
This is a movie set during WWII and involves Captain Stone and a platoon of American and Finnish soldiers on a mission to find a bunker held by the Germans. On the way there they come under fire and at the same time run in to some German soldiers that seem to be "undead". How is this possible? Their platoon is almost completely killed off apart from a few of them, including Capt. Stone. They move on and run in to another survivor, a Russian soldier. They all try to survive an... (Full plot summary below)
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This is a movie set during WWII and involves Captain Stone and a platoon of American and Finnish soldiers on a mission to find a bunker held by the Germans. On the way there they come under fire and at the same time run in to some German soldiers that seem to be "undead". How is this possible? Their platoon is almost completely killed off apart from a few of them, including Capt. Stone. They move on and run in to another survivor, a Russian soldier. They all try to survive and end up at the bunker they were meant to take out. But once inside they find out just how the German soldiers became the "undead".
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| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordThis is a zombie film with little to no gore. It's an in and out mission with no suspense or scares. "War of the Dead" is simply an exercise in filmmaking. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin Clifford...the filmmakers try to tie the loose ends but do not always succeed, making the film feel hurried getting to its conclusion. |
| Movie ChambersPaul ChambersPlenty of bullets are fired. But, "War of the Dead" is really lacking the gore necessary for even an average zombie flick. |
| User ReviewJason BAn all out Nazi bloodbath, throw in the fact that there zombies and it's one of the best films EVER!!!! |
| User ReviewFavio VEmpezando a ver películas de terror ya que se acerca el 31 de octubre. U n grupo de soldados finlandeces acompañados por un americano van a destruir un fuerte ruso, pero al entablar una batalla con unos soldados rusos se dan cuenta que los soldados asesinado regresan a atacarlos otra vez. |
| User ReviewGary CA squad of Finnish soldiers aided by an American Special Forces unit discover a Nazi bunker containing an experiment designed to reanimate the dead. The WWII zombie film has been attempted a few times now and this Finnish backed project adds little to the sub genre. Frustratingly, once again the "zombies" are not of the classic Romero type, but the hyped up, gymnastic variety and so come across more as dim-witted vampires than shambling, undead corpses. The weak, half-hearted dialogue and characterisation also do little to add to the mix leaving War Of The Dead a largely plotless exercise in extras dressed in army surplus leaping out at the cast in darkened woods and corridors. The production value actually isn't too bad for such an obviously low budget film but the acting is suspect and director resorts to meaningless slow motion at every opportunity instead of injecting any kind of drama or suspense. The likes of Dod Sno, Outpost and R-Point have covered this ground before and this film can't even match their level of mediocrity. |
| User ReviewSimon P"Like an episode of Band of Brothers with zombies" says the quote on the front of the DVD case. Overstating it somewhat, I'm afraid. At least this film has a plot and - shock horror! - Nazi zombies! Cue the usual excessive number of head shots and, intriguingly, an equally excessive number of fistfights with zombie Nazis. Yeah, that was an odd thing to acclimatise to. Zombies look good, there's a bit of production value but it's not nearly amusing/serious enough for it to be rated any higher - the main issue here is the script, it's trying to be Outpost but falls well wide of the mark. I'm happy to report however that this is another film with a Rickman-style plummet from a vast height, so I can't really grumble too much. |
| User ReviewDave RYa wasn't very good movie kind of boring movie sure had lots of action but just couldn't get into it that well |
| User ReviewVlad CThis is not top of the class but it is good fun for what it is...for fans of the genre. |
| User ReviewMarc LDes soldats finlandais. Allemands. Soviétiques. Et même un Américain dont on se demande un peu ce qu'il fout dans le nord de la Finlande en 1941. Un bunker paumé dans la toundra dans lequel les Nazis se livrent à leur éternelles expériences pour créer une armée de zombies. Et du coup, des zombies des nationalités précitées qui vont se mettre à grouiller partout. Au cas où vous ne vous en doutiez pas, tout ce beau monde va s'étriper joyeusement autour et à l'intérieur du dit bunker, les rivalités politiques s'effaçant devant la nécessité de s'unir face à la menace commune (c'est beau, hein?). A part des bastons visuellement pas trop merdiques, pas grand chose à sauver dans ce 'War of the dead', insignifiant apport finnois au zombie-flick. Non seulement la photographie est si sombre qu'on ne distingue pas grand chose la moitié du temps, non seulement les dialogues se résument à deux ou trois accolades viriles entre militaires, non seulement il faut attendre que les acteurs soient zombifiés pour qu'ils offrent une interprétation correcte...mais surtout, 'War of the dead' ne propose rien qu'on n'ait pas déjà vu, en beaucoup mieux, dans n'importe quel autre film de zombies. |