The Bunker (2001)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Rob Green

Writer:

Clive Dawson (written by)

Release Date:

27 September 2002 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller | War

Tagline:

The evil is within.

Plot:

Seven German soldiers are enclosed in one bunker during the Second World War. They soon feel surrounded by enemies...

Plot Keywords:

Bunker | Soldier | Tunnel | German Army | WWII

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Jason Flemyng	...	Cpl. Baumann
Andrew Tiernan	...	LCpl. Schenke
Christopher Fairbank	...	Sgt. Heydrich
Simon Kunz	...	Lt. Krupp
Andrew Lee Potts	...	Pvt. Neumann
John Carlisle	...	Pvt. Mirus
Eddie Marsan	...	Pfc. Kreuzmann
Jack Davenport	...	LCpl. Ebert
Charley Boorman	...	Pfc. Franke
Nicholas Hamnett	...	Pvt. Engels
Peter O'Connor	...	Corporal 1
Josh Cole	...	Corporal 2
Iain McKee	...	Private
Nick Rutherford	...	Deserter
Simon D'Arcy	...	SS officer (as Simon Darcy)

Also Known As:

The Bunker: The Evil Is Within (UK) (DVD box title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence.

Runtime:

95 min | UK:92 min | USA:88 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) | Australia:MA | Finland:K-15 | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Black Park Country Park, Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Millennium Pictures

Goofs:

Factual errors: The U.S. Third Armored Division, which was part of the U.S. First Army in France, was often confused with General Patton's Third Army. Many of the Third Armored Division's achievements have been wrongly ascribed to Patton's Third Army due to this confusion.

Quotes:

Lt. Krupp: [after announcing their orders to hold the bunker with low ammo and no reinforcements] This time they will not have the element of surprise.
LCpl. Ebert: They don't need surprise if there's an armoured column heading straight for...
Lt. Krupp: Where is this armoured column coming from?
LCpl. Ebert: OH, COME ON! The same place they did! We don't know what's going on at the front.

Movie Connections:

References Suspiria (1977)

Creepy

A group of German soldiers find refuge into an isolated bunker during the final months of WWII. They are escaping the advancing US army, and they are sharing a terrible secret (that will be revealed to the spectators only in the final minutes of the movie). Inside the bunker and in the tunnels below it, they will find their worst fears and nightmares materializing, the ghosts of war coming to get them. Without any special effects, director Rob Green manages to make a scary movie, played almost totally on the inner fears of humans caught in something bigger than any of us, into the darkness of the human minds, capable to create such a war. So, if you are an horror fan, waiting for slimy creatures or tentacled nightmares to come out of the cave, beware of this movie. But if you are a real horror movie fan, searching for the atmosphere that a good horror movie can manage without the use of any particular effect, you are for a big surprise in this little, misguided gem of an independent movie. Two thumbs up!!