Legion of the Dead

2001
3.2| 1h29m| R| en| More Info
Released: 25 October 2001 Released
Producted By: X-Vision Filmproduction GmbH & Co. KG
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Two guys, handsome William and his side kick Luke have just started their trip through the beautiful California desert when they're kidnapped by the notorious Psycho Mike, The Kern River Killer. Securing their escape through hilarious means and the aid of an old friend they soon stumble into a small desert town where unbeknownst to them a mysterious tall Blond Man and his sadistic henchmen are killing people to create a Legion of the dead. Here's where it gets tricky. William falls in love with Geena, the beautiful waitress at the local restaurant and Luke spins out of control hormonally. The restaurant is suddenly attacked by the LEGION and the tall Blond Man gives an ultimatum to hand over Geena within two hours or he will personally come in to get her. What is the mysterious secret that Geena and the Blond Man share? The clock ticks as the ultimatum draws near. The fight against evil has just begun...

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Olaf Ittenbach

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X-Vision Filmproduction GmbH & Co. KG

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Legion of the Dead Audience Reviews

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
UnowPriceless hyped garbage
Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
DigitalRevenantX7 Two stoners are on their way to a desert town to visit their cousin when they are picked up by a man offering them a lift in his car. But it turns out that the man is a psychotic killer. Their cousin tries to rescue them. Meanwhile a pair of astonishingly inept undead hit men are 'recruiting' people to become undead soldiers for their master Togaio, an evil immortal. Togaio is also after Geena, a female immortal who is the last member of her race, now working as a waitress in a bar. After being rescued from the psycho, the stoners & their cousin arrive at the bar at the same time as Togaio & his army. When their presence triggers one hell of an ugly barroom brawl, the stoners attempt to save Geena from Togaio. Legion of the Dead (or to use the on screen title, which is simply Legion) is perhaps one of the worst films I have ever seen. It really staggers belief that an extremely pathetic piece of trash like this would b e made in this day & age. The film is the directorial debut of visual effects artist Olaf Ittenbach (it would be ironically fitting that Ittenbach would later be doing effects work for fellow German filmmaker Uwe Boll on his film BloodRayne).You get a sinking feeling when the film starts with two stoners clearly stoned out of their mind having a ridiculous discussion about genitals, to the point that you wonder if Ittenbach is pulling your leg & making some kind of satire. Alas, that is not the case – the film tries to copy the success of Tarantino's early works (in particular Pulp Fiction), with two astoundingly inept & idiotic undead hit men killing people & having a running argument over the colour of their suits (one prefers the grey suits they are wearing but the other thinks they are ugly so makes the decision to get yellow suits). This madness grates on for what seems to be forever but is in fact one scene intercut with the plight of the two almost as stupid stoners being abducted & held prisoner by a crazed psychopath. Then we see the life of Geena, the friendly female immortal who has a sunny disposition & who cannot be killed except by a virus created by her opposite member.Having seen the film numerous times (in an effort to discern the almost totally insane plot), I can say with certainty that Olaf Ittenbach probably wrote a horror comedy but somehow lost control & the film was badly edited together to point that the story was jumbled up like a plate of spaghetti. Case in point the barroom brawl, which looks quite spectacular (particularly with the cool techno song playing in the background) but is the very definition of "mindless violence", mainly due to being incoherently edited & with several elements being left unexplained. The film ends on an equally incoherent ending that suggests some sort of time warp taking place.The acting is mostly bad. Matthias Hues is his usual self, making his role of Togaio the evil immortal quite good, although the only actors who comes close to matching him in the acting department are Kimberly Liebe as the good immortal & a madly glass-munching Christopher Kriesa who gives his role of the psychopathic killer some enthusiasm.
DocEmmettBrown This sorry rip-off of From Dusk Till Dawn uses gore in place of wit, a sharp script, good acting, keen editing, decent ADR, or any kind of suspense whatsoever.The film concerns itself with several limp story lines involving road trips and murders that all culminates in a bar full of vampires (and Germans!!). Sound familiar?Where Dusk Till Dawn deftly blended horror, action and an underlying dark humour. Legion veers wildly between over the top gore and slapstick humour. The films main pairings (the vampire brothers and the two friends) adopt the same straight guy and stooge blueprint and rinse it to the point of irritation. By the 10th time the bespectacled brother got in an accident I wanted to throw my DVD out the window.Then there's the editing. It appears that to cut running time the director has merely hacked parts out of scenes with an axe. The first time the hitchhiker killer has a fit, one of the brothers remarks "He's freaking out again". Again?! When was the first time? The film is riddled with moments like this, giving the feeling that we are watching an abridged version.The only saving grace is the beautiful Kimberly Liebe who is also one of the better actors in the film (not that this is saying an awful lot)....and don't even get me started on the ending.
KHayes666 This movie pizzed me off. It shows flashes of being a great movie then fizzles out, then shows another flash then fizzles out again. It also seemed like a two part movie with the first part being the 2 idiots getting kidnapped by the rabid madman while 2 morons kill people for The Blonde Man (played by karate master Matthies Hues) I mean when you have a hot female lead character, chances are the movie will turn out OK but not this one.The second half of the movie was basically a From Dusk Till Dawn rip-off with the worst ending possible. After all the main character's friends are dead...instead of going into one on one combat with The Blonde Man (and probably getting killed giving his fighting background) he recites some mumbo jumbo and presto....turns out it was all a dream Talk about a waste of a promising movie. With a lot of touching up on the script this might have been a good movie, as it turned out it had more holes than swiss cheese 5 out of 10
ajrayman I saw this film against my will - a friend had been bugging me for the past two years every time we went to Blockbuster to rent it. It is absolutely hilarious! The pee-pee/moo-moo dialectic presented by the stoner is very philosophical. Tagayo, the Fabio-esque Lucifer character raises his hands almost every time he talks. The metallic blue, X-men like image of the "legion" outside the bar makes for a good desktop wallpaper. If you want a good laugh, watch it. But, be cautioned, there is NO plot. Also, watch the "making of" portion of the DVD. A couple stoner Germans talk about how they just said "okay, lets make ze movie."