Autumn

October. 24,2009      R
Rating:
3.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The virus came so fast no one had time to prepare. Before the day was over, entire towns were decimated, and large cities became monumental tombs. Left with nothing but fading hope and the will to live, reclusive software consultant Michael (Dexter Fletcher) and temperamental mechanic Carl (Dickon Tolson) lead a small group of survivors into the country in hopes of riding out the coming winter. But now the decaying victims of the plague are reanimating, growing more smart and vicious with each passing day. Now, the only hope for the survival of the human race is Phillip (Carradine), a man who refused to leave the city, and has somehow avoided becoming food for the flesh-eating masses.

Dexter Fletcher as  Michael
David Carradine as  Philip

Reviews

Actuakers
2009/10/24

One of my all time favorites.

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PiraBit
2009/10/25

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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Jonah Abbott
2009/10/26

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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Fleur
2009/10/27

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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Andy Clark
2009/10/28

Having read the entire Autumn series previously, I was extremely nervous when this appeared in my Netflix queue. I was hot/cold on the books, and I felt the pacing was very poor in the books. I was also afraid because most book to movie projects just completely go in a different directions.Unfortunately for this movie, that part of the books carried over.That being said, the good parts of the book also carried over into this movie. You actually care about the living characters and I really didn't find that I felt there was one that i just wanted to die immediately.Unfortunately, it's pretty much a snooze-fest. Worth taking the time to watch once (I would definitely recommend the books to any zombie fiction fanatic), but after seeing it once I haven't really had that urge to watch it again.Honestly though, if you skip this movie, you aren't missing anything. It really is only here for fans of David Moody's book series.

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Mattie Nyte
2009/10/29

I love movies, especially ones with zombies. But this one was almost hard to sit through. It was like a long BORING book. The story was great. It is hard to be original with zombies, but I thought this one was pretty different.Not many people got eaten. WHICH SUCKS! I really just think the way it was filmed was terrible. A lot of the movie was so dark you couldn't see anything. Other parts, the camera was shooting around so fast it was like a blur. And then the worst of it all(minus sound quality) were the random tints and noises. I made a few home videos when I first got my camera and editor software... This was like that. They were trying way to hard.Acting was good though! And like I said, good plot. Just not portrayed very well on camera. I would be mad if it was my movie.Wont recommend, but I also won't say not to watch it. If you have free time you don't mid wasting, why not? =)-Mattie Nyte-

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B M
2009/10/30

...many of the Hollywood adaptations of novels, both good and bad, don't do a descent story any justice, this is just another sad addition to that list. "I Am Legend" is another film disappointment taken from a great novel. I admit, I did enjoy Dexter Fletcher's performance, he was a likable character, however, he could not save this film, low budget or not. There's poor directing, poor makeup/special effects, sub-par acting, shoddy camera-work, poor lighting, etc. The novel tells a good story of survival in the wake of this plague, which kills everyone in seconds, except a handful of obviously-immune survivors. Now they have to somehow survive and make a new life for themselves. What could'vie been great action scenes from the novel were left out of the movie, and one of my biggest horror-movie gripes is nobody ever seems truly terrified. In the beginning of the movie, they're all seated in the community center as if the lights went out, there's no crying, no hysterical women, nothing -- they all seem to be bored. No panic whatsoever, where's the emotion?The walkers seemed to be covered in mud, that was the extent of the makeup, Zack Snyder's "Dawn of the Dead" had phenomenal makeup, receiving 10 of 10 in that category, by comparison, this movie would get a 2 out of 10, it wasn't believable. The fence they put up in the book consisted of farm equipment and wood and anything else they could find, even building up the banks of the stream to keep the walkers out. In the film they used something my 2 and 9-year old could knock over, and here they supposedly have hundreds of walkers leaning on it. Well, in the book there's hundreds, in the film they're lucky if they have fifty. I could go on and on, but there's too much to say, I enjoyed the book, but the movie, not so much...no suspense, hardly any action, too many negative aspects (directing, acting, etc.) The escape in the end wasn't even as exhilarating as it should'vie been, the walkers looked more like paparazzi than walking corpses. I think 3 out of 10 is a bit generous too.

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Michael O'Keefe
2009/10/31

Steven Rumbelow's screenplay is intensely dark and disturbing. David Moody directs this apocalyptic shocker about a virus that has decimated the world's population in monumental fashion. The cause is unknown, but the few human survivors have nothing but fleeting hope and fervent will to live. Decaying victims start reanimating and growing more vicious daily. Of course the zombies don't just bite...they rip and feast. A small group of survivors led by Dexter Fletcher have hopes that the coming winter will freeze the flesh eaters out. A lone hermit survivor(David Carradine)may be the answer to saving the human race. The undead are becoming more intelligent and hungrier; and it is getting harder to not become food for the rotting masses. Some interesting camera angles and extremely gory images. Others in the cast: Dixon Tolson, Lana Kamenov, Tricia McMurtry and Anton Brejek.

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