Below and R-Point are great! Other supernatural horror during wartime I've also liked includes:
Deathwatch, set during the First World War, with Andy Serkis as a complete lunatic in a sheepskin vest who scalps German soldiers and Jamie Bell as the well-meaning but way-too-young protag. Like R-Point, it all gets a bit metaphorical near the end, but you can't beat a haunted friggin' trench...
Or can you? Fast-forward to World War II, with The Bunker, whose similarly wonderful cast of Brits (including Jack Davenport and Jason Flemyng) here plays for the other team, as kill-weary Wehrmachters caught between the advancing U.S. forces and their own crazy, about-to-be-overrun bosses. The titular Bunker is located in the Black Forest, on top of a massive plague-pit; nothing good can come of this, you might think. And indeed, nothing does.;)
Then there's Outpost, ostensibly rooted in the here-and-now, which nevertheless involves a group of mercenaries (led by Titus Pullo himself, Ray Stevenson) who get tricked into trying to repossess a piece of Nazi pseudo-tech obviously based on die Glocke, their infamous phase-shifting machine, research into which was thankfully thrown off by the detonation of the Atom Bomb.
And finally, there's Red Sands, by same dudes who did Dead Birds (which itself takes place during the Civil War, even though it's mainly a Lovecraftian shunned-house tale, so check that one out, too): A bunch of U.S. grunts in Afghanistan who've already been dumb enough to deface a local statue meant to represent a djinn take refuge in a bombed-out house, and receive a visit from a mysterious veiled woman who speaks no English...
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Date: 2010-07-15 11:23 pm (UTC)Deathwatch, set during the First World War, with Andy Serkis as a complete lunatic in a sheepskin vest who scalps German soldiers and Jamie Bell as the well-meaning but way-too-young protag. Like R-Point, it all gets a bit metaphorical near the end, but you can't beat a haunted friggin' trench...
Or can you? Fast-forward to World War II, with The Bunker, whose similarly wonderful cast of Brits (including Jack Davenport and Jason Flemyng) here plays for the other team, as kill-weary Wehrmachters caught between the advancing U.S. forces and their own crazy, about-to-be-overrun bosses. The titular Bunker is located in the Black Forest, on top of a massive plague-pit; nothing good can come of this, you might think. And indeed, nothing does.;)
Then there's Outpost, ostensibly rooted in the here-and-now, which nevertheless involves a group of mercenaries (led by Titus Pullo himself, Ray Stevenson) who get tricked into trying to repossess a piece of Nazi pseudo-tech obviously based on die Glocke, their infamous phase-shifting machine, research into which was thankfully thrown off by the detonation of the Atom Bomb.
And finally, there's Red Sands, by same dudes who did Dead Birds (which itself takes place during the Civil War, even though it's mainly a Lovecraftian shunned-house tale, so check that one out, too): A bunch of U.S. grunts in Afghanistan who've already been dumb enough to deface a local statue meant to represent a djinn take refuge in a bombed-out house, and receive a visit from a mysterious veiled woman who speaks no English...