Thursday, 03 November 2022 10:42

War Hunt/ 2022

 

WARHUNT

 

US, 2022, 93 minutes, Colour.

Robert Knepper, Jackson Rathbone, Mickey Rourke.

Directed by Mauro Borelli.

 

warhunt 2022A small budget World War II action film filmed in Latvia. It is one of those films that used to go “straight-to-video”. It also a horror film.

This is one of those war films focusing on a particular platoon, a mission, interactions amongst the men, then disaster descending on them. The tone of the film is set by the opening, a plane in flight, mysterious cluster of birds, the plane crashing.

The mission for the men, in France, 1944, part of the country occupied by the Germans, is to find the plane and survive. However, the commander, Major Johnston, played by Mickey Rourke, confronts the leader of the expedition, Robert Knepper, and insists that an extra man, played by Jackson Rathbone, accompanying the group in the search.

So far, so ordinary – but atmospheric, and much of the action in the dark and during the night.

The group come upon a mysterious windmill, one man looking in seeing naked women. They also capture a German prisoner who refuses to speak.

And then strange things begin to happen, a guard encountering a woman and then shooting her. And reluctant to real reveal the truth to the men. The German prisoner mutters in German, witches. Then the plane is found, but the men all disappeared. But, the special agent finds the role of film that he was sent for.

What follows is a list of horror occasions, the finding of corpses, one sewn up but nothing inside, and one of the soldier having hallucination of his girlfriend coming to see him, the leader losing his mind… The special agent and one of the men search of the windmill which has disappeared. However, they find the right light and venture into the windmill which, of course, has many many rooms, corridors, tunnels, basements, and confrontations with the witches.

Major Johnston also turns up, a copy of a second book which has been searching for for years also in the windmill. He and the agent finish as the last two survivors, their finding mustard gas, masks, fighting anniversaries, the major losing his mask and dying, the agent emerging… But to what kind of world?

In the basement is an enormous tree, in blue light, the Tree of Life, which has been nourished by the blood of dead soldiers – enabling spectre soldiers to arise, and that Hitler could use these two when the war control Europe!

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