The Last Movie You Watched

[Rev. Rye]

This week in the Deep Hurting Project is Nazi Overlord, the Asylum's answer to the movie Overlord, basically with the exact same plot involving a group of American soldiers on an isolated mission and discovering Nazi zombies, except that, apparently, according to TVTropes, it does nothing with the premise until the last 20 minutes. And even then, they're only on screen for two minutes. Shit like this made me seriously wonder if this could be the worst movie in the Project once I decided to add it. Then again, I hadn't seen Kiara the Brave at that point. Let's find out if it lives up to the hype.

• For most of the film, as mentioned before, the zombies aren't even mentioned. So, instead of strictly being a no-budget Overlord, for most of the runtime, it's basically a no-budget Saving Private Ryan, except nobody can act, and we're following the character dynamics of a small squad of soldiers who don't even have distinct personalities. And the sound mixing is kind of shit so some of the dialogue is pretty indistinct.
  
• Are they using thin Times New Roman as their subtitle font.
  
• India Eris? This sounds like a very unlikely name for a British scientist in WW2.
  
• So, most of the movie is set in Romania. While, for much of the war, it was an ally of Nazi Germany, two and half months after D-Day, King Michael I staged a coup against dictator Ion Antonescu and demanded a ceasefire with the Soviet Union. The timeline is unclear, and since there are no English subtitles and the dialogue could be a bit hard to understand at times, there is still a possibility this takes place sometime between 6 July and 23 August 1944. That said, my gut instinct tells me it doesn't. If it takes place after, this mission shouldn't be necessary.
  
• The People with the Black Crosses? Are the Nazis seriously so alien to the farmers of Romania that they can't just say the name?
  
• During a slow spell, I checked Wikipedia for more info. For what I think is the first time in Deep Hurting Project history, I found:
  
  
  Seriously, the film not only does not have a page on Wikipedia, but for the two cast members listed on the front cover, Tom Sizemore and Dominique Swain, it's not even mentioned in their filmography, and Swain's includes a film entitled, I shit you not, Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre and it still has its own page. Somewhere out there, there is a Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre fan laughing at Nazi Overlord!
• It's been barely 30 minutes and there've already been two lovingly shot scenes of strangulation. Who directed this movie? Cheryl/Carol Tunt from Archer?
  
  
  
• There's apparently a crawlspace in the cave. I checked just to make sure that it isn't a recognised term in spelunking for passages just narrow enough to crawl in. As far as I can tell from googling, it isn't.
  
• I think they try to make a pun with "Eris hier?" and "Er ist hier." This doesn't really work, since, if I remember my German from 10 years ago, "Er" is the masculine pronoun not applicable to India Eris, who is female. The correct pronoun would be "sie." What's weirder is the guy responding "of course she's here," uses the pronoun "es," which means "It."
  
• Also, there's a scene where one of the guys threatens a maid during a raid on a German castle.  Thankfully, it doesn't end with said guy demanding she scream and ensure the mission goes horribly wrong just because he's too much of a monster to keep his sexual sadism boner in his pants at the worst fucking time.
  
  
  
• Well, Dominique Swain is clearly phoning in her British accent. Nice to know she's one of those starlets whose career petered out because she's just not that good an actress. 
  
• Is she seriously using the fucking "Velveteen Rabbit" defense as her backstory for why she's turned to mad science?
  
• Okay, it was more like 57 minutes than 70 before the zombies started to show up. I strongly suspect that the zombies are still going to have about two minutes of screentime.
  
• And how the fuck is creating a zombie virus going to help the Aryan race? It's not like they're going to figure out a way for it to be succeptible only to the untermenschen and have the Aryan race exempt.
  
• Ordering someone to not drink the water when it's being poured into his mouth? That's kind of counterproductive, don't you think?
  
• And apparently they created robotic crickets that spread the T-virus.
  
• And it looks like not only do the zombies have about 2 minutes' screentime (but not by much), they do little more than jut shamble around and eat one of the Not-ADIs that spread the virus. You know what, fuck it, here's a better zombie movie idea: Gay Zombie Teen Beer Run (loosely based on a True Story, and by true story, I mean a joke Henry made around 7:40 of Part 3 of Last Podcast on the Left's series on Jeffrey Dahmer.) In it, the protagonist is a gay teen zombie (who is probably black, since most of Dahmer's victims were POC, and black in particular during his zombie phase) whose mission is to figure out how to buy some Miller Lite (while his brain is barely functioning because, well, zombie) for his boyfriend, the serial killer who turned him into a zombie, so he can get his ass tore back and create more zombies out of Milwaukee's gay teenage population. 
  
• They couldn't use the Jews they were in the process of exterminating to use as guinea pigs for their zombie experiments... even though they were doing exactly that with inmates in Auchwitz.
  
• Quick question, does a woman wearing nothing under a slip count as going commando? I'm asking for a friend. And while we're on that, why did she feel the need to go into another room to remove her dress when she was going to take her slip off in front of the soldiers anyway?
  
• And fucking hell, dude starts vominting locusts and the Nazis win.
  

Overall, it's not the worst movie I've ever seen. It had some potential if the people at the Asylum bothered to give a shit.