War of the Dead (I) (2011)

A platoon of American and Finnish soldiers is driven deep into a Russian forest where its Captain discovers a terrifying secret.

Director:

Marko Mäkilaakso

Writers:

Marko Mäkilaakso (screenplay), Marko Mäkilaakso (story),

Stars:

Andrew Tiernan, Jouko Ahola, Samuel Vauramo

Cast

Cast overview:
Andrew Tiernan	...	Captain Martin Stone
Jouko Ahola	...	Captain Niemi
Samuel Vauramo	...	Kolya
Mikko Leppilampi	...	Lieutenant Laakso
Andreas Wilson	...	Assistant
Antti Reini	...	Sergeant Halonen
Magdalena Górska	...	Dasha
Mark Wingett	...	David Selzman
Andrius Paulavicius	...	Russian soldier
Geoffrey T. Bersey	...	Old man
Tomas Ereminas	...	Nazi zombie soldier
Teemu Eriksson	...	Medic

Storyline

This is a movie set during WWII and involves Captain Stone and a platoon of American and Finnish soldiers on a mission to find a bunker held by the Germans. On the way there they come under fire and at the same time run in to some German soldiers that seem to be "undead". How is this possible? Their platoon is almost completely killed off apart from a few of them, including Capt. Stone. They move on and run in to another survivor, a Russian soldier. They all try to survive and end up at the bunker they were meant to take out. But once inside they find out just how the German soldiers became the "undead".

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Plot Keywords:

soldier | undead | finnish soldier | bunker | russian soldier | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

USA Lithuania Italy

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 May 2012 (Finland)

Also Known As:

Stone's War

Filming Locations:

Vilnius, Lithuania

Box Office

Budget:

€1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Accelerator Films, Lietuvos Kinostudija, Media One Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Shot in Lithuania back in 2007 and after the film was edited in 2008 the production ran out of financing and was put on hold until 2011 when the film was finally completed.

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Goofs

In World War II Finland only collaborated with Germany in 1941 after Finland had already been attacked by the Soviet Union in 1939. Finland only retook the land ceded at the end of the Winter War. US citizens did assist Finland in the Winter War against Soviet Union (as ambulance drivers) and UK and USA both supported Finland at this time.

User Reviews

Should have been a 15 minute short film on YouTube.

The plot: American and Finnish troops run up against Nazi zombies, during World War II.

This was not an absolutely terrible movie, but it was still pretty annoyingly bad. The characters were basically interchangeable, and it was even worse during the action sequences, because they were shot so poorly that I couldn't even tell who was fighting whom. Unfortunately, the movie feels like a meth addict did all the camera work and editing. The plot and dialogue are about as bad as you're expecting, but the SFX are far more disappointing. Nobody really expects good plot or dialogue from their direct-to-video, low budget zombie movies -- especially when they're rated this low -- but they do tend to expect a certain minimum level of gore. However, thanks to the horrible camera work and editing, you can't really see much of the SFX or make-up, anyway. There just wasn't enough story to stretch this out to feature length, necessitating lots of terrible action scenes. This really should have been edited down to the best few scenes, with a little bit of setup, and uploaded to YouTube.

Recommended only to people who like mindless action movies.