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The only difference between this found footage film and footage that may have actually been taken by a real Russian soldier is that the real Russian soldier probably would have been able to hold the camera without shaking it and would have kept it in focus.

Enough of this found footage technique. If it brings nothing to the storyline, then it's not worth the pain of watching it. To me the filming technique was overbearing and outweighed anything the movie might have been. It is just annoying to watch. And again there is zero character depth or development, partly due to the filming technique.

Alright, the monsters are great, good enough to rate all the five stars. If you want to see good monsters, then watch it. The acting is dodgy, the plot minimal, and you just won't care who gets gored because again there is no depth to the characters. If you're plain tired of found footage, give this one a pass.

One in a wave of Nazi zombie films to come out in the past decade, FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY is a deliriously insane slice of B-movie film-making. The plot is as simple as anything, but what this Czech film lacks in intricacy and subtlety it more than makes up for with its sheer visual inventiveness.

This is another 'found footage' movie which follows a squad of Russian soldiers trekking through east Germany in the dying days of WW2. They soon come across a seemingly abandoned complex which turns out to house a mad scientist and some decidedly odd creations. The zombies in this film are some of the most creative ever put on film, and the camera-work and music make them into fearsome creations.

The acting is nothing to write home about, aside from another solid turn from stock bad guy Karel Roden (HELLBOY), but the technical values are very good. The creations are the best part of it, of course, but this is also an extremely gory film in which the blood and body parts flow freely. It sure as hell isn't high art, but it is viciously entertaining and thoroughly engrossing for what it is.

During the World War II, a Russian troop in Germany receives a distress call in the radio from a group of Russian soldiers under siege by the Germans with the respective coordinates. The leader Sergeant Novikov (Robert Gwilym) decides to seek out the soldiers through the countryside of Germany. The soldier Dimitri (Alexander Mercury) is filming the troop to make a documentary and while they walk, they find weird bodies, slaughtered nuns in a convent burnt to the ground and open graves in a cemetery. They arrive at a deserted church where they meet a lethal army of undead with implanted weapons and tools. Soon they learn that the deranged but brilliant grandson of Dr. Viktor Frankenstein with the same name (Karel Roden) has a secret laboratory in the church and is responsible for those monstrosities. Further, they discover that their troop has been secretly assigned by the government to find and kill or bring the mad scientist to Moscow.

"Frankenstein's Army" is a campy horror movie with a silly storyline for fans of trash and gore. The creatures are original and funny and there are entertaining and bloody situations. Unfortunately the option for the hand camera as if it were footage upsets me despite the good explanation for its use. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "O Exército das Trevas" ("The Army of the Darkness")

This was a movie that could have gone either way. The idea of it could have easily been executed a little tediously with a CGI created zombie army going around causing perturbation and despair. However, the good news is that Frankenstein's Army has been made by a team with a great deal of imagination. And this one should attain considerable cult value I reckon.

The basic set-up for the story is typical enough in that this is a found footage movie. It has a group of Soviet soldiers entering Nazi Germany during the final days of the Second World War. They wind up at a dilapidated factory where they discover bizarre creatures that appear to be half human half machine. It's these monsters that are the real angle for this film. Named as zombots in the credits, these creations are extremely original in design. They have a definite steampunk styling and pleasingly each creature has a completely different look. Knives for hands, propeller-heads, head-crushing heads, stilts legs, face-drills…you name it, these monsters are nothing if not original in design. What makes it even better is that this is a movie with a lot of proper physical effects and costumes – it's not rammed to the gunnels with CGI effects. This ensures that the look is more convincing. The factory location has a suitably grungy feel too, which works well alongside the creatures.

Things eventually move into the lair of the mad scientist Frankenstein. It's at this point we get to see some of his insane experiments, including combining half a Communist brain with half a Nazi one! Yeah, there is a lot of crazed imagination in this one. Surely there must be a sequel...Dracula's Army anyone?

First and foremost, I rated this a 7/10 for creature design alone! They are truly unique and remarkable, even if the movie itself falls short. The acting is sub-par and there is no real character development at all. Some of the characters were so disgustingly horrible that I was begging for them to be taken out by the zombots immediately and all but cheered the moment they were.

If you want to see some fantastic creature design, give this movie a try. My husband and I paused the movie several times just to take in the whole creature design aspect. It is entertaining enough from start to finish to warrant a viewing. It's not really thought provoking, but if you are looking for some mindless fun then give this flick a go!

World War II: a squad of Russian soldiers stumble upon a Nazi laboratory run by Viktor Frankenstein (Karel Roden), who has been continuing his family's legacy, creating freakish super soldiers by combining cadavers and machinery.

There really isn't much of a plot to Frankenstein's Army—the soldiers encounter the monsters and die—leaving the film's success resting almost entirely on the effectiveness of its bizarre steam-punk creations. Sadly, the shaky, hand-held, first-person documentary style in which the movie is shot doesn't allow for a very good look at these monstrosities, and leaves the viewer wishing that the film-makers had taken a more traditional approach. Glimpses of the film's creatures look impressive, but I wanted to see them in much more detail to fully appreciate their design.

Some decent effects during the scenes in which Frankenstein performs messy brain surgery will appeal to the gore-hounds, but on the whole this feels like a missed opportunity to make something really special.

4.5/10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.

I expected a low-rate B movie with maybe a few good scenes. I was very surprised with how well the film was put together. The story is simple: the Russian army is battling Germany during WW 2. They respond to a distress call put out by another Russian troop. When they get to the location they only find a hand full of Germans. I won't give away much of the plot except to say they that their expeditions lead them into a Nazi factory for making monsters run by none other than the monster-making maestro himself, Dr. Frankenstein. The monsters are good: kinda like more mechanized versions of those in Hellraiser, and the factory is like a weird mixture of Ed Gein meets Willy Wonka. The acting and dialog were also above average. I would overall characterize the movie as fun, not just the same rehashed Nazi experiment movie, and definitely worth a try

"Found footage" has long become a misbegotten gimmick, so abused and ill-considered as to virtually guarantee that it will vitiate and bleed dry any project that relies on the technique...

Particularly when, as here, its main purpose is to pad meager scripts with numbingly endless variations of "Is this thing on? Is it filming? Are you filming me? Can you see me? Am I on film? Are you sure it's on? How do you know it's on? Is it still on? What about now? Is it still filming? Okay, turn it off. Did you turn it off? Is it off? You're not filming now, are you?", followed by the camera breaking, going dark, and magically fixing itself for a few more minutes of "Is this thing working again? Is it on? Are you sure it's on? Okay, turn it off. Is it off?"

FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY is sadly true to form, and nearly sunk by the cheap trickery.

A pity since, given tighter editing and writing, the movie could have become an over-the-top cult classic. As it is, brilliantly executed steampunk monsters, a wealth of fantasy gore details, and a loopy performance by Karel Roden's mad scientist enliven the premise of an utterly undisciplined WWII Soviet recon unit lured into a bunker brimming with cyborg Nazistein monsters, and make the film's final half- hour obsessive and funny enough to rescue it from being a complete debacle.

It took quite a while for Richard Raaphorst to have his first feature length film canned but now we can all enjoy "Frankenstein's Army", which debuted at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film had its world premiere at a sold out screening of the International Rotterdam Film Festival. And at long last the audience had the chance to have a look at Raaphorst's creation(s) in full splendour. I think a lot of horror fans have been looking forward to the debut of "Frankenstein's Army"; we've been teased by some excellent trailers of his "Worst Case Scenario" and when that project got stuck in development hell, artwork and teasers for his new film surfaced.

In "Frankenstein's Army" everything's filmed from a first person perspective, that person being the soldier Sergei, who's part of a Russian squad that is slowly moving further in Germany. He has the task to document the march of Mother Russia into Germany. So yes, you've read it right: this is a found footage film. When the squadron goes further into the countryside some weird skeletons and soldiers are found. When they pick up a radio signal from some comrades the trail leads them to a church / factory and then shits starts to hit the propeller.

The first half builds up slowly towards the second. Starting off with quite some shots of running and some occasional shooting, it gets more interesting when they come up a village where things don't seem right. The part where they start to encounter the first zombots (as Richard has named his creations) almost reminded me of a mix of the video game "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" and more steampunkish elements. Zombots suddenly appear and create havoc amongst the Russians. The second half steps down a bit and offers a better look at Raaphorst's monsters. The encounter of Viktor -the creator of the monstrous nazi soldiers- provides the director to go all out with special effects in the 'laboratory'. This is a place where a gorehound's heart starts beating faster: there are some geeky references, all the monsters and gory effects are real (so almost no computer effects) and that choice pays off. The effects feel real, the zombots are brought to life in a weirdly, wicked way, most of them wearing working mechanical features that gives each of them a unique look.

Raaphorst reaps I was a bit thrown off because of this film being another one in the 'found footage' style. Even though it doesn't bring nothing new to this way of drawing the audience into the film, it is well done: you know you don't get these lame something-was-there-and-now-there-isn't kind of things but you will be treated with some in-your-face gore and great zombots. Also it was hard to get over the accents used by the actors throughout the film, that is always a hard choice to make. Raaphorst his strength is his vision, visuals and details. I expected the film to be a bit more sinister and dark because of the teasers but in the feature itself there is more focus on gore than tension. Luckily he knows his gore and all the effects are really well done. It's great to see his sketches come alive on the big screen and they work well in all their bizarre glory.

I really hope this film will give Richard Raaphorst a chance to create another feature film in which he can explore more of his directional skills outside the found footage genre and is able to provide us another look in his bizarre, creative mind.

Another Nazi weird science and hand-held camera movie. So fasten your seat-belts! There's gonna to be a whole lotta shaking going on. This one follows an undisciplined and sometimes comical Russian reconnaissance team as they march, hike, and yeah, stagger and stumble thru German territory trying to get the goods on the Germans for mother Russia. As they progress, they encounter evidence that later becomes horrifying fact that the Nazis are trying to advance there cause with some seriously f!!cked-up science: the re-animation and mechanical weaponization of the dead.

This, Reader, you gotta see. Every kind of scrap, junk or part is imaginatively used in the reconstruction and re-animation of the dead. Now while horrifying, there is also no escaping the comical effect of this. This movie is only scary in the sense that "bizarre killer robots" are after you. It is not scary in traditional creepy and supernatural sense of the dead coming back to life. 2 reasons: The merging of people with metal and mechanical parts "dehumanizes" them you tend to think of them more as "machines". As well, this movie leans towards being an over-the-top dark horror comedy; especially at the end.

Normally I don't like hand-held camera movies or "jerky-cams" as I think of them. However there are exceptions and this is one of them. There is a "real-life or documentary voyeur effect" to these types of movies which is chiefly what distinguishes them (along with the jitters, of course). As well, since the camera person is a character in the movie, it always amuses me that when all hell breaks loose and everyone is scattering and running for dear life, they have to hold there ground and act like the bravest or most reckless person in the world and continue filming or else there's no movie. Sometimes the makers of this type of movie get creative and have the person drop the camera in the excitement of the moment; but note that the camera never stops working and always lands in a position where it can continue filming the action. You gotta love it. Boloxxxi.

Well, what "Frankenstein's Army" lacks in a proper storyline, it more than makes up for in creature design and effects. But the problem is that albeit the creatures were a visual treat to look at, then the movie suffered from having a generic storyline that just bordered on being pointless.

The story is about a group of Russian soldiers who stumble upon a secret Nazi operation, where men are turned into vile killing machines - literally. And overseeing this heinous act of inhumanity is Frankenstein himself.

Right, well nothing new or overly inventive here. And the storyline is really, really weak. I mean, Frankenstein is conducting experiments during World War II. Sure, why not, I suppose?

One thing that was a thorn in the side, was the fact that the Russian soldiers were speaking English, just with a thick, adopted stereotypical Russian movie accent. Does it work in this day and age? No, not really, it sort of seems like something left over from the 1980's. At least have the people speak in their proper native languages, it just gives the movie that much more authenticity.

The people hired for the various roles did good enough with their given roles and characters. However, don't expect to be dazzled or blown away by any award-winning performances.

"Frankenstein's Army" is entertaining for what it is - a mindless gallery of bizarre golem-like creatures set against a World War II backdrop. There isn't much story, so just strap yourself in for some interesting creatures that seem to combine elements from Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" universe and of course from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".

I am rating "Frankenstein's Army" a 5 out of 10 rating, simply because of the creature design, because there was very little else to keep the movie afloat.

Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

This film comes from a very great starting point -- the idea that Nazis would use mad scientists to do terrible experiments on cadavers. That much is more or less true. Then, to make it horror and not just history, you add in the journal of Dr. Frankenstein. That is a purely genius decision. Even more bonus points for putting the story from the Russian point of view (the group that actually reached Germany) rather than the American, as would be more common.

The creature design deserves top marks. If this was eligible for a costume Oscar, I think it would be a shoo-in. The creatures are some of the most incredible I have ever seen. Sort of like a steampunk Castle Wolfenstein (which seems to have clearly been an inspiration, with this coming across much like a first-person shooter). The overall set design is pretty great, too.

In fact, my whole positive rating revolves around the design aspect, because I would be much more comfortable panning it based on the aspects I greatly disliked. All of these things revolve around the camera -- why was it shot hand-held when it would look better shot normally? How plausible is it that a Russian army team would be filming? Did cameras at that time film that well and not need changing every five minutes? How does the camera -- and its operator -- take such a beating?

So basically, if they had replaced the point-of-view camera with a traditional camera, and scrapped the Blair Witch-meets-Wolfenstein video game thing they had going on, this could have been one of the better horror films out there today. Coming from Dark Sky, a company I love, I am disappointed it did not pass muster.

And, despite the positive rating, I cannot truly recommend it. You really have to see the design, but I would rather not say you have to see the film. Better Nazi horror films exist (from "Shock Waves" to "Dead Snow"). I do look forward to whatever these creature designers do next, though.

I know Richard Raaphorst, the director, now for almost 20 years have seen his first short Zombi 1 (1995) which I liked a lot, a pure Fulci ode. I was surprised that he was making a full horror feature and face it, it even made the front cover of Fangoria.

Sadly it wasn't my thing. I even found it rather boring although it did remind me of Marilyn Manson videoclips with those creatures walking around. In fact, The Beautiful People of the band was made by Richard. For me nothing really worked out in this flick. It's a so-called, sigh, found footage flick but even that doesn't work. The only good thing are the creatures were some do have some nice devices to slash people. But the final was just a lot of boring blah blah and the part with the brains was so slow that I even thought to push the stop button. I'm rather surprised by the high ratings this flick gets but for me no can do.

Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

This movie contained lots of blood and a few very unpleasant scenes! I personally felt sick to my stomach(and I usually don't)!

Well what can I say, I really liked the movie, even though the script sucked balls, and because it was to dark shoot sometimes. The Costume design was genius! The name Frankenstein's Army is a really good name for this movie, because that's what it is! All the creatures/characters was so incredible well made and I just couldn't stop thinking, how cool this would be if it was a game for Xbox or something. The acting bit in the movie, was OK, not genius like the costume design but alright. I felt the flaws of the script was enhanced by the really cool cutting, sound effects and costume design. (Because the script was really bad). This movie is not for anyone, I would recommend you to see it because of the costume design (that I've been nagging about), but you need to know there are some very unpleasant and strong scenes. Overall a good B- Movie!

Okay...

The only reason I watched this movie was because of the recent cover of Fangoria and the article intrigued me. I gave this movie a 7/10 because the POV / found footage concept was far from having the realistic feel to it and the acting was only so-so. BUT! The zombots were pretty frickin' awesome, minus the walking Nazi yoga ball, the female zombot who reminded me of the Oola from Return of the Jedi and the Robo Cop looking one. The gore aspect was very well done, but I'm up in the air on if I will be adding this to my DVD collection down the road. I'll have to watch it again to see how I feel about it the 2nd time around. But that's just me personally.

Clearly filmed on a budget of about what my car is worth, a large portion of that budget was evidently spent very effectively on designing and realising the monsters encountered in the latter part of the film.

They are imaginative, and well executed, and for that reason alone I highly recommend it. As some have commented in the message boards, anyone that has played many first person shooter games will recognise the influences clearly, without naming names...

The film other than that is fairly what you would expect. It doesn't do anything exceptionally wrong, though the characterisation is scanty at best. There are some wonderful black comedy moments scattered in there. Look out for the moment when an attempt to remove the helmet from a soldier with a head injury, for example.

This film is like the love child of 'Machete' and 'Planet Terror' met the love child of 'Bioshock' and 'Dead Snow' then had a romp in a hotel with less than half the budget. Though shot in possibly 3 locations, and a cast you can list on your hands it succeeds in being a fun dark dark comedic gore-fest which satirizes the rumors of Nazi experiments with mecha- zombies armed with screwdriver gas masks, steel claws, sickle hands, the list goes on. Though shot in a "found footage" style it manages to keep the camera steady enough when its needed, though takes full advantage of shake when its useful. the acting, script and directing are nothing special, but the gore effects are good and can add to the laughs if that, like mine, is your sense of humor. all in all its not too bad, worth a rental or a buy at less than £10.

Me and my son watched the trailer of this movie when watching the third season of The Walking Dead. The trailer looked quite cool so I decided to get it. Maybe I should hesitated a bit when I saw that it was really cheap on Amazon but I thought, what the heck, it is cheap and horror movies do not seem to have that big an audience these days. Well, unfortunately, the cheap price was well merited.

I guess one good thing one can say about this movie is that the producer had tried to make it a bit original. Unfortunately it did not work for me. I have never really liked these handy-cam movies where all the scenes are jumping around. This one tried to be a bit original in that it was simulating being made by an old-fashioned world war II film camera instead of a handy-cam. I am afraid that it did not really make it any better as far as I am concerned. It just added a few scrapes and the occasional end of the film reel effect every so often. Usually when something gory was about to happen.

Speaking of gory. The movie was not really that gory unless you count a lot of body parts being strewn around the scenes. Plenty of the, supposedly, gory parts was just silly, possibly supposed to be comical, but mostly just really silly. The part where the mad "genious" was grafting to brain parts, one Nazi and one communist, together was just ludicrous and sad.

The blurb claims this was supposed to be Hitler's last ghastly attempt to win the war but in the movie it seemed little more than some crazy guys drug induced dream. The main adversary failed completely in projecting any form of "genius" image and there certainly did not seem to be any support from the Nazi regime.

To make matters worse there was really not a single likable person in the movie. All the characters where either just filler characters, crazy people, real assholes or some mixture of said traits.

I am afraid that I had to force myself to watch this movie to the end.

Toward the end of World War II, a small, advance group of Russian soldiers are on a mission to clear the way for their comrades in arms. After stumbling across some ominous signs of what may lie ahead, the team holes up in a crumbling church building, where things take a turn for the macabre and terrifying. Once they investigate the basement, the real fun begins!

FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY is one of the better "found footage" films, due to its highly inventive / ghoulish premise. The need for a hand-held camera is a contrivance, as in all such films, but it works fairly well here. The title pretty much tells the tale as the soldiers find themselves up against a nightmarish horde of human / machine hybrids. While some of the creations are preposterous, others are quite disturbing, and all are novel and innovative!

For lovers of utterly bonkers horror stories accentuated by outrageous gore...

Going in, I wasn't aware this was a found footage film. Well, now you know it is so on with the movie. This takes place during WWII as a Russian platoon stumbles across a secret German lab. I will say stumble, since how they happen upon it is part of the plot. Anyways, in this lab a whacked out doctor/scientist, whatever he is, creates really bizarre soldiers out of anything and everything for the war effort. The script, acting, scenery, editing, etc. all are basically terrible. I really still am unsure if this was emulating a comedy, or was attempting to be serious. It did have a sort of Troma feel to it, which I very much respect, but didn't hit the humor level to fall into that category. The gore is there for the fans, and some is actually done well to make ya cringe. Just a bit too few and far between for my tastes. Overall, even with a low score, the creations alone are worth seeing even if the movie without them would be horrendous. Enjoy at your own discretion, completely up to you. 4.1/10