Outpost is a
2008 British
horror
film.
Production
The film was produced by Scottish couple Arabella Croft and Kieran
Parker and their production company
Black Camel Pictures.
They mortgaged their Glasgow
home in
order to raise £200,000 to finance production. The script is
by Rae Brunton, based on Parker's original concept, which he
described as "
Platoon meets
The Sixth
Sense".
Although
set in Eastern Europe, filming was done in a munitions factory in
Dalbeattie
, in a forest near Castle Douglas
, and in the Glasgow Film City studio complex in the
Govan
area of Glasgow. Filming began in January
2007.
Sony Pictures bought distribution
rights to the film for £1.2 million. Sony released it directly to
DVD in the USA on March 11 2008. Following favourable reviews, the
film will be exhibited theatrically across Europe. The film's
European premiere will be a gala showing as part of the
Dumfries Film Festival
on the 3rd of May, followed by limited distribution to 130 UK cinemas.
The producers are planning a sequel:
Outpost II: Black
Sun. The sequel has been granted £25,000 of funding from
Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Plot
In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, mysterious businessman
Hunt (
Julian Wadham) hires mercenary
and former
Royal Marine D.C. (
Ray Stevenson) to assemble a crack
team of ex-soldiers (
Richard Brake,
Paul Blair,
Enoch Frost,
Julian
Rivett, and
Michael Smiley) to
protect him on a dangerous journey into no-man's land. Their
mission is to scope out an old military bunker in
Eastern Europe. It should be easy – 48 hours
at the most. Lots of cash for little risk. Or so he says...
Once at
the outpost, the men make a horrific discovery that turns their
mission on its head – the scene of a bloody and gruesome series of
experiments, carried out by the SS
in Reality shifting and Reanimation during World War
II to create invincible soldiers. (
See Die Glocke) Amidst the carnage, they find a
survivor (
Johnny Meres).
At night suddenly the clearing around the bunker is lit up, and
silhouettes of people are seen amongst the light. Soon after a
member of their team called Tak goes missing and he is gruesomely
killed by an unseen foe. Later the same night another member of the
team is killed by two Nazis. The next morning his and Tak's dead
bodies are found linked together by the head, and Tak's containing
a spent round in his skull. D.C. receives answers regarding the
assignment from Hunt, which was that an un-named corporation wanted
Hunt to find and recover a large generator-like device which was
responsible for the SS's reality-shifting experiments. It is
revealed that the survivor the mercenaries recovered was actually a
surviving SS
brigadier general,
with Prior killing the officer, unaware that he has rejoined the
ranks of the undead army. The mercenaries and Hunt attempt to
evacuate the outpost only to be killed by the undead German
army.
A second corporate team arrives 72 hours later to carry out the
same assignment, only to "find a breather" among the piles of naked
corpses and face the illuminated soldiers surrounding the bunker,
presumably leaving them to be met with a similar fate to that of
the first team shortly before the credits roll.
Cast
Sequel
Teaser poster for
Outpost 2: Black
Sun
A sequel, entitled
Outpost II: Black Sun, is currently in
the works. The film will be written by
Steve Barker and Rae Brunton while Barker will
return as director.
References
- "Govan zombies taste film success", BBC News
website, 16 April 2008
- Document : Film Premiere Comes to Dumfries, Dumfries
and Galloway council website, 16th April 2008
- "May programme", Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
website
- "ContentFilm picks up horror sequel Outpost
II", ScreenDaily website, 19 May 2009
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