The Zombinator

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The Zombinator
The Zombinator.jpg
Directed by Sergio Myers
Written bySergio Myers
Produced bySergio Myers
Patrick Kilpatrick
StarringPatrick Kilpatrick
Joseph Aviel
Sal Longobardo
CinematographyTravis Cleary
Russ Welch
Edited byCharles Dayment
Music byTodd Maki
Production
company
7 Ponies Productions
Distributed by Shoreline Entertainment
Release date
  • December 15, 2012 (2012-12-15)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Zombinator (Dead Z in the UK) is a 2012 American horror film written and directed by Sergio Myers. It stars Patrick Kilpatrick and Joseph Aviel. Aviel plays a zombie hunter who tries to protect a group of college students from a mercenary (Kilpatrick) and the zombies that his employer has created.

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Premise

Nina, a fashion blogger, goes to Youngstown, Ohio to shoot a documentary but is caught up in a zombie apocalypse. An ex-soldier and zombie hunter, the Zombinator, appears in the city and tries to protect the citizens from the machinations of an evil corporation and their mercenary, the Colonel.

Cast

Production

The Zombinator was shot in four and a half days in Youngstown, Ohio. [1] Director Sergio Myers was in Youngstown to film a documentary for fashion website frockOn.com when he was inspired to make a zombie film. He then recruited several members of frockOn.com to help make the film. [2] Shooting took place without a script. [3]

Release

In 2012, The Zombinator was picked up by Shoreline Entertainment. [4] [1] It premiered in Youngstown in December 2012. [5] A wider U.S. release was planned for 2014. [6] It was released on DVD May 13, 2014. [7]

Reception

Craig Miller of The Mercury rated it 1.5/4 stars and wrote that it has a "likeable D-grade premise and typical D-grade execution". [8] Garon Cockrell of The Pratt Tribune wrote, "[T]his movie started off surprisingly well. But the filmmakers should have realized that the whole documentary crew conceit was just not going to work." [9] Tom Doty of The Floyd County Times , wrote, "Finally a zombie flick so dull and uninspired that it may slow down the deluge of undead straight-to-video flicks." [10] Daryl Loomis of DVD Verdict wrote, "I'm not sure that there's anything we need to see less in horror than a new found footage zombie movie." [11] Mark L. Miller of Ain't It Cool News wrote, "It feels like the intentions are there to attempt to be something different by glomming a bunch of different things together, but instead the film feels like an unfocused messterpiece." [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Zombie movie shot in Youngstown to premiere on the big screen this fall". WFMJ-TV . August 23, 2012. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  2. ↑ Tombo, Joanne (January 9, 2012). "frockOn.com Joins The Zombinator Film Cast & Crew!". frockOn.com. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  3. ↑ Hallam, Scott (May 16, 2012). "Take Your First Looks at The Zombinator". Dread Central . Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  4. ↑ Kay, Jeremy (October 24, 2012). "Shoreline Entertainment takes world sales on The Zombinator". Screen Daily . Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ Polo, Rick (November 10, 2012). "The New PhaRmacy Will Show Their Goods for Capitol Records". The Raw Alternative. Retrieved June 7, 2014. They'll also be involved in the premiere of the film The Zombinator, in which they made a cameo performance. The movie premieres in Youngstown Dec. 15-31.
  6. ↑ "Reality TV veteran, filmmaker wants to bring film business to the Pee Dee". WPDE-TV . December 27, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  7. ↑ Barton, Steve (May 15, 2014). "Win a Double Shot of Terror on DVD - Zombinator and Piggy". Dread Central . Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  8. ↑ Miller, Craig (September 13, 2013). "DVD Reviews, September 8, 2013". The Mercury . Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  9. ↑ Cockrell, Garon (May 9, 2014). "DVD Review: The Zombinator". The Pratt Tribune . Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  10. ↑ Doty, Tom (May 15, 2014). "Rental Central". The Floyd County Times . Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  11. ↑ Loomis, Daryl (May 9, 2014). "The Zombinator". DVD Verdict . Archived from the original on May 16, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
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