Episode 160: Zombie Wars and Death Trench aka Trench 11

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Zombie Wars- 2007 – 2.8/10 from IMDB 20% on Rotten Tomatoes

And it has a unique selling point – the zombies are organised. They breed and farm the humans for food and it reminded me of Planet of the Apes, the original Charlton Heston version.
We have a female voice over, Apparently the zombies came alive 50 years earlier. NO one knows why. Awful awful credits with a warped camera and bad music. Written directed and edited by David Prior. The guy already has a lot to answer for.
A group of women, uneducated in rags are leg in a chain by zombies. They roped together. Two heroes, Briana and David save them as they are being guarded and led by zombies. Smart organised zombie. They have guns but let the zombies get so close they have to wrestle them. NICE SHOOTING MAN. And after shooting one in the head and looking through the whole. How did you do that bro? Both are man. Totally man. They guys are in fatigues and army vests and t shirts with M-16s and pistols. They say SMILE and NIGHT NIGHT when they shoot the zombies.

Camp has kids being trained as soldiers. A war of never ending battles. A war that cannot be won.

6 minutes in and I was struggling.
David Walker of DVD Talk rated the film 1/5 stars and said, "Zombie Wars is not a terrible film in the sense that it is not completely unwatchable. It is, however, a terrible film in that the script is bad, the direction is lackluster, the acting is marginal and the premise, which has hints of Planet of the Apes, is laughable in its execution."

Peter Dendle wrote that the film is "conceptually ambitious" but dragged down by its poor writing, acting, and production values.
Me? I actually gave it 3/10. I have seen a lot worse but a lot better. The 50 year thing made no sense. The zombies being organised made no sense. The farm made no sense. The soldiers dressing, being armed, and talking like it is now made no sense, when it is 50 years after the zombie apocalypse.
And we have Trench 11 or Death Trench. Another movie where they put Nazi zombies on the cover despite it being set in WW1 (when there were no Nazis). Misrepresentation.
2017 – modern, a quite extraordinary 5.4/10 on IMDB. That is the highest we have seen for a while, although am not going to get my hopes up. 92% on Rotten Tomatoes! Gott in Himmel. And it is Canadian. Won some awards in a quiet year.
The blurb

INGLORIOUS BASTARDS meets OVERLORD meets OUTPOST in this terrifying, blood-soaked, gore-filled, stomach-churning zombie horror. In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked tunneller leads an Allied team into a hidden German base… 100 hundred feet below the trenches. The Germans have lost control of a highly contagious biological weapon that turns its victims into deranged killers. The Allies find themselves trapped underground with hordes of the infected, a rapidly spreading disease and a team of German Stormtroopers dispatched to clean up the mess. The only thing more terrifying, is what lies beneath it.

OK so it stars a lot of people I don’t recognize, and the late great Donald Sutherland's least famous son Rossif, who I didn't recognize and didn't even know existed.
Didn’t like the ending

The locations/sets were drab

Could have been better but I have seen worse. Not the 92% RT gives it. More like the 5.2 IMDB gives it. Was tense at times. Dark.

It had the same feel as another Canadian zombie horror Eiree 13. Was done well but felt like a slightly duller slower version of a UK or US movie.

5/10 from me