City of Rott

City of Rott (2006) is a movie that I recently discovered on Tubi. The storyline follows an old man trying to survive a zombie apocalypse without getting infected. He needs some new shoes and food and will try to avoid both zombies and survivors.

This movie is directed, written and voiced by Frank Sudol (Dead Fury) in his directorial debut. The storyline for this picture is a lot of fun following an old man who spends all day arguing with his walker. The animation is as simple as it gets but entertaining and well done. There's a ton of worthwhile gore and I enjoyed both the the eating sequence and any time worms were involved. There's a sanitation team scene that's real good too. The dialogue is well written and better than it should be. The ending is a bit short, anticlimactic and could have been longer.

Overall, this is a worthwhile watch for horror fans who love gore and a few good chuckles. I would score this a 6.5-7/10 and strongly recommend it.

City of Rott is a home-made, animated (Flash-based?) feature-length movie set in a post apocalyptic city where parasitic worms have turned most of the population into flesh eating zombies; wandering through the streets of the corpse strewn metropolis—an old man, teetering on the edge of insanity (he holds conversations with his zimmer frame!), desperately searching for a new pair of comfy slippers...

City of Rott's creator Frank Sudol has gotta be admired for the dedication and effort required in making this gory animated movie—look at the credits and you'll see that he single-handedly wrote, drew, animated, scored, edited and voiced everything in the film—but even though I have nothing but respect for the guy, I do believe that, in turning his idea in to a 77 minute zombie epic, he chomped just a little more than he could chew.

The initially rather charming concept soon becomes very repetitive, and as much as I love me some intense carnage (even animated intense carnage), watching a crudely-drawn, senile codger repeatedly smashing heads with his walking frame soon becomes very tedious. Some fun can be gleaned throughout from the numerous in-jokes that proliferate the film (often in the form of signs/billboards/graffiti in the city), but in the end, this would have worked so much better if it had been kept to a running time of well under half an hour.

4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.

"City of Rott" is a very ambitious project, and it ultimately turned out to be quite alright in the end. For an animated movie of this type, "City of Rott" is rather entertaining.

We follow the old man Fred who is on the streets of the city looking for a pair of new shoes. Fred is not all by sound mind. And the city is filled with the walking dead, rotting corpses controlled by worms.

Now what made "City of Rott" work out well enough was the sheer amount of gore and mayhem. Sure, it is animated, but there was something oddly fulfilling by seeing Fred dispose of the zombies with his walker. And the sounds were good as well.

The story, well that was a bit under average, because it wasn't really all that believable. For two-thirds of the movie, the story does have coherency and it is semi-alright, but then at the last third of the movie, it starts to stagger and the story jumps around a lot, letting us follow different people that seemingly have very little to do with the main story. Time filler perhaps?

As for the animation itself, well the style used here is not what you'd otherwise see in Anime, cartoons from the 80's and 90's, but it is more in the likes of Flash animated movies as seen on the Internet. There is a lot of using the same figures over and over, but in overall, that was a minor flaw in the animated movie.

"City of Rott" is worth watching more than once, though years should pass in between the watchings.

City of Rott is a full-length animated zombie movie - yup, you heard right. Disney, however, it ain't.

Imagine Peter Jackson's splatterfest Braindead, only in cartoon form, and with twice the gore, and you are halfway to what City of Rott is dealing to us horror fiends.

Rott City is an American metropolis that has been wiped out by a zombie infestation of biblical proportions. Hordes (and I mean HORDES)of undead stagger around Romero style, searching for the few survivors eking out a meager existence.

Fred is a gnarly old dude, who just wants to find a new pair of slippers. His companion is his trusty walker, which talks to him. Or more precisely, it bitches at him a lot, warns him of zombie attackers, and acts as a lethal weapon against any ghoul who dares to mess with Fred.

This is Fred's story.Poor guy just wants some quality footwear and to be left alone.

City of Rott is funny, trippy and very, very, gory. The animation is kind of basic, almost South Park style in its execution. It's the artwork itself that is incredibly striking - uniquely stylised and full of over-saturated colours and grotesque creations. It's unlike anything I've seen before, and all the better for it.

Rott is a whole bunch of fun. The humour is sublimely weird, and the setup strangely fresh in such a tired genre. The holocaust has been caused by nasty little parasitic worms, that arrive one day in rainfall. They kill the host, reanimate them, then set them on a search for more food to sustain them. There turns out to be more than one type of worm, which leads to an interesting plot twist.

The movie has its problems. Its 70 minute runtime suffers from padding and repetition, and it has more false endings than Lord of the Rings. The ultimate conclusion, in fact quite a bit of the 'third act', went over my head. Maybe a second viewing will clear things up.

Ultimateley, though,City of Rott is a triumph of sheer gruey imagination, and was put together pretty much by one guy. I hope we get to see more.

As someone who generally can't get into anime because of the over the top humor, and clichés, it's rare and refreshing to find an adult animated horror film made outside Asia, that delivers bloody zombie carnage that I cherish so much. Unfortunately this film has several faults that bog it down. First the good- Seeing an elderly man dispatch the living dead in bloody and inventive ways mostly with his trustee walker ( which talks to him by the way). The Bad- The story really falls apart towards the end, and for the last twenty minutes or so the film just kind of wanders around like it has no idea where to go.

I hate to give the film an average rating, but ultimately the last part fell apart, and I really thought the dialogue could have been a little more clever and humorous. I'll give the film a very generous 7 out of 10, because this type of film is very rare for guys like me who aren't into anime.