This flick is a nice little find in the Instant Netflix queue. Thanks to horror aficionado Scott Phillips for the recommendation.
This bad boy is an odd bird. It is a period piece, set in WWII. We follow a group of Russian soldiers as they patrol the countryside and eventually go looking for some of their comrades who seem to be in trouble. This flick is also a found footage movie. It takes a bit of suspension of disbelief to buy that the (english speaking) Russians would cart around a film camera on all of their misadventures. Also, there is no mention of sound equipment, so that'll bug you a little bit now that I've pointed it out. There are other little historical inconsistencies with the plot and logic of the show, but as the flick progresses, we forgive these problems because, well, the payoff is worth it.
I won't get too far into it because I imagine that most of you haven't yet seen this flick, but, let's just say that the soldiers stumble into a factory of tortured humanity where a descendent of Frankenstein has been funded by the Third Reich to bring their two talents together. He is delivering the goods!
The back half of this movie plays like a first hand document of someone roaming around the best f**king haunted house ever created. The gore is plentiful, the monsters impressive, the dangers many and bloody. Enjoy!
(One note: I think that it is awesome that the Nazis were so unarguably doing evil shit, and we find out more and more weird stuff that they were looking into all the time, that a movie like this actually almost seems conceivable. Boy those Nazis are villains. And when you throw Dr. Frankenstein into the mix, forget about it!)
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