I'm a gorehound who is willing to accept gore for gore's sake -- but Automaton Transfusion just struck me as a totally pointless film.

Yes, there is a lot of blood and gore, but it's nothing I haven't seen before, and what I assume was supposed to be the most visceral moment in the film came across as somewhat comical to me. I also found it somewhat awkward that the filmmakers would suddenly decide to cram a storyline in to the film with about 15 minutes to go. It's as if they set out to make a film in search of a plot but chickened out at the last minute.

I guess they did achieve their goal of making a zombie film that starts out kicking it hardcore and keeps the blood flowing until the very end, but it came at the expense of both story and character development. I only liked one character in the whole movie, and he ultimately let me down by going squirrelly at the end.

As for the ending, I have to be blunt and say it totally sucked -- a true WTF moment, and not in a good way.

This film was reportedly shot in nine days at a cost of just $30,000. That being the case, the gory special effects are impressive. It's actually too much of a good thing, though, because all the pointless bloodshed eventually ends up boring the experienced horror movie fan.

Even the title bugs me because I have no idea what it is referring to. Maybe I would have found out if I had bothered to watch the movie again with the director/producer commentary, but I really had no desire to sit through this nonsense a second time. I tried watching the making-of featurette, but after about five minutes I decided that I really just didn't care.

That pretty much sums up my view of the film as a whole -- I just didn't care. It's pointless zombie mayhem.