the audience applauded

It is a performances centric movie

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Don't be fooled by the title or the plot summary, both of which are typical of many low-rent sci-fi and horror vehicles that populate the genre market. War of the Dead is a surprisingly effective low-budget thriller. Though not the first film to combine Nazis and zombies, War of the Dead is perhaps the most effective. Direction is taut and rarely succumbs to camp, and a genuine sense of dread overlays the picture from beginning to end. Character development is paramount, and while the acting isn't always great it is generally competent. Special effects aren't necessarily cutting edge, but they are good enough and the zombies are effectively realized and quite threatening. Indeed, these zombies are rather unconventional examples of the species, and exhibit a certain degree of intelligence to go along with their enhanced strength and resiliency. And unlike many zombies, the ones in War of the Dead are fast and there's none of the traditional "zombie shuffle." Of course this isn't a perfect movie--the aforementioned lack of funds does make everything a little rough around the edges, and like many films of its kind the director makes the mistake of shooting many of the action scenes in the dark so that it's sometimes hard to discern just what is going on. But overall War of the Dead is a fine production, and one that genre fans would be well-advised to check out.

Yet again another staggeringly bad entry under the zombie banner. The movie has zero character development which leaves the viewer with nothing to care about. The writers should have watched predator or at least the first 15 minutes, it's a master class in how to set up the protagonists. Add to this the thinnest plot imaginable and you really are left with something you purely just stare at for 90 minutes.This means all that is left are the action sequences. I was often left wondering what the hell was going on and who was killing who. Action scenes were messily shot and in between you were given little more motive than let's drive this car over there to the next scene. The director clearly had been brushing up on his band of brothers and private Ryan as the film does mimic their look but only to a degree. The scene from Ryan where the Jewish soldier and German soldier wrestle over the knife was practically lifted wholesale and chucked in, laughable.These were not zombies, Nazi or otherwise. More like mutants.To address the "if you love zombie movies, you'll love this" or genre lovers (zombie or horror). I ask you this, why would you like or love this? It's terrible. I love zombies and horror, so much that this film irritated me. You may love zombies too but if you rate this at all you also simply like awful films too. That's fine but this particular film is a disservice to an already struggling genre. Avoid this watch Dead Snow.

Thanks to shows like the Walking Dead the zombie craze is still running strong, but that also means everyone and their grandmother continue to churn out film after film in the genre. Sadly most of these films offer little new or even good for the fans. Every so often you get one that is a surprise and delivers more than expected. The latest tackles the zombie genre, but adds Nazi's to the mix in an attempt to take it somewhere unique. Can they capture the same fun that films like Dead Snow delivered or will it be another zombie film that should have stayed dead? War of the Dead follows a platoon of soldiers on a mission to find a bunker held by Germans. On the way they come under fire and run into what seems to be undead German soldiers and soon discover just how they became this way. This film kind of came out of nowhere and ended up delivering a fun addition to the genre. It plays very similar to the great werewolf film Dog Soldiers, but with the addition of Nazi's and zombies. Over the years it has become pretty obvious that the addition of Nazi's to anything seems to make it better. They are just the perfect villains, but you make them zombies and you get something even better. This film offers very little in regards to story, but isn't really necessary to its overall execution. There is very little character development and isn't needed, instead you are just given almost nonstop Nazi zombie killing action. What makes this film work even better is that they took it serious making the action and story more effective. They seemed to stick pretty close to using almost all practical effects bringing some great looking zombies to life alongside plenty of gore.This was a fun addition to the zombie genre and is sure to please any fan. Some will be put off by the lack of meat to the story, but how many of these types of films do you really watch in hope of a great story as opposed to some great zombie action? Of course not, just sit down and get ready for a non-stop action gore fest that will surely satisfy the zombie fanatics everywhere.

This movie started out having a score of 5.9 and went down all the way to 4 sadly. Believe it or not, I did like it. The set up and the atmosphere are great. Acting is OK. And the movie has some good action scenes to keep the audience interested. And it's one of those ''Nazi zombie'' or ''War horror'' movies that I really love. But the downfall of this movie is it's story. I think this movie would have been much better if it had bigger work put into the story. Explain more about the experiments, show some flashbacks, etc. the one thing I didn't like was that the movie is VERY fast phased. You can see that movie does not leave out character development, but it's just not enough. Needs more character development and more dialogue and more suspense.the movie is not bad especially if you're a fan of the genre. 6/10