“Outpost” is a 2008 British sci-fi/horror film that definitely had the potential to be quite entertaining but the weak script ruins the premise. Also, it’s sadly not very interesting to look at as most of it takes place it a dark underground bunker.

A shady businessman (Julian Wadham “The English Patient”) hires a team of mercenaries to protect him as he inspects an underground facility located in the middle of a conflict zone in Eastern Europe. After securing the area, they realise that this a WWII-era Nazi bunker where horrifying experiments took place. The team members soon find themselves up against zombie Nazi soldiers.

The characters are not particularly interesting. The main one is played by Ray Stevenson (“Punisher: War Zone”, “Accident Man”) and he does a decent job but really it could have been anybody in the role. Many of the conversations that the team members have are just boring. The Nazi zombies really confused me. They have rotten flesh like zombies but they seem to possess ghostly powers like being able to turn invisible and pass through walls. They also do not seem to be hurt by bullets yet the mercenaries still bother shooting at them throughout the movie even after that fact has been established. The inconsistencies in their abilities show that the writers must have not cared about the consequences of their work.

“Outpost” could have been really entertaining but the confusing abilities of the Nazi zombies mean that it’s just a mess. It also takes way too long for the zombies to start attacking so we have to sit through countless bland conversations between the main characters. If you want a better Nazi zombie movie then check out the far superior “Overlord” as that is actually set during World War II and delivers everything you could want from the premise.