Full of Nazis getting shot in the face, Julius Avery’s not-a-Cloverfield-movie (thank god), Overlord, might be the feel-good movie of 2018. It’s also a violent, rapid-fire, predictable-but-entertaining delve into one of my favorite sub-subgenres of horror, the Nazi zombie story.
Going back to the 1970s, there’s a whole subset of zombie
movies that involve Nazis. (My personal favorite subset of this subset is the Nazi-zombies-emerging-from-bodies-of-water
sub-subgenre.) Recent installments like the Dead Snow movies
have taken a swing at this and now J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robots are having
their say with Overlord. The first trailer has emerged from
the mystery box and it’s a wild time for sure. Check it out after the jump.
Well, the Bad Robot mystery box is back at it again. There’s
been talk of a secretive Cloverfield tie-in coming for some
time, but we just got a new trailer, poster, and imminent release date for the
project, apparently called 10 Cloverfield Lane (it was
earlier known by the title Valencia). Who knows how this
connects to the found footage monster movie, or if that’s just a tease, but
this first look is something I’m totally into.
