The horrors of war
A mash-up of war and horror films. Here we'll deal with soldiers confronting some kind of supernatural horror.
War by its very nature is horrific so adding a horror element in can help throw this into greater contrast or the horror can act as a metaphor - for the pointless of the whole venture or for man's struggle against overwhelming odds. Or it could just be an easy excuse to blow the crap out of a bunch of monsters with some serious firepower, and there is nothing wrong with that (except, as a strategy, it is usually flawed).
See also: My Nazi zombie list, they are usually relics of the war so often don't count here, and Nazi occult films for their more paranormal shenanigans.
War by its very nature is horrific so adding a horror element in can help throw this into greater contrast or the horror can act as a metaphor - for the pointless of the whole venture or for man's struggle against overwhelming odds. Or it could just be an easy excuse to blow the crap out of a bunch of monsters with some serious firepower, and there is nothing wrong with that (except, as a strategy, it is usually flawed).
See also: My Nazi zombie list, they are usually relics of the war so often don't count here, and Nazi occult films for their more paranormal shenanigans.
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- DirectorBob ClarkStarsJohn MarleyLynn CarlinRichard BackusA young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night of his death.
- DirectorBruno MatteiClaudio FragassoStarsMargie NewtonFranco GarofaloSelan KarayAfter an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsJohn SaxonElizabeth TurnerGiovanni Lombardo RadiceMentally unstable Vietnam vets who were held captive by the Viet Cong come back to America after being rescued carrying a dangerous virus that turns people into cannibals when bitten.aka Cannibal Apocalypse
Vietnam contagious cannibalism and they bring it home. - DirectorWalter HillStarsKeith CarradinePowers BootheFred WardDuring a routine exercise, a team of National Guardsmen are threatened by angry and violent locals.
- DirectorJoel M. ReedStarsJamie GillisRyan HilliardRon ArmstrongInvestigators search for soldiers' missing bodies, and hear unbelievable rumors about zombies. Dismissing those rumors they set out to investigate. After two men are found dead, CIA special-agent Nick Monroe is sent to flush out what are suspected to be deserters from the old U.S. Army Chemical Corps unit. Nick's ruthless investigation uncovers a ghoulish plot of world domination, but first he must escape the horror that does not want to be known... yet!
- DirectorMichael MannStarsScott GlennIan McKellenAlberta WatsonNazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLori CardilleTerry AlexanderJoseph PilatoAs the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.
- DirectorArmand MastroianniStarsMaxwell CaulfieldNichelle NicholsTalia BalsamNichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a town of confederates. The corpses of the dead soldiers rise up to wreak revenge.
- DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerCarl WeathersKevin Peter HallA team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsTim RobbinsElizabeth PeñaDanny AielloMourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
- DirectorDavid DeCoteauStarsGuy RolfeRichard LynchIan AbercrombieA puppeteer's ability to bring inanimate objects to life attracts the attention of the Nazis during World War II.
- DirectorMatthew WhitemanAn English soldier is separated from his regiment in the deserts of North Africa during World War II, Lost and with little supplies soon he encounters some ghostly being to a horrific end.
- DirectorShaun Robert SmithStarsJames CookMark DaviesDaniel Dolby1969 Vietnam, a soldier separated from his platoon deep within the dangerous terrain of the Vietnamese jungle. After running the gauntlet with numerous enemy soldiers he discovers a deserted building. What horrors lurk within the walls?This student film would have the concept (zombie experimentation in a war zone) reworked in a WWII setting for "The Soldier" which would then provide the bases for the full-length film The 4th Reich.
- DirectorRob GreenStarsJason FlemyngAndrew TiernanChristopher FairbankGermany, 1944. The forests of the Ardennes. A platoon of battle weary German soldiers, forced into confusion and retreat by advancing Allied forces, take refuge in an isolated Siegfried Line bunker.
- DirectorM.J. BassettStarsJamie BellRúaidhrí ConroyMike DowneyIn the middle of World War I, nine British soldiers caught behind enemy lines seek refuge in a complex network of German trenches. What they soon discover is that they aren't alone - and it isn't a German soldier that's hunting them down.
- DirectorNeil MarshallStarsSean PertweeKevin McKiddEmma CleasbyA routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scottish wilderness.
- DirectorDavid TwohyStarsBruce GreenwoodDavid CrowMatthew DavisStrange happenings occur on a WW II submarine.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher EcclestonFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
- DirectorDarin HeinisStarsTimothy FournierJeff GilsonCharles HubbellSet in the Hurtgen Forest in 1944, "The Retreat" follows an American Army squad separated from its unit during a bloody ambush. Desperate to find a radio to call for help, the squad soon discovers that the Nazi's have found an evil weapon more disturbing than guns and bullets.
- DirectorSu-chang KongStarsKam Woo-seongSon Byung-hoLee Sun-kyunDuring the Vietnam War, a South Korean base receives a radio transmission from a missing squad, presumed dead, and sends a platoon to rescue the lost squad from the R-Point.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsRon PerlmanDoug JonesSelma BlairA demon raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.
- DirectorAlex TurnerStarsHenry ThomasPatrick FugitNicki AycoxA group of Confederate soldiers hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
- DirectorKelvin TongStarsTetsuya ChihiroFumikazu HaraHiroyuki HasegawaEnemy fire drives four Japanese soldiers into the Malayan jungle, where they encounter a comrade who claims to have seen a ghost.
- DirectorPeter John RossJohn WhitneyStarsJon OsbeckJoe LorenzoDaniel Alan KielyHORRORS OF WAR derives from the "B" movie, Grindhouse tradition, made to play like a midnight movie. It is an independently-produced film made in a B-movie style, yet with a dramatic grounding and an eye toward bigger production values. FILM SYNOPSIS: Feeling the pressure from the Allied advance, Hitler unleashes his secret weapons giving rise to a type of warfare the world has never seen. Throughout the European Theater of Operations, Lieutenant John Schmidt comes face to face with these weapons. The Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S., precursor to the C.I.A.) initiates missions behind enemy lines to find the source of the weapons terrorizing U.S. soldiers fighting the Third Reich. Schmidt is joined by Captain Joe Russo and his group of war-hardened GIs who have experienced for themselves the all-too-real horrors of war. Together, they must find and destroy Hitler's horde of nightmare weapons before his horrific vision can be fully realized.
- DirectorNeil JonesStarsPeter CushingStuart BrennanJoe DanielsThree soldiers find themselves lost in a seemingly endless forest on enemy soil as World War Two rages around them. Slowly the men run out of food and water, and then slowly lose their senses, turning on one another and fighting for their lives. Private Scott struggles to understand the will of the forest and escape the madness.
- DirectorDavid FloresStarsCorin NemecJames PomichterMarian FilaliA genetically bred Nazi super soldier fights Allied troops.
- DirectorRobert RodriguezStarsRose McGowanFreddy RodríguezJosh BrolinAfter an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.
- DirectorMartin WeiszStarsDaniella AlonsoJacob VargasMichael Bailey SmithA group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.
- DirectorJuan Carlos FresnadilloStarsJeremy RennerRose ByrneRobert CarlyleSix months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
- DirectorKristijan MilicStarsFilip SovagovicVelibor TopicSlaven KnezovicIn 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
- DirectorShaun Robert SmithStarsClayton FussellTimothy WoodAndy MonaghanSet 13 days after the D-day landings, this film explores the consequences of the Third Reich's disease testing experiments.
- DirectorDaniel MyrickStarsJonas BallMatthew R. AndersonJon HuertasA military special operations team, led by a CIA case officer, are on a mission in the harsh and hostile terrain of Afghanistan where they find themselves in a Middle Eastern "Bermuda Triangle" of ancient evil.
- DirectorSu-chang KongStarsChun Ho-jinHyun-jae ChoLee Young-hoonA group of GP506 soldiers have been brutally massacred, leaving only one alive but comatose. A military police investigator has only that night to uncover the facts, but ends up discovering a terrifying truth.
- DirectorSteve BarkerStarsRay StevensonJulian WadhamRichard BrakeIn war-torn Eastern Europe, a mysterious businessman hires a group of mercenaries on a routine mission to protect him not knowing of the long-hidden secret that lies there.
- DirectorAntti-Jussi AnnilaStarsVille VirtanenTommi EronenViktor KlimenkoAs a 25-year war between Russia and Sweden concludes, two brothers who are part of an effort to outline new border accords become undone by their actions, and their mistreatment of a young woman during their journey.
- DirectorJohn BowkerStarsAriauna AlbrightTom StedhamChristopher KeownThree soldiers must fight to survive the night in a seemingly abandoned house, when a zombie platoon attacks.
- DirectorAlex TurnerStarsShane WestLeonard RobertsAldis HodgeDuring a mission in the Middle East, a group of US soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom only to then be visited by something the next day.
- DirectorHugues MartinSandra MartinStarsGrégoire Leprince-RinguetThierry FrémontSaïd TaghmaouiA platoon of French soldiers on a rescue mission in North Africa confront invisible evil creatures.
- DirectorMarko MäkilaaksoStarsAndrew TiernanJouko AholaSamuli VauramoA platoon of American and Finnish soldiers is driven deep into a Russian forest where its Captain discovers a terrifying secret.
- DirectorPaul CampionStarsCraig HallMatthew SunderlandGina VarelaSet in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.
- DirectorJaime Osorio MarquezStarsJuan Pablo BarragánAlejandro AguilarMauricio NavasAfter losing contact with a military base, a high mountain unit is sent to investigate. Upon arrival, they find only a woman in chains. Isolation and the impossibility of escape serve to undermine the soldiers' judgment.
- DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsAleksandar StojkovicVuk KosticTihomir StanicSerbian soldiers discover a man locked in a basement at the end of the war. After he is freed, people start disappearing.
- DirectorGarth EnnisStarsTank JonesLauren AlonzoKate KuglerSomewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan, three little figures stagger across the desolate landscape. Their Blackhawk burning in the rocks and the rest of the crew gone with it, the trio must survive both the terrible conditions and the hostile attentions of the locals. But there are worse foes than Taliban fighters in this ancient land, as an old and terrible force arises to serve a twenty-first century evil.
- DirectorNicholas CooleyStarsAnthony MilesJames ParsonsAnna Lena MemmelSet during post war Paris 1946 and war torn Berlin 1945. A British news reporter travels to Paris to interview a German Doctor (Stefan Ehrlichmann) regarding claims reported by a rival newspaper. Stefan claims to have encountered demonic beasts while hiding out with his wife (Elsa) during the Battle of Berlin. As the skeptical reporter questions Stefan's account and state of mind he discovers another version of the story. This leaves the reporter with a dilemma of which story to believe and report back to his editor.
- DirectorHarrison WallStarsShane O'MearaLucy-Jane QuinlanJosh OckendenAfter spending the night partying at a condemned river creek, the atmosphere is soon lost for quiet teenager Reece and his friends. Headaches and heartaches give way to a terrifying race back to civilisation as a grossly disfiguring virus takes hold on the most vulnerable.
- DirectorJames EavesPat HigginsAlan RonaldStarsDavid WaymanPaul KelleherTina Barnes3 interlocking stories from the dark days of World War 2. A soldier on a suicide mission. A troubled family with a monster in their bomb shelter. A supernatural investigator on her most dangerous assignment yet.aka Nazi Zombie Death Tales, although only one of the three films in this anthology deals with that, they are all WWII-themed horror stories.
- DirectorDavid B. Stewart IIIStarsThomas ReillyElissa MullenChristopher ConnollyA team of Army Special Forces is sent into a secluded, secret biological weapons facility, only to fall prey to the specimens of a Nazi experiment that was recreated by the Army Chemical Corps and the CIA after World War II. When the chain of command breaks, the soldiers find themselves trapped in a world of flesh eating zombies, Government assassins and the ultimate evil!
- DirectorKim Jin-wonStarsYou Dong-hunYu-il HaSung-Il KimThe making of a snuff film from both the perspectives the killers and of the victims.
- DirectorEli DorseyStarsLawrence AnthonyJerry L. BuxbaumJamin WatsonPoland, 1944. Assembled for a top-secret rescue mission, a daring team of Special Forces soldiers quickly find themselves trapped deep behind enemy lines.
- DirectorJake AkunaStarsYuri LowenthalNicholas B. GianfortiBoris KievskyThe video game characters of "Call of Duty's Nazi Zombies!", Nazi Officer Edward Richtofen, Japanese Officer Takeo Masaki, Soviet soldier Nikolai Belinski, and American GI Tank Dempsey, battle together against the zombie menace.
- DirectorDouglas CubinStarsAndrew JoshiJordan HandfordEric WhartonIn late 1944, a lone German unit is forced to take refuge in an old fort. But there is no rest from war.
- TV SeriesA small band of men are sent to the remote village of Lockwedge during WW1 to investigate possible enemy active. What they discover however, is a deserted village with more secrets then they could have possibly imagined.
- DirectorJamie WalmsleyStarsPatrick PilgrimA grieving man endures a surreal nightmare that ends in a living hell
- DirectorUisdean MurrayStarsLouise QuinnKevin KellyDuring WWII a Nurse attempts to heal a wounded Soldier in a makeshift hospital within a derelict building but soon finds herself escaping into the nearby woods after discovering there is something about this man that can not be cured.
- DirectorRichard RaaphorstStarsRobert GwilymHon Ping TangAlexander TerentyevIn the dying days of WWII, a battalion of Russian soldiers is lured into the secret lab of a deranged scientist and forced to face off against an army of horrific flesh-and-metal war machines.
- DirectorDavid BrücknerJens NierStarsCarolina RathRoland FreitagHannes SellLost in time, it lurks in the darkness, only to return again.
- DirectorValeri MilevStarsPaul LoganManal El-FeituryMya-Lecia NaylorA Special Forces soldier is sent into Bulgaria when a chemical agent from WWII is uncovered that can reanimate the dead.
- DirectorAyton DavisStarsJoe PennyWes RamseySean MahonDuring World War II a group of brave US Airmen are downed in German-controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by German-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
- DirectorTripp ReedStarsRobert BeltranJeff FaheyChase MastersonIn war-torn Iraq, rugged Army soldiers learn that the battles they face every day have only been a warm-up to the unspeakable terror awaiting them.
- DirectorFreddie Hutton-MillsBart RuspoliStarsMichael J. AnsleyPhilip BarantiniRobert BladenTo celebrate the centenary of WW1, a TV Documentary team travels to the Somme to put together a ratings smash about new mysteries relating to the famous battle. However, what they unearth is far from a new story of those that died 100 years ago - but an army of the undead and a brand new war.
- DirectorMark NuttallStarsGil DarnellMiriam CookeLucas Hansen1944, Romania. A group of German soldiers is tasked with taking a scientist into a forest that is believed to be haunted.
- DirectorGaute LoStarsSusanne IngdalBjørnar StuenGaute LoThe year is 1943. An all-female and top-secret department of the SS, run by the notorious Gisela Nussbaum in a secret Gestapo headquarters, conducts medical and biotechnolocical experiments with blood from Norwegian resistance fighters, which is said to hold the key to the Norwegians' unwavering unity and courage. By isolating the gene, elite German soldiers will, through a serum consisting of Viking blood and steroids developed Dr. Friedrich Spannagel, and funded by Hitler's Minister of Agriculture and "Blut und Boden"-enthusiast Richard Walther Darrè, develop into superhuman soldiers much better suited to handle the harsh climate on the Russian Front. What she was not expecting was that her two latest prisoners, resistance men Max Anus and Stakan Brunsteby with their semi-divine resistance charm, will be a major challenge as they charm their way out of any confrontation with the cream of Gestapo matrons. And when they join up with a tired German soldier and guinea pig with a particularly unflattering name, the stage is set for a showdown of historical dimensions.
- DirectorLuca BoniMarco RistoriStarsAndrew Harwood MillsDan van HusenAaron StielstraSet in the WWII it tells the story of a bunch of american soldiers fighting against a horde of zombies created by the Nazis using the prisoners of the camps... They have only one night to save their own lives but the enemy is stronger and stronger...
- DirectorNick GillespieStarsRupert EvansSteve GarryDeirdre MullinsA team of mercenaries confront nightmarish visions when they become trapped inside an armoured personnel carrier.
- DirectorNic MathieuStarsJames Badge DaleEmily MortimerBruce GreenwoodA sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.
- DirectorLouis MelvilleStarsTom AinsleyRyan McParlandIan VirgoThe story of five British soldiers trying to stay alive on the last night of the Afghan War, facing not just the Taliban, but also supernatural forces more terrifying than anything they've encountered before.
- DirectorLeo SchermanStarsRossif SutherlandRobert StadloberCharlie CarrickIn the final days of WWI, an allied army unit led by a shell-shocked soldier is sent to investigate a mysterious abandoned German facility located deep underground. What they find is fate worse than death.
- DirectorJulius AveryStarsJovan AdepoWyatt RussellMathilde OllivierA small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.
- DirectorAndrew JonesStarsLee BaneDerek NelsonDarren SwainIn Germany at the height of World War II, a ragtag group of American soldiers discover Doctor Mengele's diabolical plan to create an unstoppable army of Nazi werewolves.
- DirectorRobert GlickertStarsErik FellowsWestley ThorntonManny MontanaWhile on a mission to locate three missing soldiers, a team of reconnaissance marines encounter a blood-spattered Iraqi stumbling through the desert. After following the distraught man into the depths of an insurgent cave, the marines make a horrifying discovery bringing them face-to-face with an ancient evil.
- DirectorRob PallatinaStarsTom SizemoreDominique SwainAndrew LibertyA D-Day rescue mission turns ugly when a band of Allied soldiers battle with horrific experiments created by the Nazis.
- DirectorRoberto Julio AlamoGuillermo García InsaStarsRoberto Julio AlamoGuillermo García InsaFiacha O'DonnellDuring the Second World War, two soldiers get lost and find an strange cult in a lost french village that is making horrible and obscene rites.
- DirectorJoseph MbahStarsMaria OlsenAnna HarrAmelia HabermanEnglish American soldiers in World War I uncover an artifact that summons the ancient evil of Krampus.
- DirectorMatthias Olof EichStarsPatrick JahnsEsther MaaßAciel Martinez PolIn the picturesque Bavarian town of Oberammergau, two friends, Markus and Thomas, are using the instructions found in an old Jewish diary to gain access to a WW II underground military base formerly codenamed: CERUSIT.
- DirectorJustin DixStarsNathan PhillipsAlyssa SutherlandRobert TaylorLifeboat survivors board a German boat that's crawling with vampires during World War II.
- DirectorDominic BruntStarsAnthony Mark StreeterGeoffrey Austin NewlandIan JowettTwo soldiers from opposing sides seek temporary salvation from the battlefield. A tense, life or death stand off at gun point ensues with a growing realisation...they were safer where they were...
- DirectorNeill BlomkampStarsSteve BoyleNic RhindRobert HobbsWhile fighting the Vietnam war, both sides face a new kind of threat that neither of them were prepared for.
- DirectorEric BressStarsBrenton ThwaitesKyle GallnerAlan RitchsonFive American soldiers assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. This unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.
- DirectorRoseanne LiangStarsChloë Grace MoretzNick RobinsonBeulah KoaleA female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
- DirectorBill ThomasStarsJp BerryAlex BevanLaura BisbySet in Europe 1815. During the war which rages across the continent a noble couples coach is hijacked by a desperate British soldier. At gunpoint, the soldier spins an outlandish tale of plagues, conspiracies, and dead men returning from the grave. He begs for help. So to trust this madman, or kill him? It's a decision that could save or damn thousands, and turn the tide of the war.
- DirectorGabriele PennacchioliStarsGraham HamiltonAdam BartleyJim PirriDeep in Afghanistan, two Marines with supernatural powers face a threat from one of their own kind.
- DirectorGabriele PennacchioliIstván ZorkóczyStarsStefan KapicicBruce ThomasJeff BergElite units of the Red Army fight an unholy evil deep in the ancient forests of Siberia.
- DirectorMauro BorrelliStarsRobert KnepperLou StassenPolina Nioly PushkarevaA US Army plane flies over Germany's Black Forest in 1945. It's suddenly enveloped by a swarm of crow feathers. As the aircraft plummets toward the ground, the airmen glimpse the feathers converging to form a mysterious woman in black.
- DirectorAndrey BogatyrevStarsAleksey ShevchenkovVladimir GostyukhinYura BorisovA detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a dangerous half-man, half-ghost, come up against an elite death squad within the Wehrmacht.
- DirectorAlberto de ToroJavier Ruiz CalderaStarsMiki EsparbéAura GarridoLuis CallejoMonths after bloody combats leave behind thousands of dead in the trenches. Jan Lozano, Captain of the Fifth Brigade has fallen prisoner by an opponent's platoon along with a young driver while carrying out a mission that has been entrusted to him. The possibility of dying executed will soon be overtaken when a new unknown enemy arises. Both rival sides must unite and set their mutual hate aside in order to survive.
- DirectorKeith J. CrockerStarsSteve MontagueTatyana KotMinerva BorackEnter Stalag 69, where torture is just the Beginning for this bloody band of Nazi Butchers! Germany, 1945. Stalag 69, a POW camp ruled by the sadistic SS commandant Helmet Schultz, is nothing but a blood-soaked playground for this perverse Nazi monster who uses his American, Russian, and British prisoners in cruel and ghastly biochemical weapons experiments. When a group of young, wanton USO girls are captured and fall into the hands of Schultz and his battalion of butchers, the brutality is turned up and the unsuspecting girls are gored, gouged and ground up - all for the pleasure of Schultz and his SS brothers and sisters. Now it's up to the rag-tag survivors of the camp to strike back against their captors and Escape from Stalag 69, alive or on a slab!
- DirectorLuca BoniMarco RistoriStarsChristian BoevingMike MitchellTara CardinalA team of soldiers who are assembled to help end a zombie outbreak in a Romanian town.