"Zombies from Outer Space" is a German German-language movie from 2012, so this one has its 5th anniversary this year. The writer and director is Martin Faltermeier and it may be his most known work. This has probably especially to do with the genre as zombie films/programs (Walking Dead) were even more famous back then as they are today. And the title already tells everybody that they mixed this frequent subject here with a touch extraterrestrial stuff. The movie runs for roughly 1.5 hours, so common runtime pretty much, but there is nothing memorable in here. The film is also not to be appreciated from the guilty pleasure perspective. It all looks so cheap and uninspired: the acting, the direction, the entire story and the complete production as a whole. I will admit though that I thought initially that the film may not be that much a failure as you would guess from seeing the rating here on IMDb. But sadly it is even worse. The contrast between harmony (early on) and violence/conflict was a solid idea but when you see these scenes you recognize quickly that talent was completely void when making this movie. It's just not working like pretty much all the rest. Major thumbs-down I have to give it and in my opinion this is a film that tells me to avoid Faltermeier's works in the future unless he considerably improves as soon as possible. Watch something else instead.

Okay, people will be divided when they watched this flick. First of all it's spoken in German and in particularly in Bavarian. So some my turn their face away when hearing this. On the other hand it's been subtitled in English and I must say that there are almost no mistakes in the subs because sometimes German flicks do have weird English subs. The other reason why people don't like it is because it looks like a flick from the fifties. And that means, a lot of blah blah before things go wrong.If you can stand both then you will actually like this flick. Myself not fund of fifties sci-fi and horror flicks did actually like it because when the aliens do walk amongst humans it do offer some gory moments. You don't want to watch it for the acting because it's a bit stiff and naturally when some actors are trying to talk English it becomes a bit funny. As I said earlier, the effects for such a independent were rather good. The aliens do look frightening and the opening sequence did offer some gory effects. Once the aliens walk it's all done by the actors itself but I can't say that I saw how they did some affects nd that's rather good (ofcourse I know but you can't tell). Indeed not for all horror buffs walking this earth, just for those who do like the fifties. Sure, some scene's are a bit too long (the bar for example) but it do have it's moments here and there.Gore 1/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

My infinite search for anything just remotely zombie-related brought me to this movie. And I have seen my share of questionable zombie movies, but "Zombies From Outer Space" goes straight to the top ten of bad zombie movies.Why? Well, everything about this movie was just horrible, aside from a somewhat interesting storyline. The story is taking place in post Second World War Bavaria, with American troops still found in the country. A strange phenomena takes place in a small rural village, and soon the village is overrun with flesh-eating reanimated creatures from outer space.The storyline was actually interesting enough to make the movie watchable, while everything else was just downright awful.The acting was wooden and hilarious, no one really put on anything even remotely memorable. And usually in war movies, you have Americans acting as Germans and speaking English with a bad German-imitated accent. In "Zombies From Outer Space", however, it is the other way around; here you have German actors trying to act like they are Americans and speak American English. But it was so awful, their accents were all over the place and didn't even remotely sound like any American accent I have ever heard. Worst of all was Siegfried Foster (playing Captain John Welles). I have never heard English that bad before. Especially his scene in the aeroplane (from 28:05 to 29:32). I had to go back after the movie finished and watch that scene again because it totally cracked me up.As for the dialogue in the movie, well, let's just say some sort of dialogue was there. But it was rather pitiful. And the actors and actresses didn't deliver it with much conviction.The aliens resembled something from a 1970's Sci-Fi movie; people running around with fake prosthetic heads. Heads that were made from papier-mâché, with non-functional parts. It was so rigid and fake. And how very convenient that all the aliens were wearing trousers (but nothing else)."Zombies From Outer Space" is so bad, campy and cheesy that it is actually worth watching, just for being able to say 'yeah, I watched that one and survived!'

Members of a small, rural Bavarian community and the staff of a nearby American airbase come under attack from flesh-hungry reanimated alien corpses, buried on Earth (under crop-circles) as part of an extraterrestrial plot to take over our planet.Zombies From Out Of Space is an ambitious indie homage to the schlocky sci-fi/horror movies of the 50s, but one that sadly bites off more than it can chew, ultimately failing to live up to its impressive B-movie style promotional art and packaging (it was the cool poster that first caught my attention and eventually convinced me to part with my cash for a signed DVD).Some lovely camera-work and impressive visual effects bode well, with a few particularly well executed shots of crop-circles and flying saucers belying the almost non-existent budget, but the film is let down by a clumsy script that features numerous redundant scenes and lousy performances by an enthusiastic but sadly not very talented cast (several of whom ill-advisedly attempt American accents).Director Martin Faltermeier throws in some fun gore during the zombie alien attack finalé, but to get there one has to endure some real dross, including a dreadfully dull romantic triangle between local girl Maria (Judith Gorgass), scientist Robert (Florian Kiml), and US captain John Welles (Siegfried Foster), lots of boring jibber jabber, and a completely pointless scene at a dance that turns into a brawl.