Two words. Zombie Nazis. Outpost has Zombie Nazis.
By now you’ll probably know whether or not you’ll be making time for Steve Barker’s directorial debut. But floating voters might like to note that the filmmaker has fashioned a pretty decent entertainment around this winning monster marriage. With a nod to John Carpenter, not to mention The Keep, Outpost sends a team of modern mercenaries to a abandoned bunker in Eastern Europe. Once the site of ill-defined Nazi experiments in the occult, in no time the crew fall prey to undead Germans with bad skin.
Mr. Barker certainly knows how to work a scare and a popping eyeball. Fun flourishes such as a faux-cartoon illustrating the rise of Nazi Super Soldiers add to the occasion. The impressively sinister atmosphere is only slightly spoiled by a showdown that cheats outrageously. If the Nazi Zombies can transport themselves anywhere then how come they can’t get through a door?
It is, quite simply, an unacceptable breach of the code that governs the Occult Zombie Nazi movie-verse.