Automatons

Name: Automatons
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Released: December 13, 2006
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 43

2006

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Cinema Purgatorio | Release Date: December 13, 2006

Summary: A low-tech effects film about the horrors of war and robots. (Glass Eye Pix)

Director: James Felix McKenney

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Horror

Runtime: 83 min

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V.A. Musetto

More violent than anything Wood ever did, Automatons nevertheless has the kitschy feel and look of something he might have concocted. And I mean that as a compliment. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

The acting is flat, and the scientist's ideological speeches too bluntly designed to mirror post-9/11 rhetoric. But there's a dreamy fascination to the iconic images of machines fighting a perpetual war for the human creators they'll inevitably outlast. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Automatons is driven less by its hints of suicide bombers than by its rigorous adherence to a time when robots were played by inverted dustbins and battles were represented by dots converging on a crackling screen. This lack of sophistication is enormously endearing, leaving us with the comforting notion that the end of the world will look a lot like the beginning of television. Read full review

Michael Phillips

A mild and static attempt at sincere camp. Read full review

Andrea Gronvall

With its hypnotic pacing, blatantly nonsynchronous sound, clunky robot costumes, and graphic but unconvincing violence, the movie falls flatly between camp and art-house pretension. Read full review

Joe Leydon

An unwieldy mix of self-conscious camp and heavy-handed allegory, Automatons plays like a cheesy '50s no-budget sci-fier with serious delusions of grandeur. Read full review

Nathan Lee

Automatons is what happens when "Eraserhead" and "Tetsuo the Iron Man" bong themselves into oblivion and collaborate on a minimalist avant-garde sci-fi cheapie shot in a toolshed. Read full review

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