Mark (Aspen) is a writer and field investigator who is in the woods collecting samples (for what?) when he finds a dead guy and a seemingly wounded girl in a little cabin. He intends to help the girl, but the girl is a zombie so she bites him in the neck and he falls into unconsciousness. When he awakes Mark tries to come to grip with what's happened to him and discovers he is slowly turning into a zombie himself. He tries to keep his mind together, though, and documents all his observations about his physical and mental state into a tape recorder. But the urge for human flesh and blood grows bigger as he gets sicker and he starts to kill people to stem his pain. All through his misery and decay he yearns for the girlfriend he has left at home.

I Zombie is the typical underground gore piece, enthusiastically shot on video around various locations in and outside London. As always most of the creativity has gotten into the gore and make-up effects which are colorful and fair enough. The story itself is way too slow and pretentious with long parts of nothing particularly except the guy sitting in his room feeling sorry for himself. Director Parkinson describes his film as "a sub-man's thirty-something coming-of-age story", but it's really only a movie about a guy turning into a zombie. It delivers the gore frequently, but requires a steady finger on the fast-forward button in between.

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