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Miniatures Adventure => Weird Wars => Topic started by: clandaith on September 23, 2020, 03:41:03 PM
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I'm in the mood to watch WWW2 movies and read some books. I've read a few of FFG Tannhauser books. They were pretty fun.
I found an old thread that had some movies listed, but that's all I could find.
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=40135.msg469235#msg469235
Any other suggestions?
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There's a book and film, called 'The Keep'. It's set in an old Romanian castle during WW2 where Nazi soldiers inadvertently release an ancient evil and are forced to turn to a Jewish academic to help them. As is so often the case, the book is better than the film, but it's a fun atmospheric B movie nonetheless.
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Overlord was pretty fun.
If you blind yourself to the historical inaccuracies.
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Unlike Cubs, I don't think The Keep is very good really. But worth seeing the once if you like cheesy 80s schlock.
It's got Jurgen Prochnow and Ian McKellen in it, who are always worth watching, even when they are in slightly ropey pictures.
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Unlike Cubs, I don't think The Keep is very good really. But worth seeing the once if you like cheesy 80s schlock.
Oh, it's no good! But I like crappy B movies sometimes, especially cheap horror films. Like I say, the book deals better with the story I think, and I liked the general premise and the oppressive atmosphere of everyone being trapped in the castle with the eebly.
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I just finished watching Overlord. That is a really good Weird War 2 movie.
I know of the story The Keep is based on. I remember reading about it somewhere. I'm going to watch this one next.
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I just finished watching Overlord. That is a really good Weird War 2 movie.
I know of the story The Keep is based on. I remember reading about it somewhere. I'm going to watch this one next.
Try the book also called the keep, much better.
Glen
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There's been a few horror movies lately based on Nazi Zombies and the like. Frankenstein's Army comes to mind.
I'm more into media set after the war though. As in Fatherland, The Man in the Castle (the tv series that is), It Happened Here, or A Kill in the Morning.
Wikipedia has a whole list of weird war films:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_science_fiction,_fantasy,_and_horror_films
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Here's the article about the castle. It's called Houska Castle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houska_Castle
There's been a few horror movies lately based on Nazi Zombies and the like. Frankenstein's Army comes to mind.
I'm more into media set after the war though. As in Fatherland, The Man in the Castle (the tv series that is), It Happened Here, or A Kill in the Morning.
Wikipedia has a whole list of weird war films:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_science_fiction,_fantasy,_and_horror_films
Thanks for the list. Now to find out how many are on Netflix....
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Overlord is apparently on Netflix (at least here in Canada). They've also got the Iron Sky sequel. Unfortunately, they don't have the first chapter. Or maybe fortunately, depending on your appreciation for really bad movies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lJAw_BtM2g
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And there is also Dead Snow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrAHR1ykM6c
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There's also Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I liked the idea, but the movie itself never quite hit the mark for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY3ypQD6p2s
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I remembered a few more:
The Christopher Eccleston Doctor had a great two-part episode in London during the Blitz, called 'The Empty Child' and 'The Doctor Dances'.
There's an episode of the Netflix animated series 'Love Death + Robots' called 'The Secret War' where WWII Soviets battle demons summoned by the Nasty Nazis. LD+R also has a fun little short where Hitler gets killed over and over again.
And I once read a short story, might have been by Turtledove, where the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse show up at Verdun, but no one notices. And speaking of Turtledove, if you can stomach his turgid prose, you could (shudder) look at his World War series, where aliens invade Earth in the middle of WWII.
And finally, bringing the discussion back to wargaming, is the legendary Gary Gygax game of Sturmgeschutz and Sorcery, where an SS patrol encounters the castle of an evil sorcerer, and the orcs, trolls and other beasties he has defending him.
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Whilst its not weird war, the Mutant Chronicles film (2008) has an element of that look about it. Its also quite fun in a schlock B movie sort of 3lway.
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Titus Pullo versus Nazi Zombies. Cheesy but good fun if this is your sort of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Rfyp69AEo
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That Chris Ecclestone Doctor Who story is one of the classics of modern Who, or all of Who for that matter.
Not sure I'd call it "Weird War." Yeah, it's weird, and it is set in WW2, but I don't feel it is quite the same thing as what we call Weird War around here. I don't know what genre you'd call it, time travel Sci-Fi I guess. Still, if you like Doctor Who even a bit, it is one of the best stories and well worth a watch. If you are coming for Wolfenstein, Secrets of The Third Reich or Captain America-type Weird War you might be a bit disappointed.
Are you my mummy? :)
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That Chris Ecclestone Doctor Who story is one of the classics of modern Who, or all of Who for that matter.
Not sure I'd call it "Weird War." Yeah, it's weird, and it is set in WW2, but I don't feel it is quite the same thing as what we call Weird War around here. I don't know what genre you'd call it, time travel Sci-Fi I guess. Still, if you like Doctor Who even a bit, it is one of the best stories and well worth a watch. If you are coming for Wolfenstein, Secrets of The Third Reich or Captain America-type Weird War you might be a bit disappointed.
Are you my mummy? :)
There's a few Dr Who of this kind of ilk, if you don't mind the cheapy original low budget or Sylvester McCoy There was The Curse of Fenric, WW2 With British base infiltrated by Soviets and then the Vampires turn up.
Modern at the time was McCoy Story Battlefield which had British Troops v Knights from an alternate reality who used magic as science.
Also not seen mentioned a Sifi Original film S.S. Doomtrooper.
Weird War tends to be niche and not really had the big blockbuster treatment, so weird war films are pretty much gonna be low budget.
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Unlike, it seems, the majority of the viewing public, I really liked 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' with its pulp matinee-styles.
Also, 'Iron Sky' was a fun bit of nonsense.
Not sure how weird they are, but certainly pulp sci-fi.
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Unlike, it seems, the majority of the viewing public, I really liked 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' with its pulp matinee-styles.
Also, 'Iron Sky' was a fun bit of nonsense.
Not sure how weird they are, but certainly pulp sci-fi.
I fully agree with this. I loved Sky Captain. It's pure pulpy goodness.
I also likes Iron Sky. I thought it was very funny and well done. Total campy fun.
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There are actually more Outpost movies.
The second seems much like the first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5UIEOxOfco
The third is a bit better for a 40’s setting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd2mkfwfrY4
Oh and same thing but Pacific Theater themed.... Dead Mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-dgQPM8JmI
I will admit I enjoy a good, even if cheesy B movie. I liked The Keep for what it was. What a cast! I liked Sky Captain and Iron Sky. I have not seen Overlord yet, but it is on my to do list.
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There's a movi I liked called Blood Creek. It's set modern day but focuses on a farmhouse trapped in time by a Nazi sorceror. The end is left wide open for sequels/prequels but AFAIK none were made.