A businessman hires D.C., an ex-marine, to gather team of mercenary ex-soldiers for a mysterious mission to an abandoned bunker. The bunker is hidden deep within a forest in war torn eastern European country, somewhere in no-man's-land. But with the expectation that the mission should take no more than 48 hours and that encounters with hostile forces are unlikely, the mission seems like easy money.
But what the businessman, Hunt, isn't telling them is that the bunker is really a World War Two nazi outpost where the SS carried out horrific experiments on its own men in search of a scientifically modified super-soldier. Now D.C. and his men are trapped underground, hunted by some unknown, unseen assailant.
Outpost is far from the first or last zombie-nazi movie. After all, what is more evil than flesh eating zombies? Nazi's pretty much take the cake in terms of vile, bloodthirsty beings so it's hardly surprising that they have shown up in a number of horror films. Amongst those films, Outpost is perhaps one of the darker, less comical, and less cheesy films.
The zombies are something different as well. They don't seem to eat people, nor do they lumber around or moan about wanting brains. Instead they act like they would have as humans cruel, brutal, and murderous. Plus they are almost ghostlike in their movements and ability to appear and disappear seemingly without a trace.
In many ways, Outpost is an action film. Plenty of running around and firing off hundreds of rounds of ammunition. These particularly zombie-nazis even fire back sometimes even though their preferred means of killing are much more grisly.
There are some unexplainable happenings, however. After all, if the nazis are immortal then why don't they just wipe out D.C.'s turn in one fell swoop? Why doesn't their leader reveal himself sooner? Regardless, in the final analysis, Outpost is an entertaining action-horror which isn't afraid to give a slightly different twist to the zombie-nazi sub-sub-genre. Worth a look.
3.5 punctured eyeballs out of 5
Rated R for strong violence and language
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