Frankenstein's Army (2013)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: Richard Raaphorst
	Actors: Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym
	Country: NL
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 05.04.2013, Centre des Beaux Arts, BIFFF2013
Synopsis: During WWII, an isolated group of russian soldiers receives a distress signal and heads towards it, while fearing it could be a trap from the Nazis.
Review: A crazy concept for this movie fitting well in the current revival wave of crazy Nazi science movies, but I have read that the original idea by the director is ten years old, i.e. long before Dead Snow and Iron Sky. The choice for a documentary style (hand-held camera manipulated by one of the soldiers) is hard to believe but definitely helps the viewer feeling more threatened. The russian soldiers all speak English which is confusing. I guess it was done so in view of a worldwide distribution. The movie slowly progresses until we reach the main interest of it: the encounter with an army of undead bio-mechanical Nazi soldiers lead by a crazy scientist. This main attraction gives the impression to have been very weel thought and designed: the soldiers are all unique a scary: one has huge scissors insetad of hands, one's face is a bear-trap, one has spider-like leg extensions and a driller for mouth, and my favorite has a plane propeller instead of the upper body! Apart from this nice bestiary, the movie can be boring at times and the action scenes confused, too shaky and too loud (people screaming and shouting all the time). It could have gained in being more extreme like The Human Centipede or Urban Explorers, but it was nice anyway.
Rating: 5 /10