Automaton Transfusion (2006)

I picked this one up dirt cheap recently and, despite having heard nothing all that good about it, wasn't totally hating on it right off the bat to be honest. There was definitely some missed potential lingering somewhere within this very low-budget zombie flick, though a few missteps toward the tail end went and killed it for me.

Some high schoolers are on their way to a concert in the city when they are caught up in an undead horde of sprinting zombies... And a house party is caught in the crossfire of this pandemic, as well...

There's really not a whole lot more plot to divulge, as "Automaton Transfusion" is basically nothing more than your standard zombie fare. It was shot quick (and shoddily...) and on an obviously minuscule budget, but contains a few decent gore sequences; namely, the bloody removal of a jaw and the extraction and devouring of an unborn fetus. Several of these scenes managed to win me over, throughout, and I was also digging the lack of humor, seeing as how I find the zom-com shit WAY more played these days than even the serious 'takes' on this particular sub-genre. However, shit falls apart around the end with the extremely forced and contrived explanation as to the zombie outbreak - of course, having to deal with secret military experiments gone haywire. Then, it all goes from bad to worse with the zombies swarming our final two survivors who, in turn, lock and load, but THEN we get a cop-out "To Be Continued"... What?? What had I just sat through, a fucking sitcom?! Not that I'm pissed that a sequel was never made, though... dipshit, finish your fucking movie! That was too much. Had it not been for that I would've deemed "Automaton Transfusion" a mediocre, watchable B-zombie movie. But they dropped the fucking ball. HARD.