Horrors of War

2006
2.9| 1h39m| en| More Info
Released: 25 March 2006 Released
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HORRORS OF WAR derives from the "B" movie, Grindhouse tradition, made to play like a like a midnight movie. It is an independently-produced film made in a B-movie style, yet with a dramatic grounding and an eye toward bigger production values.......FILM SYNOPSIS: 'Feeling the pressure from Allied advance, Hitler unleashes his secret weapons giving rise to a type of warfare the world has never seen. Throughout the European theater of WWII, Lieutenant John Schmidt comes face to face with these "weapons." The Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S., precursor to the C.I.A.) initiates missions behind enemy lines to find the source of the weapons terrorizing U.S. soldiers fighting the Third Reich. Schmidt is joined by Captain Joe Russo and his group of war-hardened GIs who have experienced for themselves the all-too-real horrors of war in battle. Together, they must find and destroy Hitler's horde of nightmare weapons before his horrific vision can be fully realized

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FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
DavidBarak Horrors of War isn't a great film, I think everyone can agree. However, there ARE redeeming qualities.Most of the acting is decent, a fair amount of the "non-fantastical" story line is a bit deeper than a lot of people realize, and the special effects are pretty darned good for a low budget film. Of course, some of the look of the film is due to the use of military re-enactors, and that adds a lot of authenticity to the film. Yes, there are shortcomings, but for a first-time feature as complex as this and with such a low budget, I'd say it was a success.This film may possibly be most interesting to budding filmmakers out there, who can see what's possible with some creativity and a lot of sweat. If you can, check out the behind-the-scenes videos online and you'll learn about some of what went in to making the film, and some of the decisions that had to be made on the fly. You really should check these videos out online if you want to learn a bit about your craft.
TdSmth5 Horrors of war isn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it's so bad in an entirely different way.It begins in Germany during the end of a war when US soldiers run into a Nazi zombie soldier. Then we are taken a couple of months back when soldiers run into a soldier who was taken captive by the Nazis. He tells if a creature that killed all the Nazis and of a man who seemed to be in charge.Lt. Schmidt is sent to investigate to France and his platoon runs into this creature that turns out to be a werewolf for some reason. He returns with a report that no one believes. Then he sent to investigate something else and this time they run into a Nazi super soldier zombie. He returns with his report and this time is sent to investigate the man who may be responsible for all unexplained events- the man the soldier saw earlier. The Lt. is joined with Capt. Russo and they don't get along. They find a factory were they run into more zombies and find the researcher responsible. In the process, a US soldier who was bit by the werewolf turns into a werewolf and fights the zombie. Then for some reason, the Americans decide there is no way to kill the zombie unless one of them takes the zombie research serum! This is a low budget movie were the production team put in an awful lot of effort, they managed to get ahold of tanks, jeeps, and tents of the era. The acting is quite good by the leads. Voice-acting is excellent. Action-acting so to speak isn't. Almost everyone looks terribly goofy pretending to be soldiers and shooting a rifle. Remarkably, all the characters are great shots with their little rifles and wipe out squadron after squadron of Nazis with machine guns, artillery, and tanks.The real problem is the story. In the behind the scenes featurette we learn that this was supposed to be an anthology of three 30 minutes stories. And it would have worked better that way. For some reason a producer made the completely erroneous decision to force the team to come up with one story out of those three. And that's why so little works here. He must have thought Nazis, werewolves, zombies, sounds good! but it doesn't, it's not a video game. A few days before shooting began, the writers were put in this bind and they just couldn't make it work. All the blame falls on the one producer. I can appreciate the effort and the acting but the story just doesn't add up.
Michael O'Keefe A war movie of a strange ilk. As if war itself isn't enough to fear. With Hitler in desperation, and an obsession with science and the paranormal...a secret weapon is needed. The maniacal leader orders a lab to create impervious super-soldiers to fight the Allied troops. The prototype zombie-like Nazi warrior attacks like a deprived animal. The American army reassigns soldiers to find and destroy the lab that created the wild eyed crazed creature. The actual war scenes fall short of looking real. With a bigger budget this movie could have been something worth remembering. The cast includes: Jon Osbeck, Joe Lorenzo, David Carroll, C. Alec Rossel and Jason Morris.
Falcon07 In my opinion if you like all the good war films, I wouldn't run to see this one..perhaps walk. The acting is bog standard, as is the script, soundtracks don't do it for me either.There is no sense of atmosphere that makes you want to keep watching unlike band of brothers, black hawk down etc etc.It was the monstrous ring figure that really made me laugh, seems like the director couldn't decide whether to make a horror or a war film, so decided to do both.On the plus side, there are bullets & bloodSorry 4/10 for me !

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