City of Rott

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.

Frank Sudol has done an incredible job of making an animated movie by himself and it looks somewhat reminiscent of a Cannibal Corpse cover throughout. I was initially attracted to Sudol's artistic style but quickly became bored because of the repetitiveness of the movie. While this would have been fine as a 5 or 10 minute short, there just wasn't enough story to fill a movie length feature and it became almost unbearably boring to watch. I'm sure there will be those that watched it with friends and maybe under the influence of chemicals, they will have found it to be hilarious or entertaining but as I watched it sober and alone, I really felt it needed to have been a short feature only.

I can't after watching this movie decide if it is either good or bad (hence the 5 out of 10) The story is just pointless and the 77 minute long movie consists of nothing but blood and gore and some slow scenes which just makes you feel really weird. I can't in any way figure out what this movie is supposed to be good for. I didn't hate watching it but i didn't really enjoy it either. It's impossible to say if this movie will be a waste of your time since i think it completely depends on what kind of person you are or just how bored you are If the creator of this movie however makes another one I'm almost certain that i will check it out. There is after all something really special about 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.