Overlord

It's D-day. A squad of paratroopers are tasked with destroying a radio tower on top of a church. Their plane is shot down. After their leader gets shot by the Nazis and one steps on a landmine, four survivors remain. They find refuge with a scavenger named Chloe. The Nazis are experimenting on the locals at the church.

It's a horror story within a historical event. It has a good amount of action and thrills. The characters are compelling. It's always nice to have Nazi villains. It may not be completely new. It is not trying to be break new ground. It's a well-made B-movie and that's commendable.

Fun war movie with a horror twist. On its face, it is a procedural military mission - get in and do the thing to support the impending Allied invasion. The horror twist comes when the soldiers discover some strange stuff happening in the village. Medical experiments are being performed to transform normal humans into super soldiers. The mission now becomes twofold: destroy the tower and destroy the lab! Nothing particularly special or innovative about the story, but it was wildly entertaining and enjoyable. Very exciting edge-of-your-seat action scenes, well-performed roles, top-notch special effects, and solid jump scares. We watched it in the Dolby theater at AMC Metreon in SF. It was super loud and the place was rocking!

A black soldier in a white unit during WW2!! I understand the need for inclusion and im black, but in these kind of stories inspired by real events its better to stick as close as possible to History; otherwise it diminishes the struggles, sacrifices and accomplishments of those people back in those days. He could have been separated from his unit during the jump and joined the others on the ground.

I initially thought of that other movie (Frankenstein's Army) when I heard the story of this one.

It was quite enjoyable at times, but it still got stuck in the B segment.

This one looks a lot more serious and the film immediately starts off strong with the landing scene, which is very well executed and even after that the film doesn't really let up for a moment.

The tension is built up well, the camera work is very good and the gore is plentiful with good acting from almost everyone.

This is the second mix of army and horror and both were pretty good so bring on some more

100% better than expected and a successful mix between war and horror.

Overlord is one of those films that starts as one thing but then becomes something else. Following some Allied paratroopers as they land behind enemy lines toward the end of WW2, they come across a small town next to their target - a church with a radio tower on it. With the help of a local family, they must somehow get in there and take it down. However, they soon discover that the building also houses something far worse than Nazi soldiers...

I must say I was genuinely surprised by how good this film actually is. I was expecting the war aspect to be little more than a backdrop to the horror, but even during the build up this actually has a stab at being a decent war film in its own right. Then the horror starts and the film loses none of its intensity, action or pacing. The story is interesting, the characters are believable and the special effects are actually really good. Imagine if the modern Wolfenstein video games were made into a film - that is pretty much what this feels like and I thought it was far better than it has any right to be. Give it a go!