Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Undescribable Perfection

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Soldiers Of The Damned: Time Slips, Spontaneous Human Combustion, The Occult Section of the SS Ahnenerbe. Yes this film is full of Fortean tropes.Set in Russia in 1944 the Nazis are on the retreat. The commander of a Wermacht Special Forces Unit has clashed with an SS officer over the execution of civilians, shades of The Eagle has landed, This unit (accompanied by the SS officer) is now charged with bringing a female representative of the Ahnenerbe Institute into a forest behinfd Russian lines on a secret mission.This is no ordinary forest, it has a reputation of being haunted and a company of paratroopers disappeared there in 1942. Some members of the expedition see runing figures, hear strange voices. An oddly mutilated body is discovered. It becomes clear that a previous mission into the forest following the same orders met with disaster.Directed by Mark Nuttall, starring Lucas Hansen, Gil Darnell and Miriam Cooke. An effective Horror/Thriller: 7/10.

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.

I tried so hard to watch this film as love anything WWII themed but gave up three quarters of the way through. I think there is a glimmer of a good film trying to get out. It let down on the whole by an incoherent story and terrible acting by all concerned. I am no military expert but all the equipment looked accurate and the effects OK (the CGI planes were rubbish) and the battle scenes (they aren't many) quite well done. I love horror films too there have been one or two great movies with WWII and horror combined. However let down by confusing story and but most of all rubbish acting. The story as it is: a group of German soldiers (including some good Germans and some bad Nazis - mostly with English accents) agree to accompany a Professor looking for something (never found out what) in what appears to be a haunted Romanian wood. What ensues is a lot of good v bad German stuff, some ghostly children, people turning to ash and other weird stuff. Most spooky of all was the acting.

Right from the opening credits of Soldiers of The Damned, we know what sort of film we are about to view. With opening credits very reminiscent of Army of Darkness, I cant help but feel that if Sam Raimi made a film featuring Nazi's, then Soldiers of the Damned might well be the result. Taking the often told format of 'men on a mission' Soldiers of The Damned injects the 'genre' with a dash of the type of Germans often seen in the world of Indiana Jones. A fun film, whilst gory in places but its a fun gore and not the emotion draining seriousness of films of recent years. Schindlers List this isn't (not does it try to be), Soldiers of the Damned it is'