Director Richard Raaphorst is no stranger to the business having worked as a conceptual artist for films like Dagon and Beyond Re-animator, so the concepts for the monster experiments in this film are well realized. The movie works off the found footage angle, as it's being shot on film that looks grainy but pretty good to be taken in the 1940's, as a Russian Platoon stumbles over the workshop belonging one of the many heir's to the Frankenstein legacy.
For me the pacing works better than most, especially the other Frankenstein found footage film the Frankenstein Syndrome which played out like a poor man's Troll Hunter. This movie is like a walk through a haunted house, with creatures popping out from claustrophobic corridors to mangle their victims , which it is a horror movie so we know is going to be the soldiers whose eyes we are seeing this from.
The quality of the gore effects could be better , it comes across as 70's Grindhouse, not as intentional campy in most parts as Hobo with a Shotgun or Dear God No, when a helmets is pulled off of a head and takes the brain with it, the effect is close to comedic.
Where this movie works is in the monsters, though some could have used a little more love from the make up department, but when they are almost more robotic in nature, they succeed in looking like Nazi was machines, one even has a propeller for a head which as you can imagine make for good chopping, but highly combustible.
The acting despite the variance in accents , is pretty convincing considering the budget being worked with though one of the main characters reminds me of Buster from Arrested Development and I can always appreciate an original take on the Frankenstein myth, though if you are hoping for a Boris Karloff clone in a nazi uniform, guess again ,nor does this go for the same feel as say Inglorious Bastards or Dead Snow, in capturing the time period. I was entertained despite the budget constraints of gore and hope some one makes action figures of those monsters.
