Directed by:
Steve BarkerScreenplay:
Rae BruntonCinematography:
Gavin StruthersComposer:
James Seymour BrettCast:
Ray Stevenson, Julian Wadham, Paul Blair, Xuki Robeli, Scott Peden, Charlie Jeffrey, Graeme Temple, Richard Brake, Michael Smiley, Brett Fancy, Enoch FrostVOD (1)
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As war ravages Eastern Europe, a battle-hardened team of mercenaries sets off on a mission, facing an enemy powerful and evil enough to turn these violent, seemingly indestructible men into quivering victims. Surrounded by hostile forces, they fight their way to a half-century-old underground Nazi bunker, a place where soldiers were experimented on to create a super-human army. The mutilated remains of those soldiers still exist along with a ghastly discovery - a survivor. Then suddenly, the men are attacked by primeval, horrific forces, protecting another secret - a nightmare they and the entire world will now have to face. (Umbrella Entertainment)
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What would work well as a crazy Rodriguez-style grindhouse comedy-splatter flick is presented as a deadly serious horror movie. Ed Wood’s films are “great” because of the way they are filmed and what happens in them – his filmmaking ineptitude together with his infinite naivety is so great that it enchants and hypnotizes. Outpost is fairly passably filmed, in some places it is even a thrilling B-movie, but at the same time its story is the epitome of childishness and naivety. And that is a deadly combination. The most frightening thing about it is the fact that some viewers might take it seriously.
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What a big surprise this film was! Since I didn’t know much about it beforehand, during the first twenty minutes I was pleasantly curious about what would happen next. And what a joy it was to see that someone had finally fulfilled my wish and chose the topic of Nazi experiments, one that offers innumerable possibilities for the horror genre. The entire film is permeated by a good atmosphere and there are even some effective jump-scares at the beginning. Most of the story takes place in an abandoned underground military base, which helps a lot. Outpost joins the group of successful new English horror, it has many elements of it, like the cold northern rawness of Wilderness, for instance. Recommended, 65%.
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An uninteresting horror B-movie that wastes a good premise in the most reprehensible way. Just the mention of Nazi experiments sends a chill down my spine while I imagine the most depraved and cruel of human actions, but Steve Barker, despite having a story with an interesting idea and a clearly stated goal, failed to put half as much of a horror face on the material as I would have expected. The first two acts are uninteresting and tedious, but at least they keep the viewer's attention thanks to the growing anticipation towards the key twist, which is spiced up by a few interesting deaths and one surviving “guinea pig". But as bored as I was throughout the film, I found the ending utterly annoying and watching the mindless shooting of an army of immortal soldiers was a major screw-up from Barker after the carefully constructed atmosphere. Disappointing, with the exception of Brett's pretty good score there really isn't much worth mentioning.
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"The Death Bunker" is not a film that utilizes the theme of Nazis so brilliantly, there are certainly better films in terms of the horror genre (such as "Dead Snow", maybe because it is more comedic), but I still think that "The Death Bunker" is a good movie. Although it doesn't stand out from the average, it is a British horror that entertained me, where I felt that it was not just an attempt to quantitatively contribute to the genre.
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