Autumn

I am a fan of zombie movies but honestly, it's been a while since i got to see a good one. This one's pretty OK but could have been a lot better:

• story evolves pretty slow, and is predictable at most points; also, the main events in the movie are poorly connected to form a smooth storyline; Also, most of the stuff seems to be happening towards the end of the film.

• acting is decent

• makeup is OK - zombies look real

• special effects are disastrous - the most advanced special effect is made by "fast-forwarding through the scene"

• Horrible SOUND!!!! it has scenes where the actors are talking but you can't hear what they are saying because of the background music that is too loud (and i'm not talking about the scenes where it is obvious that the voices have been intentionally covered by the background music).

Sometimes I watch movies with David Carradine and think it's a shame that this will be part of his legacy. This is one of those films. Not that I was ever a huge Carradine fan, but it gives you an idea of how I feel about this film. I feel bad for an actor known for largely being in mediocre-at-best films because he was in it. And even then, not for very long. Also, while I'm thinking about it, I think it's great to more away from the traditional zombie story every now and then but can we please stop pretending like this whole "everyone has a virus except for a few people" thing is new and fresh? The end result is the same as any old zombie movie so knock it off.

What you essentially have here is the old small group of survivors who band together and dig in whilst under constant zombie attack. Well...not so much attack as constant zombie presence. I will give the movie props for one thing...I liked the way the zombies sort of evolve from just being corpses to rudimentary movement to being able to actually comprehend things. Of course, that doesn't excuse a plot line that has virtually everyone in the country dropping dead simultaneously. I'm not sure what disease model they were working off of, but that would have to be one hell of a virus. And I don't normally pick on technical aspects of movies, but the audio in this was terrible. Maybe it was just the copy I had, but everything that wasn't speech sounded loaded up with reverb. It was downright distracting and, let's face it, this movie didn't need any more strikes against it.

All said and done, you've seen this same type of film done better with less. It's not awful, it just fails to really do much of anything. All of the characters pretty much fail to make you concerned about their well-being and the story itself just sort of drags along without for almost 2 hours...much longer than it needs to be. I won't say you should avoid it...that's your call...but I'm certainly not going to endorse it.

It was with some expectation that I bought this movie - yeah I actually paid money for this garbage. I had heard nothing buy praise for Moody's novel, which I also bought, but haven't read yet. And truth be told, now that I have seen the movie, I dread opening the book in fear that it will be equally worthless.

I had expected somewhat more of an ordinary zombie movie from this, I didn't really buy into the thing that was going on with the re-animated dead and how they were treated by the survivors. That was just a tad too unconventional for me.

Storywise, it seemed a bit too jumpy, and there wasn't much of a structured linear storyline going on. I actually fell asleep during the movie and ended up turning it off, as it was just that uneventful and uninteresting.

As for the cast and their acting, well most of the people were doing adequately, though the dialogue was somewhat crippling at times, and there were some performances of acting that was quite bad to look at. However, I will say that there was a very every-day-feel to the cast and the way that they talked.

"Autumn" didn't sell its goods to me on any level, it was uninteresting already from just a few minutes into it, and then it was an uphill struggle for it to get any ground and win me over. In the end, the movie lost and I gave up on it. For a zombie aficionado like myself, "Autumn" was a huge disappointment.

There are far better zombie movies available on the market, even a good handful of the low-budget movies fared better than "Autumn". It was a shame, because Moody was so praised for his novels.

It has to be said, this movie is extremely low budget that has many plot holes and there isn't anything really consistent. Where the movie shines is having characters who you don't want to die. In many few against many horror movies there are some characters you just want to die. At least within this movie you empathize with the characters. The lighting in the movie is pretty dark, giving it a home movie feel. Sometimes this works to good effect, other times less so. Still there are a few scenes where you think something might happen and doesn't and others vice versa! From the Omega Man onwards there have been movies with trained personnel taking on the living dead to individuals. Again it was refreshing not to see a movie that everyone had to be tooled up to the nines and like Shaun of the Dead you could walk among them and not always been seen as a quick snack (if you walked around slowly and quietly).

The movie is very slow paced and doesn't use montages of what is on TV or a radio to learn how to kill or not, the zombies. Additionally rather than having immediate flesh eating zombies the zombies seem to be passive at first and then violent later on in the movie. This gives this movie a different tact.

Okay, I've gone over the parts which I think it's different from others. Still, I'd say there's nothing really new within the movie. We know the story: Virus kills off billions, a few people survive and get into the country and try and live in peace. But, the zombies can find you and slowly they come in their masses! David Carodine, I have NO idea why they got him into this low budget piece. They could have got anyone to play his part and in fact it'd probably have been better if they had. Like other comments here, I thought it was painful to see him act. His role was kinda a fill-in, madman keeps zombies at bay and he's hiding a secret.

There's some very good points raised in the movie about how to survive a holocaust and what next. Still, the worst parts are found in the big plot holes. For example, sometimes the zombies move super-fast early in their development and then seem to forget that they had this ability! Next their development to eating flesh in live animals seems to again come earlier in the movie and then forgotten again.

If you'd like to see a more dynamic take on humans in zombie-land and have not seen the other likely suspects I'd give this one a try. But, if you've seen 28 days later, Romero's latest movies and maybe haven't seen this years best zombie flick Dead Snow, I'd save your money on this and rent Dead Snow!

I am generally a fan of zombie flicks, many of which are low budget and most of which will not be regarded as cinematic masterpieces. This film, however, is the worst piece of garbage that I have ever seen. I know that phrases like this are used too liberally on IMDb, so believe me that I am using the phrase as appropriately as possible.

The sound engineer must be deaf. The director (if there was truly a director) should permanently resign himself from film-making. The actors although terrible should probably not be blamed because the sense is that the script and directing sealed their fate before the first line of dialogue was spoken.

The editing is horrendous. It's so bad that in many parts of the movie, you can't really tell what's going on because of the atrocious scattering of clips.

There really is no excuse for this piece of rotting manure. Budget is not the issue. I could make a better movie than this for the price of a used lawnmower.

Skill and talent are the ingredients that are missing from the start. Money can't buy those and unfortunately for those involved in this film, they will never possess either.