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I love a good war movie. I equally love a good horror movie. Unfortunately, Bunker was neither.

I understand that not every movie can have a $100 million budget, but the low production values of this film just hamstring it from the start.

This premise DOES have potential. But it needs a MUCH bigger budget to be fully realized.

This is, at best, a made for TV production. I'm thinking SyFy, where quantity seems to be preferred over quality.

Just a few of the many glaring issues:

The monster/entity is in absolutely no way frightening, regardless of the efforts by cast and crew. And its "horrifying" appearance in the finale was a guy in a rubber monster suit.

A lieutenant giving orders to a captain? I have to admit I lost interest very early on (so maybe there was some explanation for it, or perhaps I misconstrued the conversation), but I just couldn't wrap my head around this. And I swear the captain had corporal's stripes.

The small company was able to cross "no-man's land" in about 30 seconds crawling on their bellies. They arrived at the other side with barely a speck of dirt on their nicely pressed uniforms. Have you ever seen photos of "no-man's land" in WWI? It's hundreds of yards of mud, blood and barbed wire. Surely it wouldn't have cost that much to smear some mud on the uniforms.

A captured German played by an Australian actor. Again, I get the budget issue. But his German "accent" was about the most horrific thing in the film. Couldn't you have hired an English-speaking German actor who would have had a credible accent?

There are lots of issues, and I really feel like this started out with a great premise that was slowly eroded by the lack of funds available to realize the vision. The production values are low, the plot and writing seem lazy and uninspired. I originally thought the acting was bad, but in retrospect I really think it was more a case of the actors trying to work with poor material and dealing with poor direction.

I was honestly looking at my watch only 10 minutes into the film. And as a theater employee, I was able to see the film for free. But I still feel like I was overcharged.

"How do we stop this thing?" "You can't stop it."

Unlike this movie, which can so easily be stopped just by pressing the STOP button - a decision 95% of all horror fans will be tempted to do on many occasions.

Nevertheless, despite a strong urge to do so, I resisted pressing STOP. I wanted to survive this movie, just like all those poor WW1 shlucks had to survive an awful war. If they could sit through that cataclysmic trench war for months or years, then surely I can sit out one dumb movie. My plan for surviving this film was to surf through the internet while this thing was making noise in the background... Which is one of many ways of letting the movie know you gave up on it. Without the computer to distract me, there is no way I could have survived this film, just as no WW1 veteran could have survived that war unarmed. They had their guns, I had my computer.

Better still, don't even start the film. One of the most boring cheapies I've come across in recent years. The production values are that of a low-budget TV movie, which is almost instantly obvious. The acting is crap, the dialog flat, the plot generic, the soundtrack meager...

The first 10 or so minutes are manageable (though promising very little), but then the plot stops to a crawl. For the next hour or so there is practically nothing of interest, just a lot of tedious babble, and when some action finally kicks in it is torture to sit through.

It's my fault, I should have known. A 4.2 average with not even 500 votes: this means that even people involved in the making of this stinker couldn't be bothered to swarm-vote, they just couldn't care less. All 50 of them, because I doubt more than that was required to produce this single-setting Z-movie, which couldn't have cost more than $20,000. What can you do with 20,000 bucks? Certainly can't make a good movie. If you could, then cinema would be in a far better situation because we wouldn't have the need for big American film studios, which specialize in garbage only. (What a great situation that would be.) Unfortunately, you need not just talent and skills, but lots of money too. This film-maker has none of the three.

If you're drawn to this because you like the "Outpost" films, don't. Those movies are masterpieces compared to this. This is like student theater.

Decent low budget horror film. Cool sets, nice camera work and excellent lighting. Good acting from unknowns. Cool FX. I loved the monster suit. This is a slow burn that most watchers are not getting. It's a metaphor for how evil grows and consumes. What many people do not know is that in WWI fighters during downtime and ceasefires would sometimes fraternize with the enemy and learn that they are not that much different, and then when the Generals return to their posts, they would be angry for the friendships being made. I am a fan of isolation type films and this did a pretty good job. If you are a fan of well built Haunted Attractions like am, this has great sets and atmosphere. It's a bit underrated..

I saw Bunker, starring Eddie Ramos-Animal kingdom_tv, Incorporated_tv; Julian Feder-The Doorman, A Boy Called Po; Luke Baines-Shadowhunters_tv, Saving Mr. Banks and Patrick Moltane-his first movie.

This is a low budget WW1 horror movie. Some English soldiers-along with a couple of Yanks-take over a German bunker during an advancement through German territory. Patrick is the LT in charge. Eddie is the medic and one of the Yanks, along with Julian as the other. After getting trapped inside the bunker-bombs outside bury the door-they discover Luke, a German soldier, chained up inside and staked to a wall with knives through his hands to hold him. After releasing Luke and putting him to work, they try to dig their way out and soon discover that there is something mysterious going on. Some of them start going stir crazy-acting weird and such-and an unknown white fluid starts to drip from the ceiling. Why was Luke tied up? Was he a deserter or was there another reason? And what's with the white fluid? Answers are forthcoming and if you know much about the horror stories about the German's experiments during the war, you might have an idea about what is going on.

It's rated R for violence, gore and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 48 minutes.

I don't know if I would buy it on DVD but it would be alright to stream.

I was happy with the classic look of the intro and then it turned to the low budget cool feel of yesteryear, where the camera focuses a lot on the characters from the shoulder up and expressions are very important for the feel of the characters and of the movie in general. This is maintained throughout.

If you love H. P. Lovecraft, this film feels like it could have come right off his pages. It has the elements of an ill defined "something is definitely wrong here" focus and strange inexplicable and suspicious things start to happen to a group consisting of younger grizzled vets and young buck's "fresh off the boat" who cannot understand it and cannot hope to cope for long.

You can already tell that war has done its work on the older ones and it really shows in their characters so they are RIPE to be tipped right over the edge, and you can feel the growing dread as the impossibility of their situation is exacerbated by the horror of what they find below.

And like Lovecraft would have enjoyed, some lose their grip because their mind can't comprehend their situation. Very H. P. Lovecraft! It could even have been a Twilight zone, from back in the day.

Whoever wrote it obviously could have benefitted from some help in planning the final final scene. It could have ended five or six minutes sooner and been a great ending. I know some will complain about what I almost consider a tacked on scene that didnt really add to the overall story, but I'll tell you what: i liked the style and feel of the movie. That was done on purpose and it was for people who remember the old fadeaways cacophanies and startled closeups etc... of yesteryear.