Yesterday I had the displeasure of having surgery without a pain killer. If you are interested in knowing how that feels then please run down to your local video store and rent OPERATION NAZI ZOMBIES, after an hour and a half of watching, you will also know the feeling of having had surgery without the pain killers.
Operation Nazi Zombies was written, directed and edited by David B. Stewart III in 1999, was released in 2003, and finally made it into video stores in 2012.
With a name like Operation: Nazi Zombies, I had hoped to see actual zombies wearing nazi uniforms, like in the Nordic classic Dead Snow. But in reality the only thing that ties together the nazi's and the zombies is a scene where one of the actors is burning pages from a file folder and mentions that they discovered the zombie virus in Berlin in 1945. Yep thats it, nothing more to this movie involving nazi zombies other than the movie title.
Of course I will give David B. Stewart III some props for being a guy who dealt with the topic (in a round about way) of nazi zombies before nazi zombies infected modern culture in the Call of Duty video games we all love.
So let me break it down for you. An army guy has been given a mission to go to a secret base (barn in the country with a laboratory basement) that has been abandoned and over run by zombies, so he can destroy all the evidence. Some of his team freak out and try to escape, getting devoured by zombies that had escaped outside the barn (secret goverment high tech laboratory). One of the soldiers goes mad and starts hunting and killing other soldiers trying to escape in a very Rambo kinda way, which in all truth is some of the better acting. Eventually a hinged box with a bomb in it explodes destroying eight miles of the surrounding country side putting an end to the spread of the nazi zombie virus that is infecting the local community.
I will spare you the rest of the details and go into my G.R.E.A.T. score.
Gore: There was an excellent head stomping scene that was nice and meaty, a well done gut munching scene with zombies pulling intestines out of a soldier, and the zombie makeup was better than alot of zom 'B' movies I have viewed in the past. 7.0
Realism: kinda hard to add realism with a very low budget, poor filming locations and some very green actors. 5.0
Entertainment: hmmm, well I did like the gut munching scene. 4.0
Acting: very green, but I did cheer for the army guy who went section 8 and was hunting his fellow soldiers, because they needed to be put out of their misery 5.0
Thrills: no thrills, no chills but I did sit through it 3.0
The total score is 4.8
With all the faults I could find in this movie, and plot holes big enough to hide a cadaver in, knowing this movie was made by people in their late teens, and early twenties, impresses me with the effort they put into it. With more experience, bigger budget , and better writing, this director has the potential to do lots better. David B. Stewart III obviously has movie knowledge and used it well with the resources he had at his disposal. I give it a thumbs up for the effort because most people in their late teens would not have come close to this level of production.
So let me ask you, would you be upset to rent a movie with nazi zombies in the title only to never see a nazi zombie? You will have to rent Operation: Nazi Zombies to find out.
Thanks for reading and until my next post, I will be suffling along with the lost.
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