Outpost

Well well well, What a pleasant surprise. Turns out this little zombie flick I past up so many times before is pretty darn good. Now some may immediately think "Dead Snow rip off" but in fact this flick dropped the year before Tommy Wirkola's fine film and the similarities end at the look of the nazi zombies. There's no tongue and cheek in this one. Directed by Steve Barker, Outpost is a dark, bleak tale of a group mercenaries hired as guides into no mans land to find a WWII bunker. What they find is the result of strange nazi experiments, zombies. These zombies are unique though. Dont want to give anything away but there is definitely a cool twist to this story. Dark, low budget, and devoid of CGI, I quite liked Outpost.


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Dead Snow

The Zombie Genre is Saturated as all hell these days and its always nice to see somebody spin it in a different direction. Thats exactly what Tommy Wirkola has done with Dead Snow.   Although the whole group of teenagers out on a camping trip scenario is played out like a motherfucker, Dead Snow brings a new flavor with its stealth Nazi Zombies. These snarling combat tested undead fiends are a far cry from the shuffling Romero/Fulci zombies or even the wild running zombies of 28 days later. They are organized soldiers, not only out for flesh but treasure as well.Oh, yeah and they have knives & shit too. I actually cared about the campers suprisingly. There is definitely some funny banter.I honestly felt for the fat horror movie nerd has his head was pulled apart whalst his brain flopped onto the floor. Its always good to get enough time to give a shit about the characters before they start getting dismembered. The film flows well and pays off big time. There some really satisfying battle scenes, lots of exploding heads, stabbing, eye gouging, drawn and quatering & the scaling of a cliff face with nothing but a single thread of nazi zombie intestine. Yup. Easily the best Zombie Flick I have seen in years. A man Hacks of a bitten forearm for fear of infection only to be bitten in the penis immediately afterwards for christ sakes! Bloody genius. Props to director Tommy Wirkola, hope to see more from ya!

A+