Autumn (2009)

In the space of a day 99% of humanity starts spewing blood from their mouths and then drops dead.  One city's frightened survivors gather in a local recreation centre, but soon fall to squabbling over whether to remain where they are on the hope of rescue, or try to get out into the country and away from the rotting piles of corpses.

That question becomes even more pressing when the corpses get up and start walking around.  I mean sure, they seem to be completely oblivious to outside stimulus and just shamble about aimlessly, but it's still seriously creepy.  And they are still rotting.

So yeah, we're now living in a post-Walking Dead world and I'm pretty sure you're all already  thinking the "Zed word" (or Zee word, if you're American).  And yep, eventually the newly reanimated plague victims begin to become aware of what's around them, and to display signs of aggression ... no surprise there.  Honestly, even in 2009 I doubt it was much of a surprise.

So yep, we're in super low budget zombie movie territory here.  But is it good super low budget zombie movie territory?  Well, I'm not sure such territory actually exists, but if it does, this is not it.  Autumn is ponderous, tedious stuff, with a human cast that show little more initiative than the corpses that "threaten" them.  The sum total of their response to the realisation that the walking corpses might be dangerous is to build a fence.  That done, they just kind of sit in a house for most of the movie.  They don't even try to secure it in any way, or make plans about how to maintain their food source, or ... well, do anything.  Not that they need to do much, since even fifteen minutes from the end of the film, it is still pretty easy for a lone human to safely shove their way through a whole crowd of zombies.

Boring.