Director: David Gregory
Year: 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie
Plot:
Conducting a special raid, a squad of Allied Commandos storms a German bunker in the middle of France to investigate the disappearance of an undercover operative looking into a reported super-soldier Nazi experiment, coming across the remnants of a zombie outbreak in the bunker.
Review:
Overall, this was a fairly fun and likable genre effort. Among the better factors here comes from the strong setup that allows this one to work incredibly well with its period setup and surroundings to come off incredibly well. The idea of the Nazi government ordering the creation of this specific device to turn on the Jews in their control as a means of unleashing them on the enemy, only for the whole thing to backfire and take them out accidentally, works nicely to make this one come together for a strong starting point. The resulting mission being carried out to look into the whereabouts of a spy at the facility who has lost contact with his commanding officers but not after dropping hints of something in the bunker gets this of to a nice start as well with this offering the reason why the group is dispatched to the bunker in the first place, all of which serve nicely enough to get the group out to the facility to investigate.
The other effective element here is a series of fun zombie action and carnage within here as the group arrives at the bunker and is forced to confront the leftover zombies in the bunker. The early scenes involve the group treading through the darkened hallways, looking for strange sounds in the distance, only to come across a slew of ravenous zombie hordes shambling after them, bringing a slew of big confrontations, blasting them to pieces. An attempt to investigate their remains and figure out what’s going on means not just the opportunity to fill the viewers in on the experiments that create the zombies in the first part, but also allows the creatures to swarm and turn several members of the group. The final parts involving the escape attempt to get out of the bunker in a last-ditch effort to kill off the zombies and get to their extraction point comes together with plenty of action and cheesy violence alongside the great make-up work for the creatures, giving this enough to like about it.
There are a few minor drawbacks on display here. The main factor against this one manages to come together with a slew of obvious low-budget limitations that run throughout the film. The look and feel of the Nazi bunker is cheap and immensely flimsy, barely realistic, and comes off as a found set that’s turned into a bunker with the way everything looks pretty slapdash and thrown together, which is constantly thrown in our face because of the general setting. Even though the action is fun with the zombies coming for them, the egregiously obvious and awful CGI, where the utterly atrocious blood-spurts or fire effects for explosions engulf the area around it, looks so bad that it’s quite off-putting with how it appears. On top of the cheesy nature of this one, there’s also the weak finale where it tries to impart a bit of historical relevance into the proceedings, and it just comes off patently ridiculous to the point of being incredibly difficult to follow through on, which all make for the issues here holding this one down.
Overview: ***/5
A better-than-expected indie zombie effort, there’s a lot to like here, which is turned off by a series of slight issues which are present here that bring this one down. Those with an appreciation for the style or who are curious about it will have the most to like here, while most others out there might want to heed caution.
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