Directed by:
Steve BarkerScreenplay:
Rae BruntonCinematography:
Gavin StruthersComposer:
James Seymour BrettCast:
Ray Stevenson, Julian Wadham, Paul Blair, Xuki Robeli, Scott Peden, Charlie Jeffrey, Graeme Temple, Richard Brake, Michael Smiley, Brett Fancy, Enoch FrostVOD (1)
Plots(1)
Set in Eastern Europe, this white-knuckle chiller follows soldiers-for-hire as they complete a mission to guide a businessman to an abandoned military outpost. When they get trapped in the underground bunker and armed conflict explodes above, the team faces even greater danger when it comes up against a homicidal survivor of decades-old experiments. (Screen Gems)
(more)Videos (1)
Reviews (4)
What a big surprise this film was! Since I didn’t know much about it beforehand, during the first twenty minutes I was pleasantly curious about what would happen next. And what a joy it was to see that someone had finally fulfilled my wish and chose the topic of Nazi experiments, one that offers innumerable possibilities for the horror genre. The entire film is permeated by a good atmosphere and there are even some effective jump-scares at the beginning. Most of the story takes place in an abandoned underground military base, which helps a lot. Outpost joins the group of successful new English horror, it has many elements of it, like the cold northern rawness of Wilderness, for instance. Recommended, 65%.
()
Outpost isn't a film that uses the Nazi theme exceptionally well; there are certainly better films, especially in the horror genre (I personally prefer Dead Snow, perhaps because it leans more towards comedy). Still, I think Outpost is a good movie. It may not stand out significantly, but for once, it's a British horror film that entertained me, where I felt it wasn't just an attempt to contribute quantitatively to the genre.
()
What would work well as a crazy Rodriguez-style grindhouse comedy-splatter flick is presented as a deadly serious horror movie. Ed Wood’s films are “great” because of the way they are filmed and what happens in them – his filmmaking ineptitude together with his infinite naivety is so great that it enchants and hypnotizes. Outpost is fairly passably filmed, in some places it is even a thrilling B-movie, but at the same time its story is the epitome of childishness and naivety. And that is a deadly combination. The most frightening thing about it is the fact that some viewers might take it seriously.
()
An uninteresting horror B-movie that wastes a good premise in the most reprehensible way. Just the mention of Nazi experiments sends a chill down my spine while I imagine the most depraved and cruel of human actions, but Steve Barker, despite having a story with an interesting idea and a clearly stated goal, failed to put half as much of a horror face on the material as I would have expected. The first two acts are uninteresting and tedious, but at least they keep the viewer's attention thanks to the growing anticipation towards the key twist, which is spiced up by a few interesting deaths and one surviving “guinea pig". But as bored as I was throughout the film, I found the ending utterly annoying and watching the mindless shooting of an army of immortal soldiers was a major screw-up from Barker after the carefully constructed atmosphere. Disappointing, with the exception of Brett's pretty good score there really isn't much worth mentioning.
()
Ads