German soldiers(who sound awfully British)have to take refuge in a bunker when Allied American forces have surrounded them. Only an old timer, a bit off his rocker, and a young soldier are present inside the bunker to protect it until they join them. With hardly any supplies and little ammunition, they are easy sitting-ducks ready to be picked apart. Within the gut of the bunker is a creepy, dark, dank tunnel which might lead to a way out if the Americans haven't found out about it. But, something sinister lives within the tunnels where a large crop of human skeletons and bones are stored. The tunnel seems to be a sort-of burial ground for dead soldiers put there by the German Reich. But, as wise tales of the tunnel's creepy past begin to fester in the minds of those in the bunker, paranoia, mistrust and irrational behavior set in with disastrous results.
Ambitious film doesn't have the budget to quite succeed. It tries it's hand at making the soldiers human, but it's hard to care about their fates knowing who they are. You almost feel like cheering for whoever is causing these soldiers to turn inside out. The dark tunnel is a highlight providing some chills, but I felt it has lots of potential in it's "ghostly" story-line it fails to capitalize on. That could be because not enough money was present to provide us with ghastly looking ghouls, but it seems director Rob Green is aiming for what you don't see than showing us ghosts with decaying corpses or skeleton soldiers going for revenge. There is an interesting reason behind a certain violent deed these particular Nazi soldiers did that plagues on them which might provide the motivation of acts against them in the bunker. There's also a running theme about desertion as one soldier goes mad wishing to eliminate all those German soldiers who came to the bunker after departing war when it was getting harsh.
Ambitious film doesn't have the budget to quite succeed. It tries it's hand at making the soldiers human, but it's hard to care about their fates knowing who they are. You almost feel like cheering for whoever is causing these soldiers to turn inside out. The dark tunnel is a highlight providing some chills, but I felt it has lots of potential in it's "ghostly" story-line it fails to capitalize on. That could be because not enough money was present to provide us with ghastly looking ghouls, but it seems director Rob Green is aiming for what you don't see than showing us ghosts with decaying corpses or skeleton soldiers going for revenge. There is an interesting reason behind a certain violent deed these particular Nazi soldiers did that plagues on them which might provide the motivation of acts against them in the bunker. There's also a running theme about desertion as one soldier goes mad wishing to eliminate all those German soldiers who came to the bunker after departing war when it was getting harsh.