Outpost IIThere has always been a burning need for Nazi horror films. It is the fundamental nature of something so historically significant that always gets labelled as one of the greatest horrors of the modern age. It makes for good horror films. Recently, the movie Outpost (our review of it is here) took an insight into Nazi zombies/ghosts with its haunting sets and story of super-soldiers gone awry. It was one of the most interesting horror films of the year if you’re a history buff because it was so imbued with history in many ways. That film is now set to get a sequel titled Outpost II: Black Sun. The poster (above) already tickles the imagination as to what themes might emerge again, and what new angles it will look at. At the same time, news has broken that the sales rights have already been purchased.Screen Daily announced today that the sales rights to Outpost II have been bought by ContentFilm, at least for Cannes. Other details have emerged from various sites such as E-Splatter as to what the new film will be about and who so far has signed up. The most important part is that original director Steve Barker will be back in the directors chair, and will be writing the script along with co-writer Rae Brunton who also wrote the first one. There is no news as to the cast, and the plot so far remains somewhat vague. The fact that groups are calling it a sequel, whilst some places say that the film will take place in early 1945 at the very closing stages of the war does confuse. This could be a prequel that follows the scientists who tried to create an army of super-soldiers for Hitler. Alternatively it might well pick up where the last film left off (my own theory) and work more backstory in. Nothing is impossible. The one thing we can hope for is that the historicity of the first one is not lost in the second one, and that the film continues to carve out its own unique style to go along with the immaculate substance. At the end of the day, the film will revolve around Nazis, there could be no better villains to center a story on.

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