Outpost - Born to Fight
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Outpost - Born to Fight |
| Original title | Outpost |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Steve Barker |
| script | Rae Brunton |
| production |
Arabella Croft , Kieran Parker |
| music | James Seymour board |
| camera | Gavin Struthers |
| cut |
Chris Gill , Alastair Reid |
| occupation | |
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Outpost - Born to Fight is a British horror film directed by Steve Barker from the year 2008 .
action
In a bar, the ex- Royal-Marine DC is hired by a mysterious engineer named Hunt to put together a team of battle-hardened men to protect him while securing soil samples to search for minerals in a war zone in Eastern Europe. Together with the leader DC and his team of 6 other mercenaries , including former soldiers of the Marines and the Spetsnaz , Hunt sets off into a no man's land in the middle of the contested zone.
When she an old World War II bunkers the Nazis come, but the true purpose of the engineer Hunt is clear, for he begins his research within the plant. The team found a chamber full of corpses from which a survivor was rescued, but he seemed completely absent. As it quickly turns out that the mission has nothing to do with the search for minerals and Hunt does not reveal the mission goal, the team begins to speculate about the purpose of the mission. At first it is believed that Hunt would be looking for lost Nazi gold, but more and more mysterious incidents occur. The mercenaries' radios are constantly disturbed by strange signals and are ultimately unusable. The first comrade of the mercenary troops suddenly disappears without a trace in a nightly firefight, but the laid mines and trip wires have not triggered. In addition, there is an Iron Cross of the German Wehrmacht at the last whereabouts of the disappeared . The missing mercenary is tortured by strangers and brutally murdered, which the team notices through his screams. When a little later the second mercenary is cruelly killed unnoticed, the pressure on Hunt grows, because the men want to know what the goal of the mission is and what opponent they are up against because of the incidents. It turns out that the Nazis carried out human experiments in the bunker towards the end of the Second World War . A machine, invented to make German soldiers invulnerable, is the focus of the engineer and is to be salvaged by him for his client, the evacuation team has already been requested. With the machine, the soldiers treated with it were trapped in magnetic fields in which they are still and in which they cannot be stopped by force of arms. The aim of this was to be able to teleport an army of invulnerable soldiers to anywhere in the world in order to be able to turn the tide to victory for the Nazis. Since their creation, the creatures have been invulnerable and optimized to wipe out anything that gets in their way. Thanks to their teleportation ability, they are able to suddenly appear and disappear again in front of the team, which is why no mines or trip wires were triggered.
When the team discovers an old documentary film in which the survivor found turns out to be the commander of the bunker and leader of the creatures, one of the mercenaries tries to kill him. However, since he is invulnerable like the other creatures, he is not impressed by the headshot. Again one of the mercenaries disappears and dies shortly after the leader of the creatures suddenly vanishes into thin air.
The last option to survive is to use the machine that created the creatures against them. Hunt and the remaining mercenaries try to lure the creatures as close as possible to the machine, wiping out all of the rest of the team except for DC and Hunt. Even if the machine that Albert Einstein's Unified Field Theory uses is briefly run by Hunt and paralyzes the zombies, the bunker's generator can no longer maintain the necessary electricity. DC is injured in the leg and sacrifices himself for Hunt. He tries to escape through the ventilation, but is killed in the end. After that, the evacuation team requested by Hunt arrives and this is also attacked by the Nazi zombies again at night.
Reviews
"Brutal horror film, the absurd story of which is laid out in such a way that as many participants as possible exhale their lives in a claustrophobic tightness in a very drastic way."
“The good cast helps to dampen the conventional character of the characters, at least to make the two-dimensionality of the characters appear a little more vivid. The director is able to build up a good amount of tension in the first third of the film. Once in the bunker, the curve flattens out; there are a few passable moments of shock, but they can easily be found in the large 'I already know' drawer. The dreary color scheme matches the theme and creates a minimum of atmosphere, but appears monotonous over the entire duration. […] The end, on the other hand, is annoying. Not only does it appear very calculated and artificial, but it also makes the red alarm lights glow on the sequel proximity radar. Even if it doesn't come to that, this way of deciding on stories is simply too trite to leave a really positive overall impression. "
backgrounds
The film was released on DVD in the United States on March 18, 2008 . The publication in Germany took place on 5 June 2008 on DVD, and on April 9, 2011, ProSieben as free TV - Premiere .
continuation
In 2011, the filming of a sequel began: Outpost 2: Black Sun , which was released directly on DVD in Germany on April 27, 2012. Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz was released in 2013 .
Web links
- Outpost - Born to fight in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Outpost - Born to Fight. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Outpost - Born to Fight (2007) Review on BlairWitch.de
- ^ Outpost: Black Sun. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
- ^ Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .