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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/MrStojanov on 2023-08-03 16:21:53+00:00.
Today my dad stumbled upon it on TV and I decided to watch it with him. Neither of us had heard of it before or had any idea what the film is about.
At first I thought that Overlord will be a pretty typical WW2 story, but I was very, VERY wrong.
It starts off with a plane full of American soldiers crashing and the main character meeting up with a few other soldiers who also survived the crash. They hide in a French village and start making plans on how to disable a tower that would prevent allied forces from providing air support on D-Day.
Soon enough a heavily disfigured character is introduced and we learn that she apparently had something done to her in a Nazi lab.
From this point on, Overlord becomes a zombie horror/action film as the characters discover the lab and try to destroy it.
The film has quite a lot of body horror, nice gore and great visuals. The main characters are mostly likeable, and the villains are appropriately gross.
I will admit, it's not very scary. The jumpscares are all super predictable and it generally leans more onto its action than its horror.
All in all, it's not a deep film. Not at all. But it's extremely fun and entertaining and I highly recommend it, especially if you like gory films about zombies and human experiments.