Zombies of the Third Reich

A Nazi zombie strikes!

Zombies of the Third Reich lives in a critic-proof zone along with all the other Nazi Zombie movies. How do you approach something that’s designed to be ridiculous? A collision of genres, a mixed chow mein of excess, these movies come from the land that taste forgot. And that’s exactly as it should be. Good taste is the enemy of great art, as Marcel Duchamp once said. In a funny preamble we meet a twittish British officer (Ellis J Wells) briefing Craftman (Zach Devereux), a plucky Brit, about a Nazi experiment into the creation of a supersoldier somewhere in Second World War France. On what’s clearly something of a suicide mission, Craftman is … Read more

It Be an Evil Moon

Freddy as a werewolf

It Be an Evil Moon does not declare itself immediately, but debut feature director Ben Etchells offers snacks to keep us going with a pre-credits sequence – a guy driving on a forest road at night finds something blocking the way. Gets out. Moves it. Gets back in the car. The audience at this point is thinking: “Something got into that car while that guy wasn’t in it.” But just at the moment when whatever is going to pounce does pounce, Etchells does something odd. With a tiny camera move he pulls off the equivalent of the football one two, a flicker of misdirection that bodes well for the rest of the film. … Read more