10 Scariest Horror Movies Set During World War II
And you thought the Nazi Zombies in Call of Duty were bad...
War movies are usually the home of bombastic action and hard-hitting drama - of brave heroics, tearful sacrifices, and catastrophic losses. And no war has been covered by the genre more - or is more well-known and soul-crushingly devastating - than World War II.
While the Second World War has had its fair share of movie limelight, there aren't many examples of horror movies set directly in the conflict.
Why add horror to a war that already saw millions suffer and the entire Earth brought to a standstill? Schindler's List, Come and See, and the first ten minutes of Saving Private Ryan don't need a supernatural or unearthly presence when the truth is more terrifying than any fiction.
Yet, even so, some directors have gone the extra mile and taken the "war is hell" slogan to its most literal sense.
In recent years particularly, moviemakers have stretched outside the saturated Nazi-zombie horror tropes with impressively unnerving results. In fact, the catalogue of World War II horror flicks is only growing larger, with releases like the Chloë Grace Moretz-led Shadow in the Cloud.
If these following films are anything to go by, horror fanatics will be begging for more World War II horror in the future.
10. Heavy Metal's "B-17"
Heavy Metal isn't exactly a World War II flick, which you probably would guess just by looking at the poster of a sword-wielding battle maiden flying on a bug-eyed bird over a futuristic city. However, this anthology film does have a short, sweet, and pretty spooky segment set during World War II.
After a B-17 bomber takes heavy fire during a dogfight, leading to the death of all but two of the plane's crew, things go from bad to worse when the crew are reanimated into flesh-eating zombies.
The choppy, almost rotoscoped animation style adds to the newly-returned Allied air fighters' creepiness, as the pilots desperately try and escape death at the clutches of their former comrades.
B-17, and the rest of Heavy Metal, don't shy away from the violent and gruesome imagery. Bullets turn the crew into ribbon before they monstrously morph into skeletal, hungry corpses. Even when one pilot escapes the downed plane, his nightmarish ride is far from over.
While this may be a quick pitstop into the historical for Heavy Metal, it's one that stays with its viewers well after the credits roll.