You get this subset of Anti-Zombie fiction a lot, actually: the notion that the Nazis would, naturally, want to create Zombies for nefarious purposes.

It has a long history, going back at least to ‘King of the Zombies’ in 1941, a dreary Scooby-Doo grade story about the good White Americans crashing on a Caribbean island, uncovering a diabolical plot by the *very* German ruler of the island and his Zombie hordes.

(Well, kind of. In reality most of the Zombies seem to be slow-walking the whole thing, waiting for the revolution to put the scary German man in his place. The movie is saved from crippling boredom only by an inspired performance from Mantan Moreland)

From there this unfortunate slander against the Undead has only proliferated, leading to everything from ‘Zombie Lake’ to the utterly bizarre inversion ‘Hard Rock Zombies’, where the Zombies are (mostly) the good guys, fighting against Hitler. Yes, THAT Hitler. (Go Zombies!)

Recently the Nazi Zombie thing has been on the upsurge; I blame ‘Call of Duty’, mostly. Last year we had a chance to catch an indie film version called ‘A Chance in Hell’ (review here), and now there is ‘War of the Dead’:

The production values are hard to miss, as is the very ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’-esque ‘things flying at the camera’ schtick.

It made perverse sense in a 3D movie, I suppose.

I’m sure we’ll see ‘War of the Dead’ pop up at film festivals, it could be a real Anti-Zombie crowd pleaser, full of slick kinetic action sequences, the basic story of a Call of Duty Zombie-bashing session.. and all the Zombie empathy of a paper sack.

The ZRC can hardly wait.

Thanks to BuyZombie for the tip.

Tags: Movies, Videogames

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