Soldiers of the Damned

Moviecut—Soldiers of the Damned

1944, Romania. A group of German soldiers is tasked with taking a scientist into a forest that is believed to be haunted. This movie started well, as a decent war movie. Good action scenes, with a decent degree of accuracy and grittiness. However, over time the movie degenerates from a war movie into a horror movie and becomes at best mediocre. Quite silly towards the end. A pity. If they had left it as a conventional war movie it could have been pretty good.

Hammy acting, weak story line, clashing accents. Wish I could unsee it.

Forget the complaints about British accents on German soldiers, forget the complaints about Indian tomahawks being wielded by a German with alleged native American blood (untermensch anyone?), forget the fact this is low budget. The movie is a dreary, disjointed load of garbage simply put. The acting is wooden and cliched and, whilst the actors are dressed appropriately for their roles, their actual way of wearing said uniforms or behaving around weapons is amateur at best. One gets the feeling that their 'military & technical advisor' was a pre-teen who had played CoD WW2 on campaign mode. Add to this, a high school drama club production team and cast and you have the perfect recipe for utter tripe. This hasn't got a cute twist, a solid performance by any cast member, an interesting storyline or anything else to hold the viewer's attention. Those suggesting there are little nuances to explain the plotline must either be working for the production studio or have a plentiful supply of hallucinogenic drugs. This is 'old school horror / sci fi'. The is immature, hackneyed dross.

There are a lot of mixed reviews about this. I don't think it deserves a 10, but it doesn't deserve that low of an average so I'm trying to help. I've never seen a world war 2 movie made by an allie power in perspective of the Germans and found it really interesting to see. Even with this, they manage to show hatred amongst the SS and typical German soldiers. I'm not going to go into details, but a couple warnings before watching: one guy is native American and is killer with a tomahawk, note that there are two SS soldiers, and keep track of all the characters because they all look alike but it's very hard telling them apart when they are in uniform.

On the surface, the movie seems like a youtube quality fan film made by a group of friends with a good idea. The effect is hilariously bad and ruin the tense atmosphere that the movie desperately tried to build. The pacing is either too slow at the beginning or too fast toward the end once the mystery is unraveled. The story leaves much to be desired since there are plot point that are out of place or completely useless (i.e. the romantic scene). There is an excess of character that are so lack in distinguishing features and personality which made it hard to remember who is who and who mattered. But among the horribly written cast of characters, a few stood out, and that was the reason why I watched the movie for its entirety. Praises must be given to the actors since they really delivered a strong performance however stereotypical. For example, the stereotypical image of a Nazi commander is of a proud and cold monster in a man skin, with distinctive gestures, head movements, and a almost believable german accent (which is one thing I can appreciate since the everyone have a british accent). Would I recommend the movie? Absolutely not. However, there is a good chance that if one stumbled across this movie, they might be able to enjoy it at their own leisure.

I rented this movie from Sky and to be honest if there has ever been a bigger waste of 99p I can't think of it. Paper thin plot, dreadful stilted acting and a script that would disgrace a masturbating teenager. Pathetic special effects, laughable editing, a different colour every shot. Worst of all the direction. I do not know when I have seen worse direction in a film. I know this is low budget stuff, but surely there must be better projects for people to throw their money at? I just read that it won an award in Marbella. Perhaps they felt some sympathy for it. I didn't. It was a waste of 99p and 99 minutes of my life, neither of which I will get back. I can't believe the director will get another script. Perhaps he will, I shall certainly look out for his name and that of the writer- specifically so that I can keep their next straight-to-bargain-TV release at several arms' lengths.

Never been so surprised to find this many idiots rating a movie. I'm not going to read the nonsense. But without looking I have a couple ideas. Glorifying war, that many of the Nazi's were noble hero's that knew what the atrocities that people were doing under the banner of Germany. The core of the story has been told many times some better and a few that were worse. The acting was excellent and the SS major was superb and the tension between regular army and the SS soldiers was believable. Who would live and who would die was not easy to predict and even who was truly evil was equally hard to guess. Your told the reason for the mission but as they go to complete the mission things happen that are a mystery to the soldiers as well as the audience. I'm kidding about reasons why people didn't like it but if you don't like horror or war movies pick something else.

I just watched this on Amazon Prime and I appear to be the 12th reviewer, so I'll offer some viewing tips. In short, when one group enters a haunted forest to reclaim a supernatural relic for Hitler's occult researchers and goes missing another group is sent in. We learn why they want the relic and some nasty stuff about the SS, too. First of all, the movie's story-line is fine if you've ever read old science fiction: people can appear to be killed in one place/time yet become part of another place/time with knowledge of the first. But you won't always see that played out as soldiers have to make split-second decisions to shoot now then talk later (but maybe no one's left to hear, or you have a reason to hide what you know). Ignore the anachronisms. You're not going to find an adviser for historical accuracy on a small budget, so why worry? Spoiler: The soldier with the tomahawk has some Native American blood, so he has the weapons and expertise to use blades as killing tools. It is explained, but other reviewers apparently missed that conversation. Most importantly, you absolutely must pay attention to the little clues along the way or you'll miss something hugely important. Now that the boards are gone and no questions are being answered in the FAQ I'm hoping more reviewers will chime in with spoilers and tidbits of helpful info. Remember to tick the box if you don't want to see spoiler reviews.

This movie is Horrendous. One could not write a spoiler for it because there is no substance to write about in the first place. Script is terrible, Acting is terrible and plot is terrible. What more is there to say. Nothing. I would suggest avoiding this movie like the plague. I am only adding this text after the word nothing because the review was too short.