Episode 193: Overlord

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JJ Abrams' Bad Robot brings us this underrated WW2 super soldier zombie movie from 2018. And I had been putting off watching it for the pod as I had until I appeared on BPs Let's Talk Horror Channel the other night. BP is watching and reviewing movies this year that he believes aren't getting the credit they deserve. He and I talked Cooties, but he also talked Overlord and it prompted me to watch it today.

You can watch BPs episode on Overlord here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQEzZswm3_k&t=9s

Ok. So for me this was a decent WW2 movie, akin to Band of Brothers, and Saving Private Ryan. It was made well, with an excellent cast, superb look, feel and effects. The zombie super soldier element really doesn't appear until an hour in. Until then this is a group of US paratroopers in occupied France planning to take out a German radio tower to enable D-Day to go ahead.

From when Iain de Caestecker is killed by the Nazi commander and then injected by Jovan Adepo's Boyce, the movie changes. It still have the sabotage element, but now we have something new, something out of Project Wolf Hunter.

Whilst the super soldier thing isn't new, having seen it in Valley of the Dead, Frankenstein's Army, Output 1 to 3, recently Operation Undead, The Revenant, Army of the Dead and the aforementioned Project Wolf Hunter, this was a decent war movie with the super soldier thing added. I guess that is why I didn't watch it for the pod... until now, and the intervention, or inspiration from Let's Talk Horror Channel.

It is a solid 6.5 for me, 6.6 on IMDB, and 82% on RT. So, if you haven't seen it, and don't mind the WW2 plot and story for a third of it, then give it a go.