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Outpost: Black Sun (2012) Directed by Steve Barker

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 8:34 AM / comment : 0 , , , , , , ,



It's as if the film-makers had been watching the first movie and learned from their mistakes and decided on doing everything different and better this time. And the end result is not a great but a definitely watchable movie!

More fun, more gore, more zombies, a better pace, better characters. This feels more like a movie that knew what it was doing! It's being more a straightforward horror flick, involving zombies and Nazi's. It's simple but ultimately also effective.

Another thing that had been improved is its look. It's not as low budget looking as its predecessor and simply has a good look and atmosphere to it, that suits the movie its story. It also definitely was a better choice to let this movie take place at more than just one location. It also helps to give the movie some more pace and to help to keep things more fresh and interesting.

Horror/zombie fans will definitely be more pleased with this movie than with its predecessor. Not that its being the best the genre has to offer but it at least offers plenty of fun and some gore. For them this movie is definitely being a recommendable one but to most others it remains nothing more than just a very average genre entry, that doesn't have an awful lot to offer for them in it.

6/10

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Outpost (2008) Directed by Steve Barker

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 5:58 AM / comment : 0 , , , , , ,



This movie is a case of; the premise is being more awesome than the actual movie. I don't know what it is but war movies involving occult elements and in this particular case also zombies, always keep disappointing me, while I still have faith in it that one day a great movie about it will get made!

Don't really know or understand what the film-makers were aiming. Guess they tried to be more than just an average, silly horror flick, with zombies in it. They did so by trying to make the story something convincing and by building up things very slowly. But we all know that at some point this movie is going to turn into a zombie flick anyway, so why even bother? Besides, in essence the movie and also its story never surpass the level of a B-movie, so it's actually only annoying that the movie tries to be way more than it in fact truly is.

Especially the pace and buildup of the movie is being quite frustrating. For the longest time, there is absolutely nothing happening. So please don't go watch this movie expecting lots of zombie awesomeness or different type of action. the movie obviously didn't had the budget or knowhow, for any of that. there is also very little, which is another disappointing about the movie.

They at least tried to provide the movie with some cool characters and developments, for all of them but I still can't really say that the movie has any true great or likable enough characters in it. I honestly can't remember any of their names and I also can't really say that any of them had a good and distinctive personality. In other words, I just couldn't care quite enough for any of them, which also made me far from feeling involved with this movie.

It's definitely not being the worst that the genre has to offer but I still can't really call it a good enough or very recommendable movie either.

5/10

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