Luke and William travel through the California desert when they're kidnapped by a psycho. This is the first part. Later, with the help of a friend they manage to escape and gets caught up in a bar that suddenly gets attacked by the legion of the dead. That's the second part, and this part is exactly like From Dusk Till Dawn. Well not exactly, this one's complete trash.
Legion of the Dead is a movie from German crap-meister Olaf Ittenbach, creator of The Burning Moon and Premutos among others. And even if Premutos is kinda crappy, it still had a lot more going for it than this flick has.
This is actually a From Dusk Till Dawn ripoff, you can't escape from the fact that it is, and it's truly noticable when you see it which is not a good thing to begin with. If he's was gonna try and rip it off, then try and do it somewhat properly, not like this as this is just plain horrible.
But let's get away from the fact that it's a ripoff. So what else does this movie have to offer, gore? Yeah some, but most of the time it just looks way too cheap and ruins the experience. Again, watch Premutos instead, it's bad but at least you'll get some proper gore. Maybe not proper but still a hell of a lot better than what you get here.
Just like From Dusk Till Dawn this movie is kinda divided into two different parts. Yeah it's a ripoff all the way.
I can't believe that Ittenbach made this movie, not that I'm a fan of his but it just seems so stupid to completely rip a movie off that most people who would watch Legion of the Dead most likely have seen. People take other people's ideas all the time, but cases like this are just too much.
The performances from the actors are so wooden that it actually hurts to look sometimes. And most of the time when watching this, it feels like the movie was just thrown together without any thought behind it whatsoever.
So what do we actually get here? Good dialogue? No. Decent acting? No. Gore? Yeah, shitty gore not worth the time. Nudity? No. Good directing? No. Nice photography? No. A good story? Hahaha. Plot holes? Yes. Stay away, you've been warned.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Le6ion of the Dead
MOVIE YEAR: 2001
DIRECTOR: Olaf Ittenbach
WRITING CREDITS: Olaf Ittenbach
GENRE: Comedy, Horror
CAST: Michael Carr, Russell Friedenberg, Kimberly Liebe
COUNTRY: Germany
RUNTIME: 89 min
RATING: 1/10
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