Kaelan Mccaffrey
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Michael Ledo
This is not a sequel to "Zombie Massacre" and if anything it is an unconnected prequel. A small band of allies are operating in rural Germany (?) where there is a doctor who creates zombies which we see about 30 minutes into the film. Like zombies, the film was lifeless if not pointless. If you watch the "making of" part of the DVD, they actually admit they didn't want to make the film and did so only because it would be an easy money maker. So the bottom line I got out of it was you had to buy the film to be de facto called a "sucker." Very disappointing. Pathetic writing. Actors-Thanks for the effort.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
Leofwine_draca
Another zero-budget zombie film, from the Italian team who made the poor EATERS. The good news is that Reich of the Dead is a lot better than that film, although still not particularly good; the problem is that the story plays things out very predictably on a tight budget, so there's no room for anything memorable or original. FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY this isn't! Instead, what we get are a couple of characters wandering around some gloomy locations and occasionally encountering some zombies that shuffle around. The zombie threat is zero as is the horror content, although this is definite a bad taste vibe going on in the way the zombies are all dressed in concentration camp uniforms - they were former prisoners experimented upon by a mad surgeon.The one thing Reich of the Dead has going for it is some surprisingly decent direction; no shaky-cam work here, just solid cinematography which makes the most of the dreary and drab setting. It's probably the best direction I've seen in a low budget zombie flick, so it's a shame it was wasted on such a non-starter of a story. Too much of the slender running time is padded out with boring conversations on the nature of war and B-movie veteran Dan van Husen barely gets a look in.
quincytheodore
If you like watching poorly acted soldiers exchanging nonsensical banters about war while occasionally shooting Nazi zombies, you might last the first act. However, if you want actually plot or coherent dialogues, you'll do better watching bloopers from any other war movie. This is as vague as narrative as it can be, even by standard of B-movie.There's basically no structure to the story at all. People would tell war stories for half of the movie, engage in obscure overly dramatic military propaganda and suddenly the shooting starts to happen. Characters pop out of nowhere and disappear altogether from the story, no one knows what happen to that one guy who was there earlier nor do they seem to care.Zombie and Nazi are mixed into the narrative, yet the soldiers' reactions are inconsistent. It's as though someone shuffles random screenplays and just tosses them together. Acting is wooden, not that the material offers anything conclusive. It's marred with vague gibberish and at times dreamy near hallucinogenic scenes. Don't expect any finesse to technical aspect either, cinematography and effect are low budget mediocrity.A lot of pretentious talk about war without war itself, it will painfully bores audience like zombie bites and by now capitalizing on zombie fevers feels like an old gimmick.
themoment-64201
The first 30 minutes nothing happened. It was a very long wait until we saw our first zombie. Then crying zombies. Then shooting shooting shooting. Then blood trails. But no shortage of gore. I just wish the characters were remotely interesting or at least had some decent dialogue. I've heard of writers being paid by the word, but this is the first time i truly believe someone was being paid by the minute.It wasn't until almost 70 minutes into the movie that anything actually began to happen, but by then, few would care... and in comes the clichéd nazi scientist who couldn't deliver a line to save his life. But let's top it all off with dream sequences that serve no purpose. "My time is precious" says the crazy nazi scientist. Based on the seemingly endless monologue, he seems to have all the time in the world.
