OUTPOST

I had been waiting for a while to watch OUTPOST, a supposed Nazi Zombie movie, a genre which tends to be hit and miss. Judging by the trailers and posters I thought this one looked quite a bit different and a little more stylish than the rest! I had no idea how right I was. This movie can hardly really be called a zombie movie at all, I think it would be more along the lines of supernatural, and the fiends are more of a ghostly origin than anything else. They don't eat people, just stab and beat them, and they cannot be killed even with a headshot, so we are on a different set of rules here! The cinematography is awesome, very grim and moody, and is full of some genuine chills. The basic premise is some mercenaries are hired to secure a bunker in eastern Europe which is in the middle of a warzone. They soon discover it is an SS bunker where bizarre physics experiments took place which resulted in some kind of Unified Field disturbance (physics students explain this please!). Upshot: murderous nazi ghosts. They discover a man still "alive" in the bunker who won't talk and is incredibly creepy. This movie definitely delivers in atmosphere and chills. This is a low budget movie of course but there is no schlock here, very classy, slick, with good acting and sets. One of the best new horror movies of it's type I have seen in a long time!
Apparently also out there is HORRORS OF WAR which is a Nazi oriented zombie film, which I will have to check out. But I gotta say its going to take a lot to top OUTPOST.