NETHERLANDS: Worst Case Scenario. 2006

Director: Richard Raaphorst
Stars: Zombies. Lots of them. Mostly Germans.
Release date: They need financing. So still in development.
Genre: Horror
Length: This can be 5 hours long as far as I'm concerned.

This is probably THE most anticipated film in horror circles at the moment. With good reason... Nazi zombies.
That's all that really needs to be said. Some people are whinging because it's already been done. So what! As much as I love Shock Waves there is room for an update. The other films like The Frozen Dead, Zombie Lake & the Jess Franco directed Euro pudding La Tumba de los Muertos Vivientes (Oasis of the Zombies) were all pretty bad. And it's not as though the genre has been overdone. One look at the promo real & if you are any kind of a zombie film buff, then you'll have to pick your jaw up from the ground. I cannot believe that no-one has come to their financial rescue. The promo reels are dripping with conviction. They look as though they could make an incredible film. Okay, we don't know about dramatic scenes & choice of actors, but let's hope that 100% of the package is as good as they can get. No point having awesome camerawork, impressive production design, brilliant make-up...and then stick some shit actors into it. Then it would just turn into a b-grade straight to DVD film. Get some talent in front of the screen with a tight script & then you have the makings of a terrific piece of cinema. They've had sufficient time to clean up the script so I guess it's just a waiting game now for the financing to come through.

Dutch director & locations. In English language. American actors. The Re-Animator's Bryan Yuzna attached himself to the project after Raaphorts created the title sequences to Beyond Re-Animator. Where's Tarantino or Eli Roth to the rescue...? Surely they'd want to see this film made.

Synopsis
The original screenplay of this horror movie centers on the common friction between neighboring countries. It’s a global phenomenon, and even in peaceful Western Europe you will find old grudges. If you dig deep enough. In the final of the World Championship soccer games Holland and Germany are going to war. A visiting American and his family try to get away from the nationwide frenzy, but traveling to a North Sea island they wind up in situations far, far worse

...This was the original premise...
A group of friends try to get away from the soccer madness surrounding a German-Dutch finale, but on a trip to a holiday island they run into extremely violent hooligans. They miss the last ferry out and are thankful when they can hitch a ride with the only other boat at the pier. But the island they arrive on is not at all what they expected. Let's just say the entertainment sucks and the locals give new meaning to the word 'stiff'. And that's just the beginning. Exploring the desolate landscape they find a strange bunker and, deep inside it, someone trapped, mutilated and barely alive. Freeing this man they unknowingly set the wheels in motion for mayhem on a much larger scale, a plan wrought during WWII and ever since waiting to happen. The group ends up in the middle as "I'll bash your head in with a steel pipe"-hooligans and an army of undead Nazis, the likes of which you've never seen before, go to war. And no, that is not the end of it.

• Website
• Promo reel 1 Downloadable QT file. 26MBs
• Promo reel 2 Downloadable QT file. 22MBs