Official Score = 1 Devil[/caption]Since as far back as I can remember, I have always been a fan of history (and more directly, ‘Military History’,) so it comes as no surprise that at the times that I can, that being able to combine my love of history with movies (and more directly with horror movies as is the case with this movie) that I should be happy right?
I mean there are a lot of truly fantastic war/military movies out there that people really enjoy… A couple of examples of this of course being:
1. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
2. Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
3. The Eagle (2011)
And for the more applicable to this website:
1. The Final Countdown (1980)
2. American Battleship (2012)
That’s just a few examples of some of the truly great war/military movies that have come out in the small screen and the large screen…. In this case though I thought that I would discuss the movie, Bloodstorm (2012)…
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this crusty old Nazi as he is getting a tune up with new body parts![/caption]Have you ever seen a movie that could most aptly be the truest definition of a, ‘Bad Movie’? I've come to realize that seldom have people seen a truly, ‘bad’ movie… I mean sure there have been movies that people didn't like, and sure there has been movies that people have not been fans of, but how many people can honestly say, ‘I have seen a movie that can be categorically classified as a, ‘Bad’ movie?’
Don’t get me wrong, all of what is considered to be a, ‘bad movie’ is all a matter of conjecture, and to those who think a certain movie is categorically a, ‘bad’ movie, then I am sure that it is!
For me, I have seen more than my fair share of crummy movies all the way through, but the truth is, is I have only seen a very small amount of movies that I think universally would be considered to be a, ‘bad’ movie…
Now I think that before I go on that I should probably define what I am certain you would agree a universally, ‘bad’ movie is:
1. First off a bad movie is where the acting, pretty much from everyone is horrible.
2. Where the story is shockingly bad.
3. When you begin to wonder if, ‘Alan Smithee’ directed the movie.
4. And lastly, whether or not the special effects are good or bad, but actually make the movie worse to watch…
Now, with all of this in mind, I would say that, Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) no longer counts (I mean that movie is so classic, that at this point it has somewhat of a cult following!) Another one that I saw that was truly a, ‘bad’ movie was, Horror House On Highway 5 (1985), (this movie was so deplorable that the blood looked like it was grape soda, and for at least a quarter of the movie, one of the lead characters is walking around with a rake in his head! The latest one that I have seen is, Bloodstorm (2012)…
Now I heard about this movie a while ago and thought that it sounded like it might be a fun campy little Nazi/Zombie B Movie… Boy was I wrong!
Directed by: Joseph J. Lawson (Red Tails) and Starring: Dominique Swain (Face/Off), Jake Busey (Starship Troopers), Joshua Michael Allen (Dog-Eared), Christopher Karl Johnson (Lars), James Maxwell Young (Lost Dolls), Lilan Bowden (Zombie Apocalypse), Marlene Okner (Maxie’s Girl), Adam Burch (Making Friends), Maria Pallas (The Wailer 3), Abderrahim Halaimia (The Invocation), Trevor Kuhn (The Four-Faced Liar), Andre Tenerelli (Growth), Keith Allan Wilber.
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The modern day 3rd Reich... the last Army group made up of spare parts from victims that make it to their final base![/caption]I thought that this movie would be great I mean, Bloodstorm, the name alone intonates that this is going to be an awesome B movie right?
You see this movie, which tells the tale of how an American research team runs up against the last bastion of the Nazi Party in Antarctica, only to discover that they are more or less a group of Zombie-esque remnants of SS Soldiers that Dr. Josef Mengele (Karl Johnson) has kept alive, and as he continues to attempts to keep the last of Hitler’s soldiers alive long enough to resurrect Hitler and reclaim the Third Reich, for their new, Fourth Reich, he will need a continuous re-supply of body parts, but how does he get them?
Well one of the American Arctic Researchers leads his teams down to the center of the Earth where they will each one end up being used as, ‘spare parts’ so that the Nazi War Machine can re-start, and a re-animated cyborg, ‘Hitler’ (that looks like the, ‘Iron Giant’ with a man’s head on top of it), can come back to the surface of the planet and wreak vengeance on the world that had turned their backs on the Nazi’s decades ago!
In the end definitely not worth it…
http://youtu.be/4BCxlI6PgE8
