Beek at War

James Van Der Beek, hot of his starring role in last year’s underrated STD THE PLAGUE has decided to bust out his horror chops again, this time with STONE’S WAR (formerly titled WAR OF THE DEAD). Some of you may be laughing, as let’s face it, Dawson here is pretty damn laughable, but I will give him this- he does a better job most the time than he’s given credit for, and I’m actually looking forward to checking this flick out!

According to Production Weekly, WAR is about Captain Martin Stone (Van Der Beek) is leading a finely-trained, elite platoon of American and Finnish soldiers as they attack an enemy bunker. Underestimating their enemy’s strength, they are quickly beaten back into the forest. As they try to regroup, they are suddenly attacked by the same soldiers they had just killed a few minutes earlier. Forced to flee deeper into Russian territory, they discover one of war’s most terrifying secrets and realize they have woken up a far more deadlier enemy.

Zombies? Forest? Platoon? Van Der Beek? Sounds like a flippin’ blast to me! Neil Marshall once described his epic tale DOG SOLDIERS as ‘a war movie, with werewolves in it’, and the same could be described here, though it’d be more like ‘a war movie, with zombies in it’. Though I think they need to work on a better title, the premise sounds pretty f*ckin’ cool, and really… I can’t wait to check this puppy out!

Filming is set to begin April 2nd in Lithuania, but it’s not clear on whether or not this will be a straight to DVD flick, or if it’ll see the light of day in theaters. My guess it’ll be STD, and lately, that’s not a bad thing! I actually enjoyed the hell out of THE PLAGUE, let’s hope Van Der Beek keeps it up and doesn’t let us down with this one!