Looking for Movie and Book Suggestions

[clandaith]

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?

[Cubs]

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.

[Chimpfoot]

Overlord was pretty fun.
If you blind yourself to the historical inaccuracies.

[Plynkes]

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.

[Cubs]

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.

[clandaith]

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.

[Storm Wolf]

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

[Wyrmalla]

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

[clandaith]

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....

[Will Bailie]

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

[Will Bailie]

And there is also Dead Snow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrAHR1ykM6c

[Will Bailie]

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

[Will Bailie]

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.

[Sir_Theo]

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.

[Grumpy Gnome]

Titus Pullo versus Nazi Zombies. Cheesy but good fun if this is your sort of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Rfyp69AEo