Colin

Colin

Year: 2008

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: English

Director: Marc Price

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Our hero Colin is bitten by a zombie; he dies and returns from the dead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse.

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Injured in the arm, Colin arrives home to the house he shares with Damien, only to find it empty. While cleaning his wound in the kitchen sink, he is attacked by Damien, now a zombie. He manages to “kill” Damien by stabbing him multiple times in the head with a kitchen knife, but soon afterward, dies.

Now a zombie, Colin wanders the streets of London during the onset of a zombie apocalypse. He acquires the usual zombie cannibal taste for human flesh but avoids conflict.

That evening, zombies invade a house party and kill everyone within. Colin follows the sole survivor of the carnage before she is trapped by a madman / serial killer in his basement with a group of blinded zombies. Colin is mugged for his trainers and seen by his sister Linda, who rescues him.

Linda and her boyfriend take Colin to their mother’s house, but he cannot recognize them. He fights and snarls. Linda was bitten by Colin when she saved him from the muggers and dies. She reanimates locked in the kitchen with Colin. In a heartbreaking fit of anger and grief, her boyfriend beats up (dead) Colin, who just shambles away.

Another group of survivors go on the offensive. Led by Slingshot Guy, the humans attack a large group of zombies with homemade weapons and a makeshift bomb. It explodes near Colin, destroying his hearing and most of his face. Three of the humans are bitten during the fight and plead for their lives before being brutally killed by the rest of the group because they will turn.

Colin finds his way to his friend Laura’s home, where the film cuts to a flashback to when he was still human. Arriving at the house, he discovered that Laura had trapped a zombie in the bathroom. While attempting to kill the zombie, she was bitten and died in his arms, before reanimating and biting him. He then killed Laura before going home, which brings the viewer back to the film’s beginning.

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