I just love war horror! This little subgenre of horror is related to movies happening in WWII, WWI or other wars, or are related to those wars. This little movie is so great that I watched it already three times since it is out ten years ago. Well, a group of mercenaries discovers abandoned mine in which Japanese general Yamashita supposedly hid gold. But, as things go in such movies, there is no gold and the mercenaries and scientists deal with infamous Japanese Unit 731 instead, For those who don´t know, Unit 731 was a sinister Japanese division which did experiments on humans and killed a lot of prisoners of war, especially in the town of Harbin in Manchuria. Well, action here is superb, especially when those Japanese Imperial Guard soldiers step into story. There are couple of great gore scenes, ending leaves place for a sequel which fortunately or less fortunately never came. My heartily recommendation for this one. Directed by Steven Sheil(Mum & Dad).
Not to be confused with same titled Stephen King´s legendary novel and movie, this one is a lame attempt at just another post infection zombie vs special forces movie. A team of special ops soldiers must enter the zone where supposedly all the infected fast running zombies are killed by a blast, called Dead Zone. Their mission is to take new vaccines out and save the world. As it goes in movies such as this, their plans complicate as they are taken one by one by mutants, virus and zombies. This is a cheap ass bad story movie, Michael Jai White and Jeff Fahey only appear a little to justify their names on poster. Everything mostly happens in dark and dim lighted rooms of an abandoned building which plays a science facility in this movie. Zombies are totally no see, in shadow running in impossible angles and main mutant villain is just bad. This is a bad one indeed. Avoid!
This Mexican found footage horror is done in an old school retro style with grainy camera, retro sound settings and great atmosphere. It all starts with mockumentary black and white collage of people talking about Manuel and Altair, young couple who disappeared and how they saw them scared to death of something running through the woods and their house burned. Well, then the movie takes us back to newly wed couple who move into a lovely house near woods but at night strange things start to happen. First their dog disappears, then returns grown up from being a puppy in a day, Altair starts to act strangely and Manuel seeks help of her sister and their mutual friend. Well, all the settings for good found footage are here. Running, night scare jumps, some expected scenes and this would not take this movie away from being a decent but not great found footage horror. But, the story led me to totally another way thinking how it would end, but the ending surprised me, being one of the already used endings in some movies, but still done greatly. That makes this one a great found footage. Directed and written by Victor Dryere.
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