Re: [WW] Weird War Movies (Dog Soldiers)

["Michael Nolan" <mikeno@gofree.indigo.ie>]

"Dog Soldiers" is a contemporary film about a unit of soldiers on exercises in
the Scottish highlands but it could easily be transplanted to the WW setting.
Especially if you splice it with "An American Werewolf in London" and get an
American unit training in Scotland before D-day (Rangers training at the
Commando base perhaps?) who are warned by suspicious locals to "Stick to the
roads and stay off the moors".  :-)

Mike Nolan,


'The RTO gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler
marked "This is your enemy". I checked every compartment, but he wasn't on the
train'

  Sir Spike Milligan. " Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall."




----- Original Message -----
From: "William Bushway" <soylent@supapimp.com>
To: <weirdwars@gamerz.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 10:26 AM
Subject: [WW] Weird War Movies (was RE: Maps and other Resources)


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: MikeEdwR@aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 2:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [WW] Maps and other Resources
>
>
> > Where did you hear about these movies?
>
> I regularly visit www.creature-corner.com to keep up on upcoming horror
> movies / tv shows /etc. You can also look them up on IMDB.
>
> Below
> http://www.creature-corner.com/news/dec05below.php3
>
> The Watch
> http://www.creature-corner.com/news/may16thewatch.php3
>
> Dog Soldiers
> http://www.creature-corner.com/news2/nov14dogsoldiers.php3
>
>     Oh, and while I was digging up these links, I came across two more:
>
> The Keep
> Romania, 1942, a detachment of the German Army is sent to gaurd a mysterious
> Romanian citadel located on a strategic mountain pass. When soldiers begin
> to be mysteriously murdered, the SS arrives to deal with what is thought to
> be partisan activity. What the SS finds, however, is an evil force trapped
> within the Keep and a force which will do anything in order to escape.
>
> http://www.ghosts.org/rj/reviews.html
>
> The Bunker
> "In 1944, the Allies are bombing the front lines and are winning. A ragtag
> troop of German soldiers flee the forest and locate shelter in seemingly
> impenetrable concrete bunker as American soldiers approach. Finding a few
> survivors of a previous troop inside, the psychically scarred and injured
> men plot an escape strategy that won't compromise an already low supply of
> ammo. The only possible course of action: flee out of the forest through the
> subterranean tunnels, which were built by workers enslaved by the Nazis.
> Against the warnings of a superstitious elder (isn't there always one?), the
> soldiers flee into the labyrinth when the Americans arrive, each man's fears
> and wounds are compounded by an unseen evil force that uses his own
> conscious and subconscious fears to attack him."
>
> http://www.movieforum.com/features/festivals/tiff01/reviews/bunker.shtml
>
>     Sounds like The Keep is one to stay away from, though the book gets rave
> reviews. Also of note, both Dog Soldiers and The Bunker are british films,
> so who knows if you'll be able to find them in the 'States.
>
> -
> William K. Bushway
> http://www.supapimp.com/xtort
>
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