Outpost 11

 

When this blu-ray turned up I thought to myself, Outpost 11?  Isn’t the third one out next year?  After my confusion disappeared, I realised this film had nothing to do with the Nazi Zombie series but a thriller set in the Artic wastelands.

 

In an alternate history timeline, the British have been fighting the Prussian Empire and three soldiers are hauled up in a outpost in the middle of nowhere.  The Commanding Officer spends most of his time shooting hares for supper, the young Private is just that, young and naïve and finally the old lifelong soldier spends his time sniffing drugs and playing with himself.

 

On a day like the rest, the security light starts flashing and all three men are curious as to why. The old boy then develops a gross blister on his hand and strange things are afoot in the reactor room.

 

Outpost 11 is a very well made claustrophobic thriller like nothing I have ever seen or likely to.  I really had a job getting my head around it and was incredibly curious to see where the film would lead me to.  It’s a very odd film and that’s makes it more enjoyable to watch.  I would imagine a lot of people would think it to be a load of old rubbish.  I on the other hand, like things a bit different and its certainly that.