Despite the media hype that has surrounded this low budget British zombie film and its production, Colin is as conventional as similarly-themed Hollywood fayre and its countless imitators. Supposedly shot for under £100, helmer Price’s film covers its limitations adequately enough, belying modern media professional’s over-reliance on the money myth, and exhibiting some ingenuity in its fragmented, multi-perspective narrative. Unfortunately, what it lacks in budget it more than makes up for with its needy eagerness to conform to modern commercial cinema, perhaps betraying the opinions of Price and those involved.

Having produced two feature films of similar scale and budget – and been unhappy with the results – we’ve come to the conclusion that low budget film-making needs alternative processes than those offered by generally accepted film theory and guidance, not only to make the experience for those involved genuinely worthwhile but to begin a process of change throughout the mass audio-visual media. Price’s film merely buys into hierarchical conventions; exploiting the negative aspirations of its participants by perpetuating the myth that low budget film-making must ape mainstream cinema in design and execution in order for it to be of merit. It will be interesting to see whether Price’s next film, in light of the exposure Colin has given him, will attempt to address this misguidance in his work, or continue the idiotic and damaging trend of films like Zombieland (2009; dir. Ruben Fleischer), Diary of the Dead (2007; dir. George A. Romero) and Dawn of the Dead (2004; dir. Zack Snyder), to which Colin ultimately belongs.

Colin at the IMDb