“Overlord” invites low expectations and gleefully rises above them.
Yes, this is a B-movie produced with studio resources about American soldiers battling Nazi zombies in WWII.
But despite some underdeveloped characters and obvious B-movie tropes, “Overlord” goes beyond the call of duty with a riveting story that digs far deeper than this material usually goes for.In the J.J.
Abrams-produced genre hybrid, director Julius Avery takes the real-world horrors of Josef Mengele’s WWII Holocaust experiments to a more terrifying extreme: the Nazis have developed a special serum to reanimate their dead.
Either by picking up deceased troopers off the side of the road, or simply kidnapping and murdering the locals, the S.S.
has weaponized the villagers of an occupied town.
This queasy premise sets the stage for a special kind of payoff, as a black man flips the script on these sadistic sociopaths’ final solution with a much better one.
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