Friday, December 26, 2014

Nazi Zombie Alternatives

There sure seem to be a lot of horror movies about monstrous zombified nazi soldiers these days. It's a whole sub genre nowadays, with movies like Dead Snow. But why are they always Nazis? Doesn't that start to get old after a while? How come we never get to see movie characters menaced by a battalion of bloodthirsty zombified fascist Mussolini soldiers? Or why don't horror movie characters ever seem to get victimized by falling into the evil, ravenous clutches of zombified Vichy French Nazi collaborators? There were plenty of bad guys in the Axis in Europe during WWII. Didn't the Nazis share their bloodthirsty zombie soldier creation technology with any of their allies?

And is anyone ever going to run into commie zombies? The Soviets captured lots of Nazi scientists, so they must have gotten the formula at some point, right? (Yes, the Cold War is over, but out of the thaw comes the defrosted cannibal hunger of Commie Zombies! This red army is stained red with your blood!)

And speaking of defrosted horrors, how about a horror movie featuring zombified Napoleonic French soldiers? (An army division of French soldiers is frozen into a new glacier during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, but now, due to global warming, they are thawing out, and returning to life... to kill!)

No? They're not as scary as Nazi zombies? Darn.