1944, Romania. A group of German soldiers is tasked with taking a scientist into a forest that is believed to be haunted.1944, Romania. A group of German soldiers is tasked with taking a scientist into a forest that is believed to be haunted.1944, Romania. A group of German soldiers is tasked with taking a scientist into a forest that is believed to be haunted.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Watching this movie is like being forced to watch the amateur project your friends who are into reenactment made during a weekend in the wild: you're mildly curious but mostly very bored and slightly suspicious of the guy who plays the SS, why is his character going for the madman route?
If someone were to ask me what Soldiers of the Damned is about all I could think to say is "damned if I know".
Lets start off by saying the acting is good, the sets are good, the general premise of this film is good. Where this B grade film falls down very badly is in the storyline department.
I had assumed as the film progressed the threads would be drawn together and we would gain some insight into the inexplicable events that take place. This however, is not the case. The result for the unfortunate viewer is one of those "what the...." moments. As in, what the hell did I just waste my time watching?
This is an incoherent, borderline silly film. Its watchable but the lack anything like a finale/conclusion is a substantial shortcoming. Four out of ten from me.
Lets start off by saying the acting is good, the sets are good, the general premise of this film is good. Where this B grade film falls down very badly is in the storyline department.
I had assumed as the film progressed the threads would be drawn together and we would gain some insight into the inexplicable events that take place. This however, is not the case. The result for the unfortunate viewer is one of those "what the...." moments. As in, what the hell did I just waste my time watching?
This is an incoherent, borderline silly film. Its watchable but the lack anything like a finale/conclusion is a substantial shortcoming. Four out of ten from me.
I got suckered into watching this movie because I'm a huge fan of history, the DVD cover looked really cool and it had a promising name for a title. I was hoping it would be something like the movie "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead" which is unquestionably a masterpiece compared to this.
There are so many flaws in Soldiers of the Damned that thinking about the specifics hurts my brain.
By the end of the movie for the first time ever I just froze staring at the entire credits daydreaming wondering how the hell someone could make such garbage. While staring blankly at the credits I noticed there were 3 assistant directors, this is probably where the movie really failed. I can't possibly imagine why there would need to be a total of 4 directors when basically the entire movie was about 5 people in the forest.
There were only 2 decent actors in the entire movie and I REALLY felt sorry for them.
I don't know how a few members of IMDb reviewed this movie with a 9 or above praising everything about it. All I can say is they were probably on drugs when they watched it or had something to do with the movie.
I would rather go to work for an entire week without pay than watch this again.
There are so many flaws in Soldiers of the Damned that thinking about the specifics hurts my brain.
By the end of the movie for the first time ever I just froze staring at the entire credits daydreaming wondering how the hell someone could make such garbage. While staring blankly at the credits I noticed there were 3 assistant directors, this is probably where the movie really failed. I can't possibly imagine why there would need to be a total of 4 directors when basically the entire movie was about 5 people in the forest.
There were only 2 decent actors in the entire movie and I REALLY felt sorry for them.
I don't know how a few members of IMDb reviewed this movie with a 9 or above praising everything about it. All I can say is they were probably on drugs when they watched it or had something to do with the movie.
I would rather go to work for an entire week without pay than watch this again.
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- TriviaIn 2015, Gil Darnell played the anti-Nazi Major Fleischer in "Soldiers of the Damned." In 2016, he played Commandant Nauhaus, the head of a group Nazi necromancers who was briefly possessed by Hitler's soul in the TV show Supernatural's episode, "The One You've Been Waiting For."
- GoofsChronologically misplaced map in the opening sequence showing European countries that were not in existence until the 1990's; namely Czech Republic and Slovakia. Also, Belarus and Serbia would not be marked territories on a map in use in 1944 and Russia was still part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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