Colin (2008)

Our hero Colin is bitten by a Zombie; he dies and returns from the dead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse.

Director:

Marc Price

Writer:

Marc Price

Stars:

Alastair Kirton, Daisy Aitkens, Kate Alderman

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Alastair Kirton	...	Colin
Daisy Aitkens	...	Linda - Colin's Sister
Kate Alderman	...	False Laura
Leanne Pammen	...	Laura
Tat Whalley	...	Marlen - Linda's Friend
Kerry Owen	...	Colin's Mother
Leigh Crocombe	...	Damien
Justin Mitchell-Davey	...	Slingshot Guy
Dan Weekes	...	Bitten Guy
Dominic Burgess	...	House Siege - Pots
Rami Hilmi	...	Harry
Simba Ngei	...	House Siege - Umbrella
Clare-Louise English	...	House Siege
Mari-Claire Turley	...	House Siege - Powerdrill
Sarah Strong	...	House Siege - Block

Storyline

Our hero Colin is bitten by a Zombie; he dies and returns from the dead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse.

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Plot Keywords:

zombie | bathroom | slingshot | blood | basement | 

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Horror

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [Japan]

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 March 2011 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Colin - Die Reise des Zombie

Filming Locations:

Rowley Way, South Hampstead, London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$70 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nowhere Fast Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The production budget was an astoundingly low £40. Director Marc Price accomplished this by using leftover makeup, free extras and homemade special effects.

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Connections

Referenced in Böse Mädchen: Foul! Gelb-Rote Karte/Fahrradschloss/Blinde Einparkhilfe/Ladys First/Wechselnde Physiotherapeutin/Fotos für Tölpel, Trottel, trübe Tassen/Männchen im Pornoladen/Strassenumfrage/Moped/Schluckauf/Sozial- und Gewaltbeauftragte/Touri-Info (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Boorman Lake"
Written & Performed by Jack Elphick

User Reviews

Colin

All of the recent coverage of this film in the mainstream print press has inspired the expectation in many (myself very much included) that it has somehow transcended its origins as a film that cost 40 quid to make. It hasn't.

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. The finale, which bucks this trend by taking place in someone's garden, is five utterly exhausting minutes of ketchup, shaky-cam and non-stop shouting; the sheer, belligerent pointlessness of which angered me so much that I almost flung a shoe through my TV.

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.

Ditto.