Best Zombie Nazi Movies to Watch Ahead of 'Overlord'

The J.J. Abrams-produced Overlord, which centers on mutated Hitler's army to defeat the Allied forces, is just the latest entry in a mini-wave of Nazi horror mutant movies that have arrived this year. Three makes a trend, and the Bad Robot production rounds out a trio of pictures, including Trench 11 and Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, that are all actually pretty entertaining, if you're into that sort of thing. If you think we're being sarcastic when we say "that sort of thing" – as if historical fiction horror movies about genetically altered and enhanced Nazis are not a certified subgenre – then, boy, have you been missing out. Standout Dead Snow, Outpost, and Frankenstein's Army – goal for today's exercise, we'll focus on the 2018 releases. Let's determine which of these tweets will fit best in your weird Friday night with friends – or, honestly, an even weirder one if you're alone.

How messed up is this one?
Listen, the whole point of a Nazi mutant, Nazi, and the end of the dead. So, none of these movies will be right for someone with more delicate sensibilities, but this is a Bad Robot movie, Overlord is still the most studio-friendly option of the bunch.

So who is this for?
People who made those dirty crushes on Pilou Asbaek (Asbaekistans?) When he showed up as Euron Greyjoy on Game Of ThronesGoldie Hawn and Kurt Russell's Wyatt, and people who enjoy the Horrors of War movies.

What's it about?
Overlord opens on a plane filled with paratroopers who are about to fall behind enemy lines on the day of the Normandy invasion. It's their mission to take out a Nazi outpost, which will clear the way. But just a few minutes into the movie, everything falls apart, and the transport planes get pretty much obliterated by anti-aircraft fire. (It's actually shocking how stressful this is going to be, so bear down.) Naturally, this whittles the American forces down to just four men who have to invade the German base and blow up a communications tower.

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Asbaek plays the presiding SS officer, and the one who tells the American soldiers that "a suband-year Reich needs suband-year soldiers" in his best bad-guy German accent, and Wyatt Russell (pulling off the insane double threat of looking just in his shaggy young days while having his mom's blue eyes) is a brooding, violent, seen-too-much explosive specialist who leads the Americans and the beats the hell out of Nazis. If your World War II-movie appetite is insatiable and you've been longing for a mutant-Nazi flick that has that big-money gloss to really make those gruesome practical effects pop, Overlord is the ride you will want to take.

How messed up is this one?
We will not lie. It's pretty messed up, but that's why you're here, is not it? The practical effects in Trench These are some of the best this year, when you know that you're going to be very proud of it. That also means Trench is built for your more dedicated genre fans. It's a crowd pleaser for sure, but just a smaller viable crowd.

So who is this for?
People who will take any opportunity to tell you that '80s were the best decade for horror, people who recreationally look up the head-crab scene from The Thing, and people who can think Overlord was too safe.

What's it about?
Okay, time to come clean. Trench 11 is not technically a mutant-Nazi movie because it's actually set during World War I, but it has a blatantly pre-Nazi German officer who is bent on the science of science and technology, and sets the end of WWI as a springboard for the whole "eugenics, master race, mad scientist Nazi "foundation of the Third Reich. Therefore, we are comfortably grouping it with other mutant-Nazi movies.

Trench Allied soldiers infiltrating a subterranean German bunker. The Germans were like, "Let's Lease the Germans." The Germans were like, "Let's Lease" we have this thing! "- the results of their bioweapons were turned into uncontrollable rage monsters. And if something is too scary for future Nazi, then you know it's really bad news. The Allies end up fighting not only the rage monsters, but the German soldiers feel it to finally destroy the site, and it turns into a full-blown escape-the-contagion-murder action movie. The special effects are truly outstanding, and the general gore makeup – blood, guts, gunshots – are also top-notch. If you want the artful version of a mutant splatter movie, Trench 11 is the movie for you.

How messed up is this one?
Since Littlest Reich is not designed to be harrowing, it's just a different kind of messed-up than Trench 11 gold Overlord. It's not a war picture, and is likely the most niche option on this list – a deeper cut for horror fans who like well-executed B-movies. It's absurd. It's occasionally offensive. Its mild bads-and-blood sensibility is sophomoric at times, but that's also the point. If you're just about to go to the 13th movie in a franchise about possessed puppets, you're already a little bent. So you might as well lean in this one.

So who is this for?
People who like to splash movies, people who love '80s horror movies, Udo Kier stans, everyone who is happy to see the resurgence of Barbara Crampton in 2018, and people who enjoy well-executed trash.

What's it about?
A divorced person played by Thomas Lennon, a loved one of his friends and loved ones, he decided to sell it for a quick buck at a nearby convention recognizing the 30th anniversary of the Toulon Murders, a detail that harkens back to the original Puppet Master movie from 1989. The conflict arises when all the convention-goers stay at the same place and have a mysterious force animates the dolls that people have traveled to.

The original puppet master, Andre Toulon (Kier), was a Nazi, you see, and made his little toy soldiers into a covert Nazi battalion. When they come to life in the hotel, it becomes a kill box, where people get mutilated in all manner of ways. But honestly, the story, which was written by Bone Tomahawk director S. Craig Zahler, is irrelevant. watching Littlest Reich is all about seeing how many ways puppets can kill a person, and the movie is not anything more than that. Thank goodness. The New York Times called it, "An operatic aria of sleaze and slaughter," and that is really a perfect summary. If you're worn out one of the other Nazi narratives that take place in disavowed bunkers amid the theater of war, stick with this tongue-in-cheek killer-toy romp.