Overlord

Nazi zombies with a real budget and a strong first act, which is more than the premise promises.

American paratroopers drop behind lines the night before D-Day to destroy a radio tower in a French church. There is a laboratory underneath it.

The opening ten minutes, inside a transport plane under anti-aircraft fire, is one of the best-staged action sequences in recent horror: continuous, disorienting, and it ends with a man falling through the sky on fire.

Julius Avery plays the war film absolutely straight for half an hour before the horror arrives, which is why the horror lands.

The effects are practical and the serum sequences are properly grotesque.

It was rumoured for years to be a Cloverfield film and is not related to anything. It flopped and deserved better.