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March 1942. Captain Martin Stone leads an American unit on a mission to join forces with an elite platoon of soldiers and destroy a Nazi bunker. But when the troops find themselves being attacked by the same enemy soldiers they had killed in an earlier ambush, they quickly begin to question who exactly the enemy is…an SS experiment gone wrong or the living dead?
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
OK - so historical accuracy and a few accents might not be less than accurate but the film is about Zombies - reality might have to take a back-seat. Take it for what is is: guns, explosions, dodgy experiments and zombies that like jumping around in the woods.
And as zombie war flicks go 'War of the Dead' is pretty good. Andrew Tiernan as Capt. Martin Stone is pretty much unkillable and I'm sure we'll see more of him ...
And as zombie war flicks go 'War of the Dead' is pretty good. Andrew Tiernan as Capt. Martin Stone is pretty much unkillable and I'm sure we'll see more of him ...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By The Soft Machine Operator
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Format:DVD
This is one of those films where the actual film-making is technically quite impressive, with some nice photography that looks like a high budget Hollywood production in what was a low budget film, but the lack of decent script and characters makes it quite difficult to watch. It's about a bunch of a soldiers who come across a bunker in which the dead are coming to life. With little suspense, awful dialogue and endless, confused action scenes with fast cutting and guns blazing and people shouting, it's a difficult one to get through. The zombie makeup is quite poor, and the zombies have a have a strange habit of posing for the camera in some very poor attempts at creating tension. There's a random love interest thrown in that is poorly written, and there are long tedious slow motion shots in amongst the endless fast cutting. At one point a zombie seems to fly.
It reminds me a lot of 'outpost', which has similar problems with a poor script!
The problem is there's no story, and it amounts to nothing more than a long action movie that feels very padded out. Whilst the film-makers have produced something that does look very good, it's a shame they didn't have a decent script to work with. Quite clearly some great talents, but not in the writing departments.
If you want to see frenetic zombie type of action movies, pick up Lambert Bava's Demons, which succeeds partly because it doesn't try to take itself so seriously!
It reminds me a lot of 'outpost', which has similar problems with a poor script!
The problem is there's no story, and it amounts to nothing more than a long action movie that feels very padded out. Whilst the film-makers have produced something that does look very good, it's a shame they didn't have a decent script to work with. Quite clearly some great talents, but not in the writing departments.
If you want to see frenetic zombie type of action movies, pick up Lambert Bava's Demons, which succeeds partly because it doesn't try to take itself so seriously!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By french bob
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Sadly its not their fault that this is quite a poor film.
Mostly shot in the dark,dialogue stilted with accents all over the place(the main charactor is supposed to be American but is a British actor!).
It is an interesting story if you like a pot of war action sequences,Nazi Zombies and tough guys in peril due to super-human opposition.All of this was marginally better done in "Outpost" and "The Bunker".
The bonus features have lengthly interviews with the director,producer and actors etc.
They are all quite young and have probably used this production as a learning curve for future work: The makings are there for something better.
On the plus side I did watch the film to its conclusion,it kept me interested enough to want to know the outcome.
Mostly shot in the dark,dialogue stilted with accents all over the place(the main charactor is supposed to be American but is a British actor!).
It is an interesting story if you like a pot of war action sequences,Nazi Zombies and tough guys in peril due to super-human opposition.All of this was marginally better done in "Outpost" and "The Bunker".
The bonus features have lengthly interviews with the director,producer and actors etc.
They are all quite young and have probably used this production as a learning curve for future work: The makings are there for something better.
On the plus side I did watch the film to its conclusion,it kept me interested enough to want to know the outcome.
By Michael
Format:DVD
In 1941, before the US entry into the war, a small group of US elites, including one Abraham Lincoln Brigade member to make it realistic, join up with some Finnish soldiers to travel 30 km. into Russia along the border in order to destroy a bunker. This bunker was used by the Germans to experiment on Russian soldiers. Our group does not know the details as they encounter killer zombies.
These are not your ordinary zombies. When we first see them they leap 10-20 ft out of trees to attack. I thought I was watching "Planet of the Apes" for a moment. They seem to have superhuman strength and stamina, although the film was not consistent in their portrayal of zombie abilities. Other times they get beat up in a fight like an ordinary human.
This is a fusion war and zombie movie that doesn't work like its counterparts. The ones that worked well were zombie movies with a war background. This one is more of a war movie that has zombie soldiers, not too unlike regular soldiers. Shot almost entirely at night.
Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.
These are not your ordinary zombies. When we first see them they leap 10-20 ft out of trees to attack. I thought I was watching "Planet of the Apes" for a moment. They seem to have superhuman strength and stamina, although the film was not consistent in their portrayal of zombie abilities. Other times they get beat up in a fight like an ordinary human.
This is a fusion war and zombie movie that doesn't work like its counterparts. The ones that worked well were zombie movies with a war background. This one is more of a war movie that has zombie soldiers, not too unlike regular soldiers. Shot almost entirely at night.
Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.
By Bio-Break
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
It dosn't have that cheep homemade look of most zombie films and the gore is good enough.
I found the plot sketchy and hard to follow at times and felt a bit left in the wind as you don't find out anymore about the old man in the cadin other than a few bit of info.
I like the old stumbling shambling slow moving zombie, but in this one they are like the zombies in the remake of Dawn of the Dead.
Fast moving with furious expressions and jumping out of trees and such.
After some of the rubbish ones I have seen lately, this was enjoyable and for £3.13 you can't complain.
I found the plot sketchy and hard to follow at times and felt a bit left in the wind as you don't find out anymore about the old man in the cadin other than a few bit of info.
I like the old stumbling shambling slow moving zombie, but in this one they are like the zombies in the remake of Dawn of the Dead.
Fast moving with furious expressions and jumping out of trees and such.
After some of the rubbish ones I have seen lately, this was enjoyable and for £3.13 you can't complain.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Undead mutant Nazis are now a cinematic cliche but this film has a chutzpah about the human action and thrills that really echo Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' and Spielberg's 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. Chuck in a bit of the drama that the original 'The Thing' possesses, this has a real talent and style about it that the recent conveyor belt of cash-for-zombies movies totally lack.
It is unfair to lump 'War of the Dead' in with all of these cheap, straight to DVD zombie movies. The director and one or two of the stars will go on to better things, I'm sure.
It is unfair to lump 'War of the Dead' in with all of these cheap, straight to DVD zombie movies. The director and one or two of the stars will go on to better things, I'm sure.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By robos
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Pleased with this DVD good price and delivery. I have watched the film and it is brilliant, exactly the type of DVD I like.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By John Milton
Format:DVD
Undead nazis are fast becoming the cinematic go-to bad guy. It makes sense combinging one of the greatest evils the world has ever seen with the menace of them returning from the grave, hungry for flesh.
One might be tempted to think this is a formula that you simply can't get wrong...
Boils and ghouls, I give you War of the Dead, billed as the most expensive movie ever to be made in Lithuania.
The film comes with the following synopsis:
"In 1939 `anti-death' medical experiments were performed on captured Russian soldiers by Gestapo officers in the opening salvos of World War II. Two years later allied Finnish and American forces are on a mission to seize an underground enemy bunker on the Soviet border - but they must face attack by a far deadlier force - the flesh-hungry victims of those SS experiments."
The trailer and the poster look tremendous and the inclusion of former World's Strongest Man Jouko Ahola, who can clearly be seen on the poster, ramped up my anticipation of this movie.
Despite being a Lithuanian movie helmed by Lithuanian director Marko Makilaasko, War of the Dead is shot in English and features Andrew Tiernan (Dead Cert, 300, Bathory, The Bunker) in a leading role alongside a largely Finnish cast.
The inclusion of English actors taking on the roles of Americans left me cringing somewhat and I find myself curious as to what our American cousins will make of this aspect of the film.
It was commented on that many of the undead aren't actually German/ nazis. This is explained in the opening introduction to the movie and ought not to give the viewer too much cause for concern.... Read more ›
One might be tempted to think this is a formula that you simply can't get wrong...
Boils and ghouls, I give you War of the Dead, billed as the most expensive movie ever to be made in Lithuania.
The film comes with the following synopsis:
"In 1939 `anti-death' medical experiments were performed on captured Russian soldiers by Gestapo officers in the opening salvos of World War II. Two years later allied Finnish and American forces are on a mission to seize an underground enemy bunker on the Soviet border - but they must face attack by a far deadlier force - the flesh-hungry victims of those SS experiments."
The trailer and the poster look tremendous and the inclusion of former World's Strongest Man Jouko Ahola, who can clearly be seen on the poster, ramped up my anticipation of this movie.
Despite being a Lithuanian movie helmed by Lithuanian director Marko Makilaasko, War of the Dead is shot in English and features Andrew Tiernan (Dead Cert, 300, Bathory, The Bunker) in a leading role alongside a largely Finnish cast.
The inclusion of English actors taking on the roles of Americans left me cringing somewhat and I find myself curious as to what our American cousins will make of this aspect of the film.
It was commented on that many of the undead aren't actually German/ nazis. This is explained in the opening introduction to the movie and ought not to give the viewer too much cause for concern.... Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst film ever
This film is so truly bad that it knocks Plan 9 from Outer Space into a cocked hat. Unbelievable that someone actually spent money to produce this twaddle. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. P. L. Spearink
2.0 out of 5 stars
Bore of the Dead
I love zombie films.
Nazi'z are currently all the rage, and I admit I have been caught up in it having recently purchased a few such movies like: Iron Sky (Great fun and... Read more
Nazi'z are currently all the rage, and I admit I have been caught up in it having recently purchased a few such movies like: Iron Sky (Great fun and... Read more
Published 10 months ago by R. Barry
1.0 out of 5 stars
crap
didn,t know if i was watching a zombie or vampire movie,did,nt know the yanks were yanks most of them had russian guns,no detail on zombies as never saw them close up and they even... Read more
Published 12 months ago by the reader
1.0 out of 5 stars
DEAD-boring
There are so many zombie movies on the market these days that i think was a complete waste of time and money. Read more
Published 12 months ago by benny1
3.0 out of 5 stars
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The Review says "March 1942" the packaging says "1941". That would have been BEFORE Nazi Germany declared war on the USA. Nice to see the reseach!!!!!!!!
Published 12 months ago by CYMRO
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