The horrors of war
A mash-up of war and horror films. Here we'll deal with soldiers confronting some kind of supernatural horror.
War by its very nature is horrific so adding a horror element in can help throw this into greater contrast or the horror can act as a metaphor - for the pointless of the whole venture or for man's struggle against overwhelming odds. Or it could just be an easy excuse to blow the crap out of a bunch of monsters with some serious firepower, and there is nothing wrong with that (except, as a strategy, it is usually flawed).
See also: My Nazi zombie list, they are usually relics of the war so often don't count here, and Nazi occult films for their more paranormal shenanigans.
War by its very nature is horrific so adding a horror element in can help throw this into greater contrast or the horror can act as a metaphor - for the pointless of the whole venture or for man's struggle against overwhelming odds. Or it could just be an easy excuse to blow the crap out of a bunch of monsters with some serious firepower, and there is nothing wrong with that (except, as a strategy, it is usually flawed).
See also: My Nazi zombie list, they are usually relics of the war so often don't count here, and Nazi occult films for their more paranormal shenanigans.
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- DirectorBob ClarkStarsJohn MarleyLynn CarlinRichard BackusA young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night of his death.
- DirectorBruno MatteiClaudio FragassoStarsMargie NewtonFranco GarofaloSelan KarayAfter an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsJohn SaxonElizabeth TurnerGiovanni Lombardo RadiceMentally unstable Vietnam vets who were held captive by the Viet Cong come back to America after being rescued carrying a dangerous virus that turns people into cannibals when bitten.aka Cannibal Apocalypse
Vietnam contagious cannibalism and they bring it home. - DirectorWalter HillStarsKeith CarradinePowers BootheFred WardDuring a routine exercise, a team of National Guardsmen are threatened by angry and violent locals.
- DirectorJoel M. ReedStarsJamie GillisRyan HilliardRon ArmstrongInvestigators search for soldiers' missing bodies, and hear unbelievable rumors about zombies. Dismissing those rumors they set out to investigate. After two men are found dead, CIA special-agent Nick Monroe is sent to flush out what are suspected to be deserters from the old U.S. Army Chemical Corps unit. Nick's ruthless investigation uncovers a ghoulish plot of world domination, but first he must escape the horror that does not want to be known... yet!
- DirectorMichael MannStarsScott GlennIan McKellenAlberta WatsonNazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLori CardilleTerry AlexanderJoseph PilatoAs the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.
- DirectorArmand MastroianniStarsMaxwell CaulfieldNichelle NicholsTalia BalsamNichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a town of confederates. The corpses of the dead soldiers rise up to wreak revenge.
- DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerCarl WeathersKevin Peter HallA team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsTim RobbinsElizabeth PeñaDanny AielloMourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
- DirectorDavid DeCoteauStarsGuy RolfeRichard LynchIan AbercrombieA puppeteer's ability to bring inanimate objects to life attracts the attention of the Nazis during World War II.
- DirectorMatthew WhitemanAn English soldier is separated from his regiment in the deserts of North Africa during World War II, Lost and with little supplies soon he encounters some ghostly being to a horrific end.
- DirectorShaun Robert SmithStarsJames CookMark DaviesDaniel Dolby1969 Vietnam, a soldier separated from his platoon deep within the dangerous terrain of the Vietnamese jungle. After running the gauntlet with numerous enemy soldiers he discovers a deserted building. What horrors lurk within the walls?This student film would have the concept (zombie experimentation in a war zone) reworked in a WWII setting for "The Soldier" which would then provide the bases for the full-length film The 4th Reich.
- DirectorRob GreenStarsJason FlemyngAndrew TiernanChristopher FairbankGermany, 1944. The forests of the Ardennes. A platoon of battle weary German soldiers, forced into confusion and retreat by advancing Allied forces, take refuge in an isolated Siegfried Line bunker.
- DirectorM.J. BassettStarsJamie BellRúaidhrí ConroyMike DowneyIn the middle of World War I, nine British soldiers caught behind enemy lines seek refuge in a complex network of German trenches. What they soon discover is that they aren't alone - and it isn't a German soldier that's hunting them down.
- DirectorNeil MarshallStarsSean PertweeKevin McKiddEmma CleasbyA routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scottish wilderness.
- DirectorDavid TwohyStarsBruce GreenwoodDavid CrowMatthew DavisStrange happenings occur on a WW II submarine.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher EcclestonFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
- DirectorDarin HeinisStarsTimothy FournierJeff GilsonCharles HubbellSet in the Hurtgen Forest in 1944, "The Retreat" follows an American Army squad separated from its unit during a bloody ambush. Desperate to find a radio to call for help, the squad soon discovers that the Nazi's have found an evil weapon more disturbing than guns and bullets.
- DirectorSu-chang KongStarsKam Woo-seongSon Byung-hoLee Sun-kyunDuring the Vietnam War, a South Korean base receives a radio transmission from a missing squad, presumed dead, and sends a platoon to rescue the lost squad from the R-Point.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsRon PerlmanDoug JonesSelma BlairA demon raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.
- DirectorAlex TurnerStarsHenry ThomasPatrick FugitNicki AycoxA group of Confederate soldiers hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
- DirectorKelvin TongStarsTetsuya ChihiroFumikazu HaraHiroyuki HasegawaEnemy fire drives four Japanese soldiers into the Malayan jungle, where they encounter a comrade who claims to have seen a ghost.
- DirectorPeter John RossJohn WhitneyStarsJon OsbeckJoe LorenzoDaniel Alan KielyHORRORS OF WAR derives from the "B" movie, Grindhouse tradition, made to play like a midnight movie. It is an independently-produced film made in a B-movie style, yet with a dramatic grounding and an eye toward bigger production values. FILM SYNOPSIS: Feeling the pressure from the Allied advance, Hitler unleashes his secret weapons giving rise to a type of warfare the world has never seen. Throughout the European Theater of Operations, Lieutenant John Schmidt comes face to face with these weapons. The Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S., precursor to the C.I.A.) initiates missions behind enemy lines to find the source of the weapons terrorizing U.S. soldiers fighting the Third Reich. Schmidt is joined by Captain Joe Russo and his group of war-hardened GIs who have experienced for themselves the all-too-real horrors of war. Together, they must find and destroy Hitler's horde of nightmare weapons before his horrific vision can be fully realized.
- DirectorNeil JonesStarsPeter CushingStuart BrennanJoe DanielsThree soldiers find themselves lost in a seemingly endless forest on enemy soil as World War Two rages around them. Slowly the men run out of food and water, and then slowly lose their senses, turning on one another and fighting for their lives. Private Scott struggles to understand the will of the forest and escape the madness.