Outpost ★★★

FOR some reason the combination of Nazis and zombies works well on screen.

This murderous double-threat also enables story-lines that focus on experimentation gone wrong and some more interesting explanations as to why the zombies may exist.

Or maybe it’s just the uniforms? Who really knows.

The 2008 British war horror film Outpost, directed by Steve Barker, plays in this sandpit and does pretty well, to the extent it creates tension throughout and spawned two sequels.

We follow a group of mercenaries hired to take a businessman into a wooded area in Eastern Europe to locate a World War II-era military bunker.

The businessman gives them a story about looking for real estate which nobody believes. After they find a roomful of corpses and a strange survivor, the group are forced to fight for their lives.

Solid character actors Ray Stevenson, Richard Brake and Michael Smiley are among the cast but the main problem stems from the production values and limited budget of less than $1 million.

The sequels are ok but largely just rehash the same story and visuals.