Product Details

• Actors: City of Rott
• Directors: FSudol
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Unearthed Films
• DVD Release Date: February 12, 2008
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000G5R97Q
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #101,595 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "City of Rott" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Review

I cannot recommend this DVD enough. --Dread Central

Product Description

Fred, an old man mysteriously losing all touch with reality, clutches his walker tightly as the moans of worm-infested zombies draw closer. Suddenly, from behind the alley dozens appear. Quickly, Fred lifts his walker and wages into battle, bludgeoning as many mindless dead that dare stand in his way. Having survived numerous attacks, Fred continues on his mindless quest to find a new pair of shoes. Yes, a pair of shoes. He's crazy, and has lost touch with reality in his self-destructive mission, driving him into the dead heart of the City of Rott. Soon, he meets up with a beautiful nurse, a gun-toting fighter named Jon, and another strange old wanderer, who all determine Fred is definitely out of his mind, leaving him once again to fend off the parasitic zombie plague alone, in the worst place on earth... The City of Rott. The zombie casualties are too many to count in one of the first Animated Zombie Gorefests on DVD, City of Rott. Blended with a twist-filled but simple storyline, bucket loads of zombie mayhem and gore, and developed characters, COR will thrill Zombie-goers like never before.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 10 buckets of gore please... and a side of mashed brains with that., August 28, 2006

By	QuickSilverSeven (USA) - See all my reviews

This is an animated zombie movie (not many of those) with loads of bloody gore about an old guy beating the "living dead" out of zombies every chance he gets. Seems like 3/4 of this cartoon is just a stream of nonstop zombie deaths and zombies eating. Characters pretty much serve the purpose of being lunch for the dead, being ripped apart left and right in a blood drenched display.

The story reminds me of the anime Vampirehunter D, but instead of a talking hand, he's got a talking walker to dispatch the dead with. Sure an old guy's not as cool, but he makes up for it with his actions. The plot is slim, as City of Rott clearly puts the zombie-action first. The animation could've been better and there are slow parts, but the serious gore level makes up for it. Things get strange near the end, but it's one brutal zombie cartoon.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic idea, but the execution is a little off., May 11, 2007

By	Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

City of Rott (Frank Sudol, 2006)

I'll warn you up front: in order to explain my rating of this movie, it's going to have to spoil the major plot twist. Therefore, if you have any intention of seeing this movie, I warn you: stop reading RIGHT NOW.

Okay, now that everyone else is gone, the first thing to note: I was unaware (presumably, if you're considering buying it, you are not) that City of Rott is an animated movie. Yes, folks, cartoon zombies. How cool is that? Well, kind of. But it does get repetitive after a while. Fred, our main character, dodges zombies, kills zombies, meets other survivors, watches them get killed, dodges zombies, kills zombies... you get the idea.

Where this movie could have made a right turn to greatness was halfway through. Exactly halfway through. You see the pivotal scene, and you ask yourself "okay, this movie's only halfway over, what are we going to do for the next forty minutes?" The answer... we follow Fred around as a zombie. Now, I'm not one hundred percent certain about this, but I'm relatively sure no zombie movie made to date has followed its main character around both as a living creature and as a zombie. The very concept is brilliant. Unfortunately, Sudol-- who's pretty good at making shorts-- is not the guy to do it in a full-length movie. The Fred-as-zombie half of the movie quickly becomes as repetitive as the first half, and we're pretty much back to square one.

But someone needs to take this concept and run with it, and Sudol gets serious points for coming up with the idea in the first place. ** ˝

1.0 out of 5 stars Newgrounds Flash Animation Style And A Repetitive Film Makes For A Boring Watch, October 28, 2009

By	Matt Layden "TheUsualSuspect" (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

An elderly man and his trusty walker go in to City of Rott looking for some new slippers. There's only one problem, the city is overrun by blood thirsty zombies. What follows is a gore hounds dream, animation style.

What made me watch City of Rott? Well, I was attracted to it by it's cover. A cartoon zombie flick with it's main star wielding a walker. I was kind of reminded of Bubba Ho-Tep, in which the Kinf of Rock and Roll fought against the King of The Dead. I have never heard of COR, but being a fan of horror films, and being intrigued by the cover art, which is unfortunately one of it's few highlights, I bought the flick and watched it immediately. There are some elements in COr that work, but the are few and far between, much of it a a repetitive mess. Then again, what can you expect from a film that was made entirely by one man.

Frank Sudol or "FSudol" brings us a film that he wrote, directed, animated, edited, composed, produced, so on and so forth. With it's Flash like animated style, that one would find on such web-sties like "newgrounds" it stands out among other animated films, but it's unique style may put off a lot of viewers who aren't really ready for the basic animated style. Although the detail on the character are quite good and comedic. I was surprised with the variations of zombies that I found in COR, I was expecting the same face to pop up every now and then.

The main character, Fred, is alone, unarmed and going insane. Looking for a pair of slippers may sound humorous, but it wears thin after the film starts. After a few chuckles here or there, the rest of the film is not really all that funny. With the comedy not working in this film, there is really only one more thing that it can rely on. It's the gore, and the film features plenty of it.

The unrated COR features an abundant amount of blood and gore. Not only do zombies get shot in the head, but they get impaled with spikes, ran over by cars and decapitated by...yup you guessed it, Fred's walker. Fred uses his trusty friend as a weapon to kill the undead. Along with Fred there is a nurse, who quickly becomes a zombie, a random civilian with guns to randomly shoot zombies and another old man, who coincidentally carries the cure to being a zombie.

These aren't your regular day to day zombies, this time it's parasitic worms that infest the decaying bodies. It's a new way to spin the zombie tale that could work for a feature film, but here it doesn't seem to flow very well. COR would work very well as a short, but it drags on way too long and crawls pass the finish line. After Fred gets bitten by the zombies the film becomes rather pointless. The only reason for the film to go on like this is for Fred to get the cure, so you know what will happen. Basically the entire film is watching cartoon character beat the living crap out of these zombies. While it is all in good fun, much like the final scene in Dead-Alive. It becomes repetitive in the first 30 minutes, and you are asking yourself if anything new will ever come up.

I will give Frank Sudol credit for it being a one man show, it has great blood and guts and a unique animation style that could work as a short film, but COR becomes very boring, very fast. Frank, get more people on the same crew with you, put more time into the production, more then one year, and then come back with a film that will knock our socks off. There is potential here, but it's taken in the wrong direction. Which is a shame, cause the cover art is really kick ass.