Its been the talk of the British horror movie community for the entire year, how newcomer director Marc Price manage to piece together a 90 minute movie and get it seen in cinemas for just 45. Using niceness and lots of cups of tea, the director managed to persuade hundreds of people to donate there time, items, homes or expertise to make the ultimate low budget horror movie.

Colin looks at a zombie invasion from the point of view of a zombie, as the movie opens Colin has just been bitten and returning to the sanctuary of his home, is then attacked by his roommate Damien. Slowly Colin changes from fully functioning human being to shuffling zombie alone in his house. From there on Colin ventures out of the comfort of his four walls and heads out onto the street in search of something.

Colin is being described and raved about as the zombie movie with a heart, circling the character of Colin from human to zombie, to victim of the human race as he is repeatedly attacked, and miraculously manages to survive a series of assaults by the zombie hating (and understandably so) human race.

Director Price has had an incredibly good year off the back of his project; his movie has screened at Cannes, Frightfest, and now enjoys selected cinema and consecutive DVD release (in the UK). The reviews of Price's movie have been phenomenal, everyone stating the guy is a genius. But like the grim reaper, I'm going to have to put a stop to this

There is a certain politeness with British people, I'm guilty of it myself at times, and this is to praise things that run against the odds. In a normal world Colin might just have got to Frightfest before vanishing into obscurity, however we have embraced this low budget offering and given it high praise, not because of what it is, but because of what it has achieved. Not only did Price manage to make the movie, he secured make up and make up artists from the last X-men movie, then he got it seen; and congratulations on Price, however the simple fact is that Colin is not a good movie.

I should add before I start that I'm sure that Price has created something better than I could have manage, and again I commend him. However I certainly would have put more dialogue and story into the movie. Colin suffers from severe lacks in understand ability, its not just that didn't get it, its that the director shifts of course and picks up side projects or storylines if you prefer that seem at times almost bunged in to fill a commitment

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