This thing was absolutely ridiculous due mainly to the plot,the plot, & the plot. I would love to know what the writers were thinking when they wrote it and how they thought it would come out on film. Everything that normally should have been right was wrong, and of coarse everything that should have been wrong was right, and it managed to be one of the most humorous attempts at horror I have ever seen. Everything that happened was totally absurd, but in a funny way. The acting was well, good enough to keep things rolling. There were so many WTHell moments,eye brow raising, & oh my's to keep you watching. The last third of it was the best, like when the machine opens & what happens afterward is totally awesome lmao. There is enough cheese in this to feed all the rats in NYC, So if you are looking for a good hilarious, gore filled film that is completely nuts then this is for you.
78 Reviews
Optimus Hitler
MovieloverIreland26 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Wow! What did I just watch?
I recall zombie robot Hitler, imagine Hitlers head on a mini Optimus Prime body, I'm calling him Optimus Hitler, and with the incredible gift of sub par Playstation 2 graphical power he attempts to take over all non Aryan countries by dropping flesh eating bacterial bombs from his flying Nazi saucer yes you read that correctly
A flying Nazi saucer which emerges from the center of the Earth no less, now I'm no expert on geology but I do know the center of the Earth is roughly 4000 miles below the Earths surface, I only bring this up as our "heroes" and I use the term heroes lightly as this group is as forgettable as a week old cheese sandwich left out in the sun, journey down a shaft that is nowhere near 4000 miles, perhaps 2 miles if I'm being very generous.
A CGI snow-cat vehicle (surely renting a real one would have been more cost effective)
A Wilhelm scream in opening skirmish, I call it a skirmish but it was really just four guys in a row shooting at a few other guys with no actual sense that they were shooting at each other, like watching one sided tennis, watch it and see.. Actually just watch grass grow instead.
A zombie Nazi gang rape (just an excuse to get gratuitous boob shots in) and whatever happened to that girl? Did they kill her afterward? It all seemed so unnecessary and left a nasty taste in mouth.
"Saw" type torture porn scenes with the most efficient face peeling in history.
I'm no expert on the fine art of peeling someone's face off but I imagine an incision across the forehead followed by a quick pull would not allow a face to come off unspoilt and then be stitched onto another head, it wasn't like that in "Face Off" which segues nicely into Dominique Swain who starred in that and whose career has gone so far down the toilet that Jake Buseys teeth act her off the screen here. Her character is hilariously inconsistent, she's hero-villain-hero, actually the only consistent thing is her bad acting.
I actually enjoyed the last twenty minutes when Optimus Hitler shows up, one of our "heroes" attempts a daring escape by jogging away very slowly and is decapitated by Optimus Hitler in an unintentionally hilarious scene.
The final battle is so naff that I couldn't help but smile, after Optimus Hitlers saucer crashes by aid of Jake Busey suddenly turning from villain to hero, presumably because the script told him to, we get a final face off between Optimus Hitler and Dominique Swain's bad acting. And if this film taught me anything its that the nastiest of evil is no match for unconvincing acting as Optimus Hitler sinks into the Antarctic waters immediately followed by Dominique Swain accepting a marriage proposal from some forgettable guy .as you do .after fighting a Nazi robot zombie Hitler.
As movies from Global Asylum productions go this wasn't the worst, but that's akin to saying that stale biscuits are tastier than moldy bread
I recall zombie robot Hitler, imagine Hitlers head on a mini Optimus Prime body, I'm calling him Optimus Hitler, and with the incredible gift of sub par Playstation 2 graphical power he attempts to take over all non Aryan countries by dropping flesh eating bacterial bombs from his flying Nazi saucer yes you read that correctly
A flying Nazi saucer which emerges from the center of the Earth no less, now I'm no expert on geology but I do know the center of the Earth is roughly 4000 miles below the Earths surface, I only bring this up as our "heroes" and I use the term heroes lightly as this group is as forgettable as a week old cheese sandwich left out in the sun, journey down a shaft that is nowhere near 4000 miles, perhaps 2 miles if I'm being very generous.
A CGI snow-cat vehicle (surely renting a real one would have been more cost effective)
A Wilhelm scream in opening skirmish, I call it a skirmish but it was really just four guys in a row shooting at a few other guys with no actual sense that they were shooting at each other, like watching one sided tennis, watch it and see.. Actually just watch grass grow instead.
A zombie Nazi gang rape (just an excuse to get gratuitous boob shots in) and whatever happened to that girl? Did they kill her afterward? It all seemed so unnecessary and left a nasty taste in mouth.
"Saw" type torture porn scenes with the most efficient face peeling in history.
I'm no expert on the fine art of peeling someone's face off but I imagine an incision across the forehead followed by a quick pull would not allow a face to come off unspoilt and then be stitched onto another head, it wasn't like that in "Face Off" which segues nicely into Dominique Swain who starred in that and whose career has gone so far down the toilet that Jake Buseys teeth act her off the screen here. Her character is hilariously inconsistent, she's hero-villain-hero, actually the only consistent thing is her bad acting.
I actually enjoyed the last twenty minutes when Optimus Hitler shows up, one of our "heroes" attempts a daring escape by jogging away very slowly and is decapitated by Optimus Hitler in an unintentionally hilarious scene.
The final battle is so naff that I couldn't help but smile, after Optimus Hitlers saucer crashes by aid of Jake Busey suddenly turning from villain to hero, presumably because the script told him to, we get a final face off between Optimus Hitler and Dominique Swain's bad acting. And if this film taught me anything its that the nastiest of evil is no match for unconvincing acting as Optimus Hitler sinks into the Antarctic waters immediately followed by Dominique Swain accepting a marriage proposal from some forgettable guy .as you do .after fighting a Nazi robot zombie Hitler.
As movies from Global Asylum productions go this wasn't the worst, but that's akin to saying that stale biscuits are tastier than moldy bread
The Only Horror Is The Acting.
alex-frey-pattaya27 July 2012
Jake Busey.... if I was mean i would let these 2 words speak for themselves and submit this review... having said that Jake Busey was the best actor in the entire movie.
"Nazis at the Center of the Earth" is by far the worst "movie" I have seen in many years. The acting is horrific, there are free phone apps that produce better special effects and the story was never meant to be taken serious.
There seems to be a scene for this kind of trash movies and judging by some reviews these people totally like it. Apparently I am not part of this scene and I am judging a movie based on it's quality and I am very generous by giving it 2 stars.
More than once the actors in the movie are complaining how cold it is in the Antarctica, they doing so by wearing Jeans and sneakers which is obviously the typical outdoor lab coat for arctic scientists. I could easily oversee the fact that even when it is freezing cold nobody seems to have enough body heat that there would be steam coming out of their mouth. Like I said i could oversee that but i don't want to. There are ridiculous cut scenes such as Jake Busey laying his hand on someones should, this shot must have excited the director because he used it 3 times.
The Storyline is not meant to be taken serious and i can live that, however even a nonsense story requires actors doing their job. I was asking myself, there are ten thousands of unemployed "actors" in L.A. does nobody of them have the slightest talent to get into a movie like that? It reminded me on a school play I was in, we also took awkwardly long breaks between sentences and stuttered occasionally.
"Nazis at the Center of the Earth" is by far the worst "movie" I have seen in many years. The acting is horrific, there are free phone apps that produce better special effects and the story was never meant to be taken serious.
There seems to be a scene for this kind of trash movies and judging by some reviews these people totally like it. Apparently I am not part of this scene and I am judging a movie based on it's quality and I am very generous by giving it 2 stars.
More than once the actors in the movie are complaining how cold it is in the Antarctica, they doing so by wearing Jeans and sneakers which is obviously the typical outdoor lab coat for arctic scientists. I could easily oversee the fact that even when it is freezing cold nobody seems to have enough body heat that there would be steam coming out of their mouth. Like I said i could oversee that but i don't want to. There are ridiculous cut scenes such as Jake Busey laying his hand on someones should, this shot must have excited the director because he used it 3 times.
The Storyline is not meant to be taken serious and i can live that, however even a nonsense story requires actors doing their job. I was asking myself, there are ten thousands of unemployed "actors" in L.A. does nobody of them have the slightest talent to get into a movie like that? It reminded me on a school play I was in, we also took awkwardly long breaks between sentences and stuttered occasionally.
Awful...Yet Some Kind of Classic
bowwowguy4 May 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This film should join Plan 9 from Outer Space and Troll 2 on the Top Ten list of worst-and-therefore-funniest films of all time. While the first two films were products of sincere incompetence, this picture is much more calculated. It knows exactly how awful it is. That makes it somewhat less entertaining than Plan 9 or Troll 2, because deliberate camp is never as good as the unconscious kind.
Still, the cast and crew were clearly in on the joke, and at the wrap party they probably got as drunk as possible because (1.) they knew they were making a crap masterpiece that might eventually become a midnight-movie cult fave or (2.) they wanted to forget the whole experience as fast as possible. Maybe both. Not that you can blame them.
Anyway, there are so many scenes here that are fall-out-of-your-chair ludicrous that you'd need a heart of stone to not respond to the world- class wackness.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Dr. Mengele, the Nazi surgeon who conducted horrible experiments in WWII concentration camps, is apparently alive if not so well and living/experimenting in an underground lab deep under Antarctica(!), where he and his zombie Nazi cohorts are preparing to usher in the Fourth Reich. Yup, all the ingredients for comedy are here! And sure enough, an unsuspecting team of South Pole researchers stumbles onto this secret and mayhem (plus many laughs) ensues.
Faces ripped off. Cute girls manhandled by living-dead Wehrmacht types. Some stuff about a flesh-eating virus as a tool of world conquest. Does it matter? You can tune in and out of the dialog (or whole scenes) and not miss anything that matters. It doesn't get any better (i.e., worse) than this.
Apart from the fire-sale CGI and overmugging that passes for acting, the high point of the flick is surely the scenes involving a reanimated Hitler encased in what looks like a junkyard reboot of the psychopathic cyborg Cain in Robocop 2. Today Antarctica, Tomorrow the World. Ja wohl, Mein Fuhrer! For sheer looniness (and technical ineptitude), the shots of him tramping over the ice in pursuit of the heroine/hero at film's end will have your eyes doing slot-machine rolls.
A good bad move like this isn't for lovers of cinematic art, or even well-engineered trash like Transformers 2, but it's fine for a slow night when there's not much else on the tube and you need a few cheap giggles.
I have a high tolerance for over-the-top garbage that doesn't take itself too seriously, so this gets 5 stars from me. But of course I get why people who may not share my tolerance would be baffled by that relatively high rating.
Still, the cast and crew were clearly in on the joke, and at the wrap party they probably got as drunk as possible because (1.) they knew they were making a crap masterpiece that might eventually become a midnight-movie cult fave or (2.) they wanted to forget the whole experience as fast as possible. Maybe both. Not that you can blame them.
Anyway, there are so many scenes here that are fall-out-of-your-chair ludicrous that you'd need a heart of stone to not respond to the world- class wackness.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Dr. Mengele, the Nazi surgeon who conducted horrible experiments in WWII concentration camps, is apparently alive if not so well and living/experimenting in an underground lab deep under Antarctica(!), where he and his zombie Nazi cohorts are preparing to usher in the Fourth Reich. Yup, all the ingredients for comedy are here! And sure enough, an unsuspecting team of South Pole researchers stumbles onto this secret and mayhem (plus many laughs) ensues.
Faces ripped off. Cute girls manhandled by living-dead Wehrmacht types. Some stuff about a flesh-eating virus as a tool of world conquest. Does it matter? You can tune in and out of the dialog (or whole scenes) and not miss anything that matters. It doesn't get any better (i.e., worse) than this.
Apart from the fire-sale CGI and overmugging that passes for acting, the high point of the flick is surely the scenes involving a reanimated Hitler encased in what looks like a junkyard reboot of the psychopathic cyborg Cain in Robocop 2. Today Antarctica, Tomorrow the World. Ja wohl, Mein Fuhrer! For sheer looniness (and technical ineptitude), the shots of him tramping over the ice in pursuit of the heroine/hero at film's end will have your eyes doing slot-machine rolls.
A good bad move like this isn't for lovers of cinematic art, or even well-engineered trash like Transformers 2, but it's fine for a slow night when there's not much else on the tube and you need a few cheap giggles.
I have a high tolerance for over-the-top garbage that doesn't take itself too seriously, so this gets 5 stars from me. But of course I get why people who may not share my tolerance would be baffled by that relatively high rating.
Has to be seen to be believed.
Bob-456 July 2012
Hard to imagine selling this movie to a bunch of Hollywood film executives. No idea why they called it "...at the center of the earth," as it cheapens the movie and, in no way takes place at the center of the earth. Lots of "lost" history here, including the "hollow earth" theory, NAZI bases in Antarctica, NAZI UFOs, etc.
Very uneven production values. The gore is very realistic; however, the cyborg is unbelievably bad in some scenes. Continuity in some of the action scenes is also pretty bad, particularly with the cyborg. The nudity, albeit brief, is pretty gratuitous and the abortion without anesthesia and the "zombie-like" rape is downright distasteful.
Sound and photography are excellent. If you can handle the more gamy elements of the movie, you should give it a watch. I give "NAZIs at the Center of the Earth" a weak "6".
Very uneven production values. The gore is very realistic; however, the cyborg is unbelievably bad in some scenes. Continuity in some of the action scenes is also pretty bad, particularly with the cyborg. The nudity, albeit brief, is pretty gratuitous and the abortion without anesthesia and the "zombie-like" rape is downright distasteful.
Sound and photography are excellent. If you can handle the more gamy elements of the movie, you should give it a watch. I give "NAZIs at the Center of the Earth" a weak "6".
To bad to be an accident
alex-vg-brown18 September 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is one of the worst excuses for a film I've ever seen. When I was watching it, I had a hard time shaking the idea that this was intentional. That the director somehow thought that if he made the title cheesy enough and the effects fake enough and the science wrong enough, the film would in someway come off as an endearing tribute to "B Movies".
Based on the way some fellow reviewers have showered praise on a movie, which in any other context would be seen as a smelly piece of utter garbage and a waste of time, it seems that the director was successful.
But I am not fooled... and I intend to save you your 90 minutes which can be much better spent doing ANYTHING else. Perhaps watching a movie with actual talent and creativity?
At one point in the movie, Mengele (yes Mengele) rips a guys face off and patches it on one of his Nazi friends as a way of "staying young". The actors don't even act cold.... in Antarctica! And if that wasn't enough, the special effects are about on par with a middle school animation class.
If people want to make a movie intentionally sub-par, thats one thing. But for people to actually praise it for being bad, especially with so many good movies out there... Well thats a new ball game entirely.
You deserve to know the truth, and that is this movie makes you cringe it's so ridiculous. (/rant)
Based on the way some fellow reviewers have showered praise on a movie, which in any other context would be seen as a smelly piece of utter garbage and a waste of time, it seems that the director was successful.
But I am not fooled... and I intend to save you your 90 minutes which can be much better spent doing ANYTHING else. Perhaps watching a movie with actual talent and creativity?
At one point in the movie, Mengele (yes Mengele) rips a guys face off and patches it on one of his Nazi friends as a way of "staying young". The actors don't even act cold.... in Antarctica! And if that wasn't enough, the special effects are about on par with a middle school animation class.
If people want to make a movie intentionally sub-par, thats one thing. But for people to actually praise it for being bad, especially with so many good movies out there... Well thats a new ball game entirely.
You deserve to know the truth, and that is this movie makes you cringe it's so ridiculous. (/rant)
Incredible mix of Robotic spaceship flying Nazis
swedish_chef_dave21 April 2012
Warning: Spoilers
I really didn't know what to expect from something with such a bizarre title, which isn't always a good sign, I expected something appalling to the point of humorous but this was way beyond appalling. Terribly cheap special effects are always a high point of such low budget movies and this didn't disappoint. From the badly done animations of snowcats and the amazing spaceship, how did it jump from antarctic to Nazi spaceships, the gory experimentation was just pathetic and pointlessly over complicated, with horror usually less means more in the way of heightened tension but ripping out someones brains while complaining isn't conducive to tension, overall it was well filmed but as always with B movies it was shockingly poorly scripted with wooden acting. It was disjointed and quite frankly silly, a nazi created wonderland under the ice with spaceships just stretched credibility to infinity.
This was bad, oh so bad...
paul_haakonsen12 May 2013
Warning: Spoilers
First of all, don't you just love it when a movie have alternate titles? Here on IMDb this movie is titled "Nazis at the Center of the Earth", but when purchased from Amazon, the DVD is titled "BloodStörm". Why? Right, well moving along to the actual movie. Wow, just wow! This movie was bad on so many levels. First of all, the story - Nazi's surviving from World War II in the arctic region where they have become undead zombie-like creatures? Sure, why not. But to make matters worse, lets throw some alien UFO technology into it as well. What else could possibly go wrong?
The acting in the movie was rather staggering and painful to watch. Not even Dominique Swain could manage to do anything for this movie, and her performance here was actually quite bad. Usually I enjoy her movies, but this particular movie was painful to sit through. And Jake Busey, well I will not even go there, as I have been told if you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all.
The effects in the movie were adequate, though not really top notch. So at least that was a bright moment in this otherwise painful movie experience.
As an avid zombie aficionado I come across a lot of zombie movies, many being B-movies and low budget productions, this movie however, is without a doubt one of the most ridiculous zombie movies I have ever had the pleasure of stumbling upon.
Oh, and before I forget, the crowning of the movie had to be the preserved head of Adolf Hitler living on in a jar and sitting atop of a robot skeleton. Are you kidding me? That was the ultimate low point of the movie when that was revealed, and most of the times the CGI animation for this robotic Hitler was just awful to look at. There are some great swings and misses coming out of Hollywood, and this is definitely one of those.
"Nazis at the Center of the Earth" (or "BloodStörm") is a movie to be avoided. I don't say that often, but this movie has absolutely nothing to offer, unless you are beyond a hardcore fan of any of the people on the cast list.
The acting in the movie was rather staggering and painful to watch. Not even Dominique Swain could manage to do anything for this movie, and her performance here was actually quite bad. Usually I enjoy her movies, but this particular movie was painful to sit through. And Jake Busey, well I will not even go there, as I have been told if you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all.
The effects in the movie were adequate, though not really top notch. So at least that was a bright moment in this otherwise painful movie experience.
As an avid zombie aficionado I come across a lot of zombie movies, many being B-movies and low budget productions, this movie however, is without a doubt one of the most ridiculous zombie movies I have ever had the pleasure of stumbling upon.
Oh, and before I forget, the crowning of the movie had to be the preserved head of Adolf Hitler living on in a jar and sitting atop of a robot skeleton. Are you kidding me? That was the ultimate low point of the movie when that was revealed, and most of the times the CGI animation for this robotic Hitler was just awful to look at. There are some great swings and misses coming out of Hollywood, and this is definitely one of those.
"Nazis at the Center of the Earth" (or "BloodStörm") is a movie to be avoided. I don't say that often, but this movie has absolutely nothing to offer, unless you are beyond a hardcore fan of any of the people on the cast list.
Intentionally Bad...Hilarity!
bensfiction25 May 2012
Look, if you're looking for deep horror with some raw emotion... you're clearly on the wrong page. This film is not intended to be taken seriously (those of you who are have my sympathy.) It's meant merely as a form of B entertainment.
Here's the idea, a group of Nazi's discovered a place where they could stay hidden in Antarctica, now a group of scientists must fight their way out of this nazi cold hell in order to get back home! The script is beyond ridiculous (with the lovable Jake Busey delivering most of the trifling lines;) the practical effects aren't terrible for a b-movie, but the cgi is so laughable it's a little frightening (I'm talking to you robohitler!) All in all, if you're looking for a fun movie on a boring night, this is your movie, it's available in most redboxes and should be coming to Netflix by the end of summer.
Here's the idea, a group of Nazi's discovered a place where they could stay hidden in Antarctica, now a group of scientists must fight their way out of this nazi cold hell in order to get back home! The script is beyond ridiculous (with the lovable Jake Busey delivering most of the trifling lines;) the practical effects aren't terrible for a b-movie, but the cgi is so laughable it's a little frightening (I'm talking to you robohitler!) All in all, if you're looking for a fun movie on a boring night, this is your movie, it's available in most redboxes and should be coming to Netflix by the end of summer.
You have no idea what is possible once science is liberated from emotion and ethics.
lastliberal-853-25370812 October 2013
Now, I heard there was going to be an Adolf robot in this film developed by Dr. Mengele, so I had to watch just to see that.
These Nazis that live under the Antarctic have their own sun and grow their own food. That's the Sci Fi part of this film that crosses genres. But, we can't immediately dismiss this as there are many who believe in Agartha, a legendary city that is said to reside in the earth's core.
In their effort to establish a New World Order, a lot of blood is spilled.
Ray guns, a spaceship, and a robot Hitler. Oh, what fun!
Sometimes you just have to wonder what kind of mind comes up with these pictures, and why they get made.
These Nazis that live under the Antarctic have their own sun and grow their own food. That's the Sci Fi part of this film that crosses genres. But, we can't immediately dismiss this as there are many who believe in Agartha, a legendary city that is said to reside in the earth's core.
In their effort to establish a New World Order, a lot of blood is spilled.
Ray guns, a spaceship, and a robot Hitler. Oh, what fun!
Sometimes you just have to wonder what kind of mind comes up with these pictures, and why they get made.
absolutely terrible
Dennis-spencer9324 April 2012
i would have given this film minus stars if id have been able!!!!!!, it is without doubt thee worst film i have ever seen (and I've seen sharktopuss). please i implore you don't even think of watching this atrocity to film. on a brighter note the effects are terrible and the research department has for some reason in 1945 got Joseph mengele as an old man??????? back to the effects cardboard planes, blue fire & and arctic drillers that don't look where or what there drilling into makes for a shocking movie among a long list of other failures. and please don't even get me started on Jake Buseys acting ability. all in all id give it -55/10
Terribly awesome!
thernan229 April 2012
I'm not sure what some of these reviewers were expecting from a movie entitled "Nazi's at the Center of the Earth." Without giving away any spoilers, I can tell you that this is one of the best, terribly awesome movies I have ever seen. The plot is ridiculous, the acting is terrible, the special effects are a joke. But if you are thinking about renting a movie with this title, all of that is to be expected and celebrated. Even though the character development was bad,I couldn't look away because I didn't want to miss a single plot twist. Something unbelievable was happening every moment. I have no idea what sort of mind could come up with this movie or who would jump at the opportunity to make it, but I'm sure glad they did. This movie does so much wrong that it is completely right!
If you enjoy ridiculous B movies, this is one you have to watch!
If you enjoy ridiculous B movies, this is one you have to watch!
Horrendous. Marvellous. Wonderful. Dreadful. Genius.
cjmccracken6 May 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Nothing instills confidence in a movie like the name Jake Busey. I was no more than five minutes into the running time when I had decided that I had found myself a friend in this film. Busey plays a suspiciously Aryan research scientist posted at a remote facility in Antarctica. A man whose credibility has been questioned by his peers, due to past associates disappearing and his inclusion of flesh-eating bacteria in his backpack. The discovery of a secret underground bunker leads to the imprisonment of the scientists by secret underground snow Nazi zombies led by the White Angel himself; Dr Mengele. Snow based Nazi films and Nazi zombie films are nothing new. We have had a few of them over the last few years, Outpost and Dead Snow being the most notable. With films about zombie Nazis however, one has to bear something in mind. They're zombies. They're also Nazis. That's usually all a film really needs. OK, well not always, but in this case the film errs on just the right side of cheese, making it exceptionally watchable. The gore is present in abundance and some of the scenes are actually a bit on the gross side. Maybe not gross exactly, there's a 'shower' scene which features the funniest Nazi zombie gang rape you're likely to see this year and an impromptu abortion scene would probably raise a few eyebrows should anyone actually ever watch this movie. I would like to particularly congratulate the filmmakers on their use of blue CGI for the explosive and artillery related effects, I am a big fan of blue CGI. This probably dates back to my childhood when basically all movies had blue electrical effects in them. There's some brilliantly evil and gruesome bits as I was just mentioning, but it's never taken in anyway seriously, brains and faces are slapped against the walls with resounding 'splats' on a regular basis. Mengele is great; Busey is fantastic and just when you think it's all going to end horribly in a sea of tedium and tired cliché you are presented with the film's coup de grace. Zombie Robot Hitler. Yes. Zombie Robot Hitler. And his Nazi UFO which is loaded with flesh eating virus missiles. The more I think about the friend I found in this movie, the more I think we should take things to the next level. Find this. Watch this. Don't blame me.
The Title Says A Lot, But It's A Little Better Than You Might Expect
sddavis6320 August 2012
There are times when the title of a movie alone is so ridiculously over the top that the movie becomes irresistible. You have to watch, just to figure out "what the **** were they thinking?" This is truly one of those movies. In fact, it may be the classic example. I mean, how can you resist a movie entitled "Nazis At The Centre Of The Earth"? And the truly surprising thing about this is that while it's not good, it's watchable all the way through. As a matter of fact, the first half of this isn't bad at all. It's obviously ridiculous, but then again - so was Nazi Germany, in a grotesque sort of way, and while ridiculous, this actually seems plausible in the sense that it's something that I can imagine the elite Nazis would have done if possible at the end of the War as they watched their Fatherland be reduced to ruins and rubble.
The story has these elite Nazis escaping to Antarctica, where they establish an underground colony where they continue their plans for world domination, along with grotesque medical experiments that help them to survive all these decades. As I said, that strikes me as something the Nazis would have done if they could have done it. The movie proceeds with a team of scientists working in the Antarctic being kidnapped by stormtroopers and forced to become either accomplices in conducting the experiments or subjects of the experiments. That first half of the movie was actually OK.
From that point on, though, it just became silly - and I mean nonsensically silly. The silliness really began when the medical experiments resulted in Hitler's head being brought back to life and contained within some sort of robotic body that gave him some type of superhero status, not unlike the robotic suits you see in "District 9" or even "Avatar." Then there was the whole Nazi UFO creation that was going to release flesh-eating virus on the planet, except, of course, for the "Aryan nations" (although how they were going to prevent it from spreading to the "Aryan nations" was never explained.) I also wondered - apparently the Nazis in Antarctica were getting a regular supply of people for their medical experiments. All things considered, there aren't that many people in Antarctica, and there are certainly no indigent or homeless people there who could be snatched without anyone noticing. So how is it that no one seems to have noticed that for some years people in Antarctica have been going missing? Curious. And yet, as silly as this movie gets, you keep watching. You know the Nazis will be defeated; you wonder a bit who's going to survive - so you have to stick with it. (3/10)
The story has these elite Nazis escaping to Antarctica, where they establish an underground colony where they continue their plans for world domination, along with grotesque medical experiments that help them to survive all these decades. As I said, that strikes me as something the Nazis would have done if they could have done it. The movie proceeds with a team of scientists working in the Antarctic being kidnapped by stormtroopers and forced to become either accomplices in conducting the experiments or subjects of the experiments. That first half of the movie was actually OK.
From that point on, though, it just became silly - and I mean nonsensically silly. The silliness really began when the medical experiments resulted in Hitler's head being brought back to life and contained within some sort of robotic body that gave him some type of superhero status, not unlike the robotic suits you see in "District 9" or even "Avatar." Then there was the whole Nazi UFO creation that was going to release flesh-eating virus on the planet, except, of course, for the "Aryan nations" (although how they were going to prevent it from spreading to the "Aryan nations" was never explained.) I also wondered - apparently the Nazis in Antarctica were getting a regular supply of people for their medical experiments. All things considered, there aren't that many people in Antarctica, and there are certainly no indigent or homeless people there who could be snatched without anyone noticing. So how is it that no one seems to have noticed that for some years people in Antarctica have been going missing? Curious. And yet, as silly as this movie gets, you keep watching. You know the Nazis will be defeated; you wonder a bit who's going to survive - so you have to stick with it. (3/10)
Stupidly hilarious
Cechitout554 May 2012
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I think the combination of Jake Busey and zombie Nazis would be enough, but no, the filmmakers went the extra mile. They stereotypically killed off the Jewish guy at first glance. They took the controversial route and used embryonic stem cells to revive Hitler using a steampunk robot... absolutely groundbreaking! Then there was a giant Nazi UFO? What doesn't this movie have? I was waiting for a grizzled space marine and then maybe a black guy saying "I got a bad feeling about this"
The visual effects were of neanderthal quality by today's standards. They took Nerf guns and painted them to pass off as futuristic Nazi weapons. They even messed up the swastika once by drawing it backwards. How hard is it to Google image search a swastika? The only reason I'm giving it a five and not a two is because of the laughing fit that ensued when I saw Robo-Hitler emerge from the stem cell machine.
But hey... I cant complain, there was boobs in it.
The visual effects were of neanderthal quality by today's standards. They took Nerf guns and painted them to pass off as futuristic Nazi weapons. They even messed up the swastika once by drawing it backwards. How hard is it to Google image search a swastika? The only reason I'm giving it a five and not a two is because of the laughing fit that ensued when I saw Robo-Hitler emerge from the stem cell machine.
But hey... I cant complain, there was boobs in it.
Honest review from someone not connected to this film
klc20022 June 2012
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OK - I'm VERY suspicious of some of these high ratings - I'm guessing it's family and friends of the film students who made this film (it MUST have been students, surely?) This film is basically badly acted, humourless and sadistic. There are no logical plot points, no acting skills on display, no characters that are either logical or sympathetic. Acting is of the teak/walnut variety, CGI is mostly early 90's video game quality (the robot Hitler is laughable), and why go to such efforts to kidnap the top scientists of their fields but then immediately kill the Jewish doctor ('cos he's a Jew yeah? huh?), and gang rape one of the non-Aryan looking female scientists, it's actually a shame this got funding. Yuck. No wit, no charm you see? That's the difference between this and Iron Sky. Go see that - it's great, witty and makes some good satirical points unlike this hogwash.
Hahaha
vivelequebeclibregreen1028 September 2012
This film sucked so much Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen felt good about it self.No seriously this is a terrible film.I walked in to this film hoping to find a hidden gem,what I found was actually a load of crap.best part of the movie :Jake Busey,seriously BEST ACTOR EVER! His agent,not so much.the plot is ridiculous,in some cases that could make a fairly okay movie,but in this case ,it took itself too seriously,which I guess hurt the film. Another problem with the film,is the lack of care I gave about the characters (10 min left in the film,and I still didn't any of their names).Oh and the abuse the fact that their snow base is called Nipplesomething.
Very disappointing!
trelathon-351-96727623 April 2012
No, I'm not going to give away any of the plot! There isn't that much to give away, to be honest. If you watch the trailer.....and I have!!!! Straight away, you can see the cheapness of the movie. It just lacks the professionalism of real feature films. There's no atmosphere, or suspense that you felt when watching such greats as: Tightrope, or Marney of the Hitchcock era; or any of the late great Hammer productions. I have to say, that if Gary....of the Busey clan were watching this, he'd balk at his younger sibling Jake's performance. My vote for this film, is a lowly 1-10, and I'm being generous.
The Old Fart.
The Old Fart.
Misplaced villains add sub-zero fun
PhilipGHarris29 May 2012
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Nazis at the Centre of the Earth is an obvious, quick, cash in on the far superior Iron Sky. One deals with the subject as a tongue-in-cheek romp, paying sensitive attention to its subject matter, and the other is this film. In fact it is a surprise, given the script, that any of the actors thought taking part was a good idea. Yes, they may be jobbing for work, but really are they this desperate?
Of this motley crew worthy of mention is Lilan Bowden who is capable of adopting more than five emotions, Jake Busey, who at least knows his own limitations by this point and manages to just get more screen time than his teeth, and, James Maxwell, who pulls about as much out of a robot Hitler, with limited lines, as you could expect.
Where this film is seriously lacking is the awful writing and insensitive way it treats its subject matter. Involving Mengele adds some avoidable anti-Semitism as the Jewish character is vaporised. The females throughout the film have some of the worst roles, being represented poorly at every level. The woman of German heritage and Norwegian woman seem to side with the Nazi's. Another has her breasts ripped out of her costume and is then raped and the final one is lobotomised. All this happening after we are told that they are valuable scientists who have been sourced deliberately for their scientific knowledge.
We are also expected to believe that these are the stupidest and worst surrender-monkey scientists that ever existed. All busying themselves to help the Nazi cause with hardly a word of protest. You also wonder where all their Antarctic gear went when they arrive at the centre of the Earth and how much time and resource the Nazi's had to build a seemingly endless base there.
When a film maintains a cracking pace you often don't look for the cracks but this film crawls, like a crippled millipede, across the screen making you want to find reasons to criticise it. The possibility of creating a Doug Mc.Clure style adventure sadly missed and forgotten. In fact remove the Nazi's and replace them with almost anything else and certain aspects of the film would be saved.
Cheap special effects, uninspired music and faulty directing top off the issues with this film making it almost impossible to recommend to anyone.
Of this motley crew worthy of mention is Lilan Bowden who is capable of adopting more than five emotions, Jake Busey, who at least knows his own limitations by this point and manages to just get more screen time than his teeth, and, James Maxwell, who pulls about as much out of a robot Hitler, with limited lines, as you could expect.
Where this film is seriously lacking is the awful writing and insensitive way it treats its subject matter. Involving Mengele adds some avoidable anti-Semitism as the Jewish character is vaporised. The females throughout the film have some of the worst roles, being represented poorly at every level. The woman of German heritage and Norwegian woman seem to side with the Nazi's. Another has her breasts ripped out of her costume and is then raped and the final one is lobotomised. All this happening after we are told that they are valuable scientists who have been sourced deliberately for their scientific knowledge.
We are also expected to believe that these are the stupidest and worst surrender-monkey scientists that ever existed. All busying themselves to help the Nazi cause with hardly a word of protest. You also wonder where all their Antarctic gear went when they arrive at the centre of the Earth and how much time and resource the Nazi's had to build a seemingly endless base there.
When a film maintains a cracking pace you often don't look for the cracks but this film crawls, like a crippled millipede, across the screen making you want to find reasons to criticise it. The possibility of creating a Doug Mc.Clure style adventure sadly missed and forgotten. In fact remove the Nazi's and replace them with almost anything else and certain aspects of the film would be saved.
Cheap special effects, uninspired music and faulty directing top off the issues with this film making it almost impossible to recommend to anyone.
There's a rumor going around ..........
merklekranz15 July 2013
That this is supposed to be a good bad movie. Actually there probably is no such thing as a good bad movie. Bad is bad, and "Nazi's at the Center of the Earth" is bad. Now that we have established that, and recognized no talent when we see it, let's find out why this movie is a complete zero (actually a 1, because IMDb doesn't allow zeros). Because I have seen sh_t fights at the monkey house that made more sense than this badly conceived disaster of epic proportions. Jake Busey, who I actually like, should be ashamed, very ashamed, for his ill advised involvement in what can only be described as a monumental crapfest, with bad script, bad character development, bad acting, bad effects, and no redeeming qualities. Not laughingly bad, just bad. - MERK
A crime against humanity
Manuel-Hoerth11 June 2012
This is one of those few films that make me wonder why it's not possible to rate a movie 0 out of 10. Everything in this film was just plain awful. The acting, the story, the wardrobe, the equipment... hell even the editing, the music and the camera work was bad (the camera is shaking constantly). And I could probably do better CGI on a Zuse I (Nazi Computer).
Also i couldn't make out a single word of what was said or written in German - and I AM German!
Not good enough to achieve the title "worst movie ever".
But I grant it that it was still better than a few of Asylums other atrocities like "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies" or "Transmorphers".
Anyway go watch Iron Sky instead (of which this is a rip-off) or play the old Wolfenstein 3D (which has better computer graphics as well and a more convincing "story").
Also i couldn't make out a single word of what was said or written in German - and I AM German!
Not good enough to achieve the title "worst movie ever".
But I grant it that it was still better than a few of Asylums other atrocities like "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies" or "Transmorphers".
Anyway go watch Iron Sky instead (of which this is a rip-off) or play the old Wolfenstein 3D (which has better computer graphics as well and a more convincing "story").
Amazingly surprising
dashdespatch22 April 2012
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I expected this to be really really bad so waited till the wife took son back to univ. At first i was not sure about the acting but i think it is meant to be a bit hammy i thought the actor who played the mad doctor looked familiar turned out to be Gary Buseys son!
OK its cheesy not hi end cgi but its heart is in the right place its all done a bit tongue in cheek is it a spoof of the thing and transformers? who cares zombie Nazis, robot Hitler ,giant Luftwaffe UFO whats not to like?!
Passed a Sunday afternoon much better than expected
OK its cheesy not hi end cgi but its heart is in the right place its all done a bit tongue in cheek is it a spoof of the thing and transformers? who cares zombie Nazis, robot Hitler ,giant Luftwaffe UFO whats not to like?!
Passed a Sunday afternoon much better than expected
A good Bad Movie
mrginlatvia18 May 2012
Man-o-man – with a crazy combination of really bad acting, high-quality filmmaking, terrific special effects, a truly weird storyline & laugh-out-loud screaming scenes (here the actors actually make their first & only attempts to act – but it's way, way too late for hysteric theatrics by then). After all is said & done this absurd video concoction cannot hold a candle to another trash-flick, the British-made "Strippers vs. Werewolves," where the acting is professional not amateur & the dialogue is Shakespeare compared to the trivialities & clichés dripping from the "Nazis at the Center of the Earth" cast's mouths. But then, "Strippers vs. Werewolves" is another review entirely. Bad movies always make me cry. Who sang that – Sue Thompson? Never mind, "Nazis at the Center of the Earth" made me laugh, now & then. It's always refreshing to see a good bad movie.
I don't know what to say
mefavretto15 August 2012
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I give this movie a 5, which is the exact average between 0 (for the movie itself) and 10 (for how much I laughed).
There is nothing right in this movie. Nothing. There are holes in the plots so big that the entire universe can pass through. Science wise, it is less credible than a scientific paper written by a 2 year old child. Visual effects are remarkably horrible. The Robot-Hitler is amazingly ridiculous. Characters act like retards, not to mention the poor acting.
Nevertheless, I watched this movie twice. If you take it for what it is meant to be (or at least I hope that was the intention of the director), a parody of sci-fi-nazi movies, then you will love it to death.
There is nothing right in this movie. Nothing. There are holes in the plots so big that the entire universe can pass through. Science wise, it is less credible than a scientific paper written by a 2 year old child. Visual effects are remarkably horrible. The Robot-Hitler is amazingly ridiculous. Characters act like retards, not to mention the poor acting.
Nevertheless, I watched this movie twice. If you take it for what it is meant to be (or at least I hope that was the intention of the director), a parody of sci-fi-nazi movies, then you will love it to death.
So ridiculously stupid you HAVE to see it!
AndyVanScoyoc27 February 2019
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Host a beer and pizza party and put this magnificently worthless trash on and between getting fallen down drunk and/or sick on too much pizza, you'll have a ball.
Could have been a good movie, but just wasn't, so between the HORRIBLE make up, the uproariously AWFUL mechanical Hitler and the bad acting, you might as well have a blast laughing, trashing and spewing beer out your nose at the sheer BAD that makes this movie a marvelously gutter dump treasure.
Highly recommended for the totally brainless who want to just have a good time watching a stupendously ghastly film.
Could have been a good movie, but just wasn't, so between the HORRIBLE make up, the uproariously AWFUL mechanical Hitler and the bad acting, you might as well have a blast laughing, trashing and spewing beer out your nose at the sheer BAD that makes this movie a marvelously gutter dump treasure.
Highly recommended for the totally brainless who want to just have a good time watching a stupendously ghastly film.
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