{"id":9389,"date":"2006-10-31T19:23:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T00:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=9389"},"modified":"2006-10-31T19:23:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T00:23:02","slug":"city-of-rott-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/31\/city-of-rott-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Rott (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cor1b\"<\/a>Don\u2019t be fooled, its goofy animation isn\u2019t a sign that it\u2019s for kids. This is strictly an adult affair, folks. Imagine \u201cSouth Park\u201d played with a straight face, imagine Romero\u2019s \u201cDead\u201d films without a plot, and you\u2019ll get Frank Sudol\u2019s \u201cCity of Rott.\u201d An old man is the basic hero for Sudol\u2019s zombie epic in which a new toxin discovered in water creates a citywide epidemic of flesh eating zombies that are rotting from the inside out. Armed with only a walker, which is his best friend, his means of conveyance, and his weapon, he looks around for some new loafers to help his ailing feet, but he can\u2019t stop running into those stupid zombies, and the parasites that leak from the bodies when destroyed.<\/p>\n

Sudol\u2019s film is gladly not all gimmicky, and based around a series of typical but well done Romero homage\u2019s, and rules: Stay out of the malls, don\u2019t drink water, don\u2019t wash your hands, and keep quiet. The rest is common sense. Avoid the dead, don\u2019t get bitten, and kill the worms. But Sudol\u2019s film is so shameless that it\u2019s entertaining. With awfully rigid animation, we\u2019re given non-stop gore and splatter, and well enough characterization that he keeps us watching and slumping down in our seats anxiously. Sudol strives in originality as well; an old man as a hero who kills the zombies with his walker? Who has ever done that before? Surprisingly enough, the character of the old man could have been played for comedy, but Sudol plays him with the utmost sincerity.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s intelligent, fast, crafty, and strong in spite of his fading memory and sanity. His mind betrays him in spite of his best efforts toward survival\u2014or is his fading mind a tool? All he knows is that he can\u2019t focus well enough until he finds his trusty walker (lost in an attack), and a new pair of shoes. Sudol\u2019s film is basically nothing but the old man talking to himself, and destroying zombies for a little over an hour. Normally, I\u2019d frown upon a movie with such a slim plot, but I just enjoyed the hell out of \u201cCity of Rott\u201d and every gory moment Sudol served to me. Sadly, once the second half rolls around, the film stalls and desperately clings to its own concept to attempt to stretch the film to its running time which is a little over an hour.<\/p>\n

We get to run around with Fred, but then, for no reasons at all, we\u2019re introduced to a slew of survivors struggling to find food, many of whom are offed and torn to shreds. Why do we focus on them just to watch them die gruesomely? I could never decide for sure, and even the climax where a character is re-visited still left me scratching my head as to where Sudol was going, and why he went there in the first place. The end feels an awful lot like padding, and with a shorter run time, \u201cCity of Rott,\u201d wouldn\u2019t have suffered. Not many films can have a senile old man with a walker as a hero in the middle of a zombie apocalypse and not draw it comedically, but \u201cCity of Rott\u201d pulls it off with flying colors. The gore is plentiful, the animation simplistic, and the plot slim, but it goes down smooth and sweet even if the climax is hard to swallow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t be fooled, its goofy animation isn\u2019t a sign that it\u2019s for kids. This is strictly an adult affair, folks. Imagine \u201cSouth Park\u201d played with a straight face, imagine Romero\u2019s \u201cDead\u201d films without a plot, and you\u2019ll get Frank Sudol\u2019s \u201cCity of Rott.\u201d An old man is the basic hero for Sudol\u2019s zombie epic in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[58,99,170,419,477,501,906,1087,1219,1221],"class_list":["post-9389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-animation","tag-c","tag-gore","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller","tag-zombie-apocalypse","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}