Somewhere in Eastern Europe, government forces are battling insurgents in an unending cycle of carnage.
In Outpost, Hunt (Julian Wadham), a determined financier employs mercenary captain DC (Ray Stevenson) and a band of “hired swords” to accompany him on a hazardous mission to retrieve a piece of Nazi hardware from an underground compound.
Director and cowriter Steve Barker correctly understands that Germany’s rumored use of occult practices toward the end of the war is a well-stocked pond of possibilities, and makes the most of it.
Shortly after securing the site, the soldiers find themselves under attack by an unseen enemy, one that can seemingly appear and disappear at will, which makes for a very nervous company.
Meanwhile, Hunt has found his infernal device, risking life and limb to jumpstart an ancient contraption in order to control undead Nazi hordes that are rapidly regrouping on the ground floor.
“You said that that machine of yours was made to control them?” DC shouts at Hunt.
“Not control, contain,” Hunt says. “But they obviously got the maths wrong.”
Outpost offers a nasty upgrade to the ol’ Nazi zombie angle, as Barker draws up an army of teleporting evil super soldiers that have held their position since the end of the second world war.
Fortunately, they aren’t advancing. Yet.
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