Colin

Plot synopsis:
Injured in the arm, Colin arrives home to the house he shares with Damien only to find it empty. While cleaning his wound in the kitchen sink, he is attacked by Damien, now a zombie. He manages to "kill" Damien by stabbing him multiple times in the head with a kitchen knife, but soon afterwards becomes a zombie himself. Now one of the undead, Colin wanders the streets of London during the onset of a probable zombie apocalypse. He acquires the usual zombie cannibal taste for human flesh but avoids conflict. While being mugged for his trainers, he is seen by Linda, his sister. That evening zombies invade a house party and kill everyone within. Colin follows the sole survivor of the carnage (who, we later discover, reminds him of Laura, his friend) before she is trapped by a madman / serial killer in his basement with a group of blinded zombies.
Linda and a friend finally capture Colin and take him to their mother's house, but Colin cannot recognize them. Linda has already been bitten by Colin when trying to save him from the muggers, and turns into a zombie, while she is reanimating she is locked in with Colin and her boyfriend and mother leave. Colin and Linda shamble away. The film also follows a cowering group of human survivors who finally go on the offensive. Led by Slingshot guy, the humans attack a large group of zombies with a makeshift grenade, which explodes near Colin, destroying most of his face. Three of the humans are bitten during the fight and are brutally killed by the rest of the group after one starts turning.
Colin survives and finds his way to his friend Laura's home, where the film cuts to a flashback to when he was still human. Arriving at the house, he discovered that Laura had trapped a zombie in the bathroom. While attempting to kill the zombie, she was bitten and died in his arms, before reanimating and biting him. He then killed her before going home, which brings the viewer back to the film's beginning.

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Review:
Quite frankly I was expecting this unknown low-budget horror to be as awful as it sounded, but it actually turned out to be the best movie of the night in many ways.
The director and main star of the film were both in attendance, and I had a chance to congratulate Marc Price on creating a damn fine little movie on what was clearly a shoestring budget.Let's get the downsides out of the way first.
Other movies in the genre have the zombies as a faceless horde of implacable eating machines, but "Colin" plucks one half-eaten face from the crowd and makes him a highly believable character.
every one of these stories gives hints of the wider chaos that must be going on, making this a very believable, and very English, zombie uprising.This is a film that absolutely deserves to be seen by a wider audience.
I can only hope that a distribution company picks it up and ensures that it gets a full release in the same way that other low budget films like Blair Witch Project and Open Water did.
It might look low budget, but script- wise this is as strong as anything being released by the major studios.If you have ever enjoyed a good zombie film, then do seek out "Colin" because it is truly a fine example of the genre.
Looking exactly as you'd expect a £40 zombie movie to look (replete with a complete disregard for cinematography, alarmingly hammy acting and plenty of unconvincing, off- colour bloodletting) Colin is an extraordinarily hard slog.
This is particularly true of its opening half hour, which is almost totally bereft of dialogue and filled with way too many ugly and aimless shots that last at least four or five times longer than they need to, without any justification.Despite the odd moderately impressive exterior shot, Colin's "story" is one constructed around the constant need to justify the shooting locations - which are all, for the vast majority of the time, someone's drab and under-lit living room.
Spades of kudos must go to the enterprising young sprouts who clearly worked like dogs to get this film made, and I'm thrilled to live in an age where filmmakers of this level can get their work seen and distributed nationally on DVD, but to be brutally honest this is film-making of an extremely sloppy vintage, and the complete lack of plot renders it monumentally, deadeningly boring.A friend of mine remarked that he'd rather sit down in front of a decade's worth of his neighbour's holiday videos than sit through Colin again.
Marc Price's ambitious independent and original zombie film shows us proceedings through the undead's perspective (the role of Colin played by Alastair Kirton).This is a genuinely moving film which contains a number of unforgettable scenes.
It's literally a camera following a zombie while it walks around town and someone occasionally gets eaten.We tried to figure out the plot but the film gives you no information about anything.
Again in 'Land of the Dead', and also 'Dawn...' and 'Day of the Dead' there was a recognisably empathic portrayal of the pilot in 'Dawn'(when he turned) and Bub in 'Day'.There's no doubt that 'Colin' is well done if the statements about the budget are correct - there are some very good aspects to the movie: the soundtrack/score; some of the make up and effects; some the acting.But this movie is really an extended student film, the cinematography is awful, the editing is okay as long as there is no more than 1 or 2 actors in scene, any more than that and it's very difficult to work out what's going on.Not to denigrate the efforts of the director, cast and crew - but this is an idea of a movie and should be seen almost as a showreel than a finished product..
Nothing happens, and though we begged for Colin to die, the director refused to put us out of our misery.This film would have been interesting as a 3 minute short, every second after that was a waste of time.The comparisons to Romero are farcical, those films capture the attention, there is nothing in Colin to do, other than the vain hope that someone will drive a screwdriver into his eyeball.I can't believe that people gave this film reviews of 10, what exactly were they smoking?
Obviously, being a very low budget film it has its technical flaws and in some cases the shaky camera work doesn't quite hit the spot that it was meant to, but none of this can take away from the quality of the story, acting and execution of this film.
There are moments of pure emotion which bought a tear to the eye of many of the people watching the film and this is all bought about by Alistair Kirtons (Colin) great ability to play with your emotion without saying a word and Marc Prices ability to do the same with the world he creates, he uses also uses music to good effect and the soundtrack of this film is very good in this regard.
This is a great zombie flick made with real passion by people who are obviously good fans of the genre and a potentially very talented film maker in Marc Price & Actor in Alistair Kirton, I have not really felt for a Zombie since Bob from Day of the dead.I Loved the score/soundtrack.
This movie is just awesome, and is what so many other horror films try and fail to achieve - its scary, its eerie, its grainily shot which adds to the eeriness and it tells a story from the different perspective, lol, i.e that of a Zombie.
It was obviously shot on a very tight budget but so many great horror films were, even so it looks good and is well acted, even tho dialogue is kept at a minimum (obviously zombies do not converse very well,lol).
Ow. After twenty minutes i had a headache from the Shaky Cam and couldn't watch much more, Sadly while i admire the fact that this got out there being a very low budget film, i cant help thinking that I know people who have been making much better films than this for there own enjoyment for years...Mr. H you know which i mean!
I don't know if it gets better as after 28 minutes I thought Bugger this for a lark and switched it off.Give me Bub (from Day of the Dead, Romero, 1985) over Colin any day!.It leaves me asking how did it get a release let alone the good reviews posted on here.As with all my reviews it is my opinion so if your interested try it just don't come to me asking for a refund!.
The success of Colin stems from the fact that it does something wholly original and tells the story from the zombie's point of view.Colin admittedly looks terrible - but when you shoot a film for the same price as a video game then that can certainly be forgiven.
Colin is a 2008 British zombie film written and directed by Marc Price.
OK I want to start off by saying I feel this movie is highly underrated and deserves a far better score, Colin is a zombie movie but rather than being just any generic zombie movie based solely around the survivors it follows Colin someone who is bitten and subsequently zombified and thats really it, we see Colin walk through the deserted streets and see through his eyes what life is like as a zombie.
I urge all fans of the zombie genre and any other genre to watch this, yes it is a zombie movie and yes it is a gory title but it should not be shrugged off as a mere action horror, its so much more, we see the human deep side of this zombie and as the movie progresses we really are able to feel for this so called "mindless zombie" and with every attack from the humans to the zombie I felt more hatred towards the humans and felt more sympathy for zombies, its rare in fact unheard of for a zombie movie to do this, this is by far my favourite zombie movie and one of my top ten all time movies now, I urge all fans of movies to see this film and not be put off by the gore or the fact that it's a low budget title..
Saw this at the Leeds film festival the other night and 'Colin' is definitely one of the more original zombie movies I've seen.
There are a couple of twisted characters, some excellent gore (at least for such a low budget) and a few surprisingly sad and poignant moments - one of the greatest things about this film is that you actually empathise with a zombie for once.
The very-shakeycam and high-contrast visuals give it a gritty, home-made feel that mostly works well with the subject matter, but too often it's also confusing and hectic, leaving you wondering what the hell just happened.It also felt too long, despite being only 97 minutes - there are plenty of scenes that could have been snipped down and as simply effective as the premise is, there's just not enough story to fill an hour and 40 minutes.
I have watched a thousand different zombie/infected films and my book and movie collection fills a full 3 bookshelves and all I have to say is this.
After so many films and after so many spins on the "undead" story I believe that this film delivers everything I ever wanted or needed out of a zombie movie.
It had heart, it had the gore, the comedy and the emotion, it had interesting and compelling characters and the films creative structure was in itself a masterful piece of art.Props to the guy who made it, I signed up just to review this movie and I hope to see more from this creator.Cheers, Rorke.
This is not the best zombie movie by a long shot, but it is highly original and shot on the supposed budget it was, it is a fascinating piece of film making.
It exists on the uncertain edge of the quasi-normal, where friends try to party anyway, and the slow, relentless, total failure of all social structures, right down to the smallest, most sacred ones.It shows the horrible, paralyzing grief you feel when you watch your bf / gf die, then multiplies that horror when their dead body wakes up and slowly approaches to bite you, eat you, kill you, and make you like they are.And it gets even worse.It shows the despair and sadness when you are forced to kill the person you love most because they either died, turned, and are slowly walking toward you; or even more horrible, they were bitten but are still alive, and you have to kill them anyway because you don't have time to watch them get sick and die.
This film's laundry bill alone would have amounted to more than that (fake blood doesn't come out of clothes by itself, you know), let alone all the other costs that are unavoidably incurred during the film-making process, no matter how cheap the production: catering, administration, travel, make-up supplies etc.Sadly, Colin's clever '£45' marketing ploy turns out to be the most effective thing about the whole film.
Despite a valiant attempt to try something different with the whole living-dead schtick, and for seriously less dosh than most low-budget horrors, most of the time the film proves to be a less than scintillating experience, the basic idea being far more suitable to a 10 minute short than a 97 minute feature.Watching recently turned corpse Colin (Alastair Kirton) slowly dragging his feet around South London for an hour and a half, pausing to contemplate road signs or traffic lights on the way, is pretty dreary stuff.
Director Marc Price occasionally picks up the pace, such as when Colin stumbles upon a house siege or a group of survivors take action against the undead (resulting in a unsettling scene where those wounded during the battle are cruelly dispatched before they can become zombies), but for the majority of the time, this is dead boring..
I don't believe this production cost a total of £40 to produce, while it does feel like the film did cost nothing to make what about the electricity costs in the edit process alone?Atrocious film to be frank, very unwatchable by the absurdly shakey hand held camera approach, needless jerky for no reason.Got to a point where I could not stomach any more, the terrible acting and camera on a spring brought me to my knees!1/10 please don't make any more zombie films..
Made in 2008 at the dawn of the whole low budget indie movie journey Colin claims to have been made for $50.
Good low budget zombie film.....
I watched the micro-budget horror film Colin this evening and i thought that it was a great film, made for just £45.
But i thought that it was a good film which shows you that you are still able to make a movie even on a very low budget.
Now we all know that most of these micro budget films the actors don't get paid, but all their expenses still cost, maybe not to the cost of the filmmaker, lets hope the people involved got reimbursed for the cost to them, which lets face it would of brought the production costs higher than £45 pounds.Even on low budget indie films you would expect the filmmakers to take care of their cinematography which was abysmal, sound was bad as was the acting.I really have nothing good to say about this film apart from Kudos for the marketing it obviously worked, but failed at making a entertaining film97 mins of my life I won't get back.
Colin is bitten by a Zombie; he dies, returning from dead and tackles what every zombie has to deal with, the living.A poor mans micro-budget zombie film that is less effective than the low budgeters Autumn (2009) and Zombie Diaries (2006).
Alastair Kirton gives a good zombie performance as Colin and the supporting cast are fine.
Nevertheless, the filming suffers from problems of most low budget movies.
You actually find yourself feeling genuine sympathy for the zombies.A lot of the hype has been about the ridiculously low budget of the film, and it holds up surprisingly well, considering.
Colin has to adjust to being a zombie & deal with all those nasty humans who try to kill him, this is his story...This English production was shot, edited, written, produced & directed by Marc Price & I am finding all the positive comments absolutely baffling as Colin is surely one of the inept & tedious films ever made.
For a start lets a get a couple of things straight, Colin is not the first film to be told from a zombie's point of view neither it is the first film to try & create sympathy for it's flesh eating undead despite what some may say.
To be fair the concept of a zombie film told from a zombie's perspective is cool but with such a low budget & very little talent on show the concept was doomed to die as we get endless scenes of Colin stumbling about doing nothing in particular.
Nobody says a sentence for like half an hour into the film, Colin doesn't speak until the very end in which he has a flashback revealing what happened at the start which should have been at the start rather than the end as it might have made us relate to Colin a bit more or emphasise with his transformation from ordinary bloke to mindless zombie.
The make-up effects are poor, there's some fake blood splashed around & some bits of meat probably brought from a local butcher for the zombies to chew on but there's no proper special effects here.Probably edited on a PC or in camera Colin really is nothing more than a home movie, & a bad one too.
Colin suffers from several major flaws (and no, I'm not talking about the zombie virus that plagues the main character - ba doom boom chish!), and these flaws undo what would have been an otherwise praiseworthy piece of indie film making.I'm not going to critique the cinematography, because at the end of the day this was a low budget indie film, and it wasn't too bad when considered in that light - however there are other problems with Colin that being a low budget indie film is no excuse for.Firstly, it's simply far too long for the story it tells - there's no way it needed to take 1 hour and 37 minutes to tell this story.
Proving once again that great entertainment is not contingent upon money or the nebulous studio production system, Colin met and far surpassed my expectations for this no-budget zombie flick.
COLIN is a British zombie film famously made on a camcorder with a budget of just £45.
The one thing which makes me not appreciate the scathing reviews of Colin is that with films which are made with such a uniquely low budget and mainly cast of people who aren't even obscure actors, it is key to try and review this film with some relativity to the fact it does not measure up in production values and acting talent.With that considered, Colin has several plus points which conventional and modern films will always lack.
The next thing you know Colin is a full flesh eating undead creature, and the rest of the film follows him in his journey to find a human victim.
It is quite astonishing that this home made film from debuting director Marc Price only had £45 budget, achieved by free extras, home made special effects and saved make-up, but it looks actually very professional, and it's fun viewing.