Director: Leo Scherman
Writers: Matt Booi, Matt Booi
Stars: Rossif Sutherland, Robert Stadlober, Charlie Carrick
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1 hour, 31 min.
Western Front, 1918
Two men are looking for something in a strange bunker 78 feet underground. There’s an explosion, the man is buried, and then the credits roll.
We hear that the Germans are digging a very deep bunker a hundred feet deep well behind the enemy lines, which is suspicious to the allies. The project is headed by Reiner, a scientist who is known to be developing new biological weapons. The British don’t know specifically what they are doing in Trench 11, but it’s nothing good. We hear that the pre-credits guys were an exploratory mission that has gone missing.
They forcibly recruit Lt. Berton, an expert tunneler, to help. The six-man party heads into the woods to solve the mystery. We get to know the men just enough to tell them apart. There’s the Digger, the Major, the Doctor, the Bald Super-Soldier, the Hillbilly, and the Young Guy; all the stereotypes are here.
Meanwhile, the Germans are talking about how they need to cover up what happened at the bunker, “but at least none of them got out.” Even the Germans are shocked at what went on down there. They killed all the troops that had been stationed there that witnessed what occurred. Still, the last charge didn’t detonate, and they need to make sure all the evidence has been destroyed. So now there are British and German troops heading toward the trench.
The Brits find a German soldier unconscious. They wake him up, and he screams “Don’t open that door, or we all die!” So they kill the German and open the door. Then they run into another, who grabs a grenade and causes a cave-in, apparently trapping them all inside. They don’t want to make any foolish mistakes, so they… split up.
One group finds a hospital area with cuffs for tying patients down. While there, they are attacked by crazy men. They shoot one, and then notice white string or a worm crawl back inside the body. They cut him open and he’s full of living angel-hair pasta. OK, it’s actually a parasitic worm; humans shouldn’t be able to be infected with worms this badly. The worms are affecting their brains, and the doctor says this was an engineered weapon.
Before long, the Brits and the Germans have to work together to survive. Will it be enough? What about Reiner, who only wants to continue his work?
Commentary
What is the deal with British people and the word ‘Leftenent?’ It’s even worse than the imaginary “i” in “Aluminium.”
The setting is really low-budget. Room after room of wooden walls; it looks like they bought a bunch of privacy fence segments and made hallways out of it. There is some really good medical gore when the doctor autopsies the dead german. The acting is fair to decent, but not great. Reiner was way over-the-top, a stereotypical Nazi mad scientist in a period before they had Nazis. This is a pretty decent by-the-numbers German-scientists-in-a-bunker-performing-bad-experiments-gone-awry-type of movie, but there’s really not much new here.