Happy Tuesday everyone! Don’t fret it is a great Tuesday because 1.) RFN has an awesome new pod out and 2.) It is a short week thanks to national football and turkey day!!! Today the boys chat about a zombie Nazi horror World War II movie that should have come out before Halloween, Overlord. Conversation includes Wolfenstein 3D, other WW2 movies that are actually good, zombies or lack thereof, and the incredible thought-provoking comic book Über published by Avatar Press.
Overlord starts out really strong with some amazing WW2 C-47 and paratrooper scenes quickly falling apart afterwards. The makeup is incredible, the acting is lackluster well Matt thinks so, and the story is just plain awful. This film is clearly a rip-off of the hugely successful Wolfenstein video game franchise but fails to be as fun or as great of a story. There are also a ton of WW2 movie stereotypes especially the characters. It is weird having to write WW2 stereotypes, but they are quickly starting to develop in the entertainment world.
Matt really was not a huge fan of Overlord other than the beginning scenes. Maybe he built it up too much in his head or maybe the successful Nazi zombie franchises in existence make this one look terrible. He gives the movie 2 out of 5 Reels. Mysterious Mike agreed with Matt and is not a huge fan of this film. He is still a huge fan of horror and maybe that effected his rating. Mike gives Overlord 2.5 out of 5 Reels.
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Overlord 
Director: Julius Avery
Writers: Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith
Stars: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbæk, and Iain De Caestecker
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Storyline from IMDB
On the eve of D-Day, the 5th of June, 1944, several American paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion’s success: destroy a radio tower built in a little castle of an old French town that the Third Reich uses for communication between Berlin and Normandy beaches’ bunkers. Due to the intense enemy fire, the planes are shot down and most soldiers die in the landing or are killed by the Nazis’ night patrols after they taking land. However, a private named Ed Boyce survives to find Corporal Ford, a last-minute incorporation from Italy and a veteran expert in bombs and explosives, rogue sniper Tibbet, war photographer Chase, and finally private Dawson. After they watch the killing of their superior Sargeant Eldson by a Nazi night patrol, Ford turns in the leader of the group and they try to get the town with the tower in order to complete the mission. In the forest close to the town, almost arriving to it, they meet Chloe, a villager who assists the soldiers in her home with her elderly aunt and little brother Paul. But the mission gets complicated when by accident Boyce ends up inside the Nazi radio tower, only to find horrible secret experiments with human beings that could empower a victory for Hitler and would change the fate of the world forever. With D-Day approaching, Boyce and the others begin to realize there is more going on in this Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation. They not only have to fight against soldiers to destroy the radio tower, but also against the results of the experiments to turn the entire place to ruins. All this before dawn and Hitler gets his Third Reich of a thousand years that he promised.
Watch the Overlord trailer below.
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