Sunday, July 14, 2013

The Devil's Rock (2011)

Two soldiers are dispatched to an island occupied by Nazis. Their mission is to distract the Germans so that the Allies can attack at a different location. While setting explosives at a large bunker, the men hear a woman screaming, and one feels compelled to rescue her. Bad solider, bad!

As the doorway painted with an Iron Cross opens, a Nazi staggers out to vomit and they kill him.  Don't know about you, but if something is making a Nazi puke, then I don't want any part of it.

The first solider heads inside, and when he doesn't come out quickly, the other heads in after him.  Inside there are long hallways and some dead Nazi's who are essentially piles of sausages.  But our soldiers aren't very careful as each ends up meeting their fate, although one's fate is a blow to the back of the head.

Once he awakens, the solider finds himself tied up and facing a Nazi. Oh, and there's a shape shifting demon down the hall. The Nazi's summoned the demon to use as a weapon to fight the Allies.  But they aren't very good at controlling it, hence the large piles of Nazi meat all over the place.

Based on the DVD cover, I had no interest in watching it as I thought it would be total crap. What a horrible cover. It reminds me of when stupid Bombshell McGee dressed up as a Nazi. And no one wants to see that crap.

However I was pleasantly surprised as it's well acted and a decent film.  It's a dialogue based movie so if you need a lot of action, then you won't like it. It's mostly the surviving solider and the surviving Nazi interacting, and then we meet the demon who appears as a young woman.  There were times when I got annoyed at the lead as he did some ridiculous things. There were some twists and turns, which I didn't always see coming.

There's some gore (damn those piles of bloody sausages), a shape shifting demon, and Nazis are always the perfect villain.  Silly Nazis - when will they learn not to summon a demon that won't differentiate between them and everyone else? It just wants to eat everyone.

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