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Inquisitor Thaken08 Jan 2010 11:42 a.m. PST

Surprised how few were actually made, as the Nazis (pre and post war) make great SF and fantasy villains:

Indiana Jones flicks
They Saved Hitler's Brain
Philadelphia Experiment films
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (Well, for a certain KIND of fantasy… evil grin)

Can't think of any others off my head. Can you?

PER TMP COMPLIANCE STANDARDS: How would you game such a film in miniature? Seriously for this topic, though. Blood On the Rhine (d20) was pretty good, and GASLIGHT had a pulp section with some good Nazi ideas, but I can't think of anything else.

Agent Smith08 Jan 2010 11:48 a.m. PST

Other films I can think of with Nazis in them Hellboy &
Bulletproof Monk

AS

Dropship Horizon08 Jan 2010 11:51 a.m. PST

Oh you haven't looked nearly hard enough at what's available in schlock B- Movie horror!

I'm going to use Crossfire believe it or not for my Nazi Zombie schlock gaming: picture

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Mark

Farstar08 Jan 2010 12:03 p.m. PST

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CmdrKiley08 Jan 2010 12:08 p.m. PST

In the back of the core rulebook for AE-WWII there is a list of books and movies that inspired the game. You will find SS Doomtrooper listed right there next to Saving Private Ryan. I don't have the book on me, otherwise I'd list them out.

A few more that come to mind:

The Outpost, Reign of the Gargoyles, The Keep, and Dead Snow.

Space Monkey08 Jan 2010 12:09 p.m. PST

Top of my head…
Shock Waves (Nazi Zombies)
Zombie Lake (same)
Oasis Of The Zombies (same)
The Frozen Dead (kinda same)
The Keep (Nazis vs. some guy in a rubber suit)
The Flesh Eaters (Nazi bio-warfare experiments gone wrong)
Flesh Feast (Hitler himself shows up in that one)
Boys From Brazil (Hitler clones)

I'm sure there are loads of other z-grade things I'm not remembering… and IIRC there is a suggestion that Dr. Scott in The Rocky Horror Picture Show might have one been a Nazi scientist… which would fit with that film's goal of cramming every horror cliche into one movie.

Landorl08 Jan 2010 12:51 p.m. PST

There was a movie that I remember watching, but can't remember the name…

US soldiers were on patrol when they encountered alien invaders.

I saw it in the late 80s or early 90s

Dr Mathias Fezian08 Jan 2010 12:58 p.m. PST

Nazis show up in "Venture Brothers" cartoon series as well as the "Hellsing" anime.

Rubber Suit Theatre08 Jan 2010 1:09 p.m. PST

Landorl – that was "Zone Troopers".

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Major Mike08 Jan 2010 1:37 p.m. PST

There is a book by Robert McCammon called "Night Boat" that has an old U-Boat showing up with Nazi Zombies on board as the crew.

Don't forget the movie, "Rocketeer" it has the rocket pack, autogyros and zeppelins.

Heck, you can take the movie "Eraser" with Arnold and change the bad guys into Nazi's trying to steal Tesla ray guns. You could have a nice shoot'em up at the docks. Nazi's with machine pistols and ray guns, the hero, some underworld types and longshoremen.

Jovian108 Jan 2010 2:21 p.m. PST

I've got a few tweaks for Flames of War for these types of films in larger scale and there is always Gear Krieg. If you haven't read the Atomic Robo World War II pulp comic, it is fairly well written, a fun read, and great art work. As for films, there are hordes of them as stated above, the Keep is another one with Nazi's and pulp stuff in it.

Martin Rapier08 Jan 2010 2:25 p.m. PST

How about the seminal 'Surf Nazis Must Die!'? There was also a truly horrible horror flick about a ship which trawled the ocean wrecking other ships then picking up and torturing to death their crews – crewed by the ghosts of dead Nazis.

I seem to recall re-animated Nazis turned up in the New Avengers, and of course for the ultimate Nazi conspiracy fantays sci fi guff there is the Illuminati Trilogy, never made it into film AFAIK, but it did make it into my SS Zombie AK47 Army, all ready to 'imminantise the eschaeton'.

How about Micheal Manns 'The Keep'?

The Daleks are of course Nazis, thinly disguised, a product of WW2 on the British psyche, esp The Daleks – Invasion Earth. All shiny metal, strident voices and extermination of inferior species.

thosmoss08 Jan 2010 2:32 p.m. PST

Has anyone mentioned "The Keep" yet?

La Long Carabine08 Jan 2010 3:56 p.m. PST

I think I'd look at Two Hour Wargames for some fun rules. They did "Dog Soldiers" and "Kelly's Heroes" right.

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Space Monkey08 Jan 2010 5:20 p.m. PST

Has anyone mentioned "The Keep" yet?
Yep, twice.

Martin Rapier,
The one with the boat load of Nazi ghosts is Death Ship… starring George Kennedy.

willthepiper08 Jan 2010 8:29 p.m. PST

There is a recent Norwegian-made nazi Zombie movie called Dead Snow.

Star Trek episode "Patterns of Force" – the nazi episode!

And of course, Star Wars.

Space Monkey08 Jan 2010 10:11 p.m. PST

There's also that great unmade Nazi Zombie movie 'Worst Case Scenario'
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willthepiper08 Jan 2010 11:43 p.m. PST

Oh, oh, oh! I just remembered The Blues Brothers!

"I hate Illinois Nazis"

Gaming idea – the chase scene at the end with Jake and Elwood being chased by Carrie Fisher, the Good Old Boys (they play BOTH kinds of music, country AND western), the Illinois nazis, the state police, the Chicago police and the National Guard. Great multiplayer scenario, would be good as a convention game

Feet up now09 Jan 2010 12:43 p.m. PST

bedknobs and broomsticks.but they put up more of a fight..

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Zephyr109 Jan 2010 4:19 p.m. PST

Hard Rock Zombies has some Nazis in it…. ;)

Landorl26 Jan 2010 9:26 a.m. PST

I guess if you really want to stretch it, then you could say Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I think it was sort of inter-war era.

chironex27 Jan 2010 7:40 p.m. PST

Reign of the Gargoyles?

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