War of the Dead

It's not the only Nazi zombie movie out there, but this Lithuanian-shot action horror is one of the few set during WW2. Sadly, it's also an unmemorable mess. A team of Finnish and American soldiers are on a mission to investigate an enemy bunker which housed secret Nazi "anti-death" experiments. Before long there's an ambush and we're in familiar territory with a group of survivors against waves of reanimated soldiers. Maybe. It's hard to follow what's going on.

The wafer-thin plot is mainly there to connect scenes of endless shooting and running down corridors. There's very little story, no real characters to care about and nothing's at stake. Zombie films are everywhere these days and you've got to make an effort to stand out. This looks fairly polished for a low budget production, but the big problem is that it doesn't commit. It's not serious enough to be interesting or crazy enough to be a guilty pleasure. It's just cheap. [Scotty McKellar]