Olaf Ittenbach films rarely make much sense, the acting is often awful, and the dialogue nearly always sucks, but they usually provide enough realistic splatter to compensate for such drawbacks; so imagine how I feel having just watched the R1 release of Le6ion of the Dead and discovered that US distributors have cut 8 minutes of splatter. That's like trimming the nudity from a porn film!! For once, I wish I'd got the R2 release, which is apparently uncut...Oh well, all I can do is review the version I have seen, and once again, Olaf proves that he ain't anywhere near as proficient at writing and directing as he is at make-up effects: the story is a mess, the performances are uniformly awful, and the dialogue completely risible (a pathetic attempt to emulate the quickfire parlance of Quentin Tarantino).What we get is a weak horror comedy that spends its first half following several seemingly unconnected characters—two friends, William and Luke (Michael Carr and Russell Friedenberg), who are captured by serial killer Psycho Mike (Christopher Kriesa), a couple of undead psychos, beautiful waitress Geena (Kimberly Liebe), and a mysterious blond man (Matthias Hues)—before transforming midway into a shoddy From Dusk Till Dawn rip-off.But although it's hard to imagine that 8 minutes of effects could improve matters much, I'm willing to give Ittenbach the benefit of the doubt, and therefore refuse to rate this film until I have seen the uncut version that the director originally intended.Now excuse me while I take a quick gander at eBay (I don't want to pay too much for an extra 8 minutes).

An instant classic made by Germans. Only Europeans can make films of this standard. I would call this an European horror-comedy set in the North America. Most viewers might not understand the subtle humor beneath the horror surface. To my opinion this movie is not a copy of From Dusk till Dawn, to which it is often compared to. This movie reminds me more of Repo Man, only it is better. There is same kind of sublime humor which for most viewers is too difficult to understand. For example the similarity between mad scientist of Repo Man and Psycho Mike of Legion of the Dead is obvious. Maybe as a Finn I understand better German humor than an average American viewer. Truly one of the best and most entertaining films I have ever seen. I give it 10/10.

I lasted 9 minutes before I had to shut it off... The actors and actresses must have been kidnapped from a home for the mentally retarded and then forced at gunpoint to perform in this "film". I swear to you all, several of the actors may have been lobotomized before filming.I hope I never have to sit through a second more of this for the rest of my life. Do not rent this movie. To anyone who has seen it, my condolences. On the bright side, you've suffered through the worst this world had to offer. Congratulations for that much.

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