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* WouldHurtAChild: The "Zompod" cyborg used to be a boy named Fritz.

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* WolverinePublicity: The mace face, nurse, and drill nose zombies feature prominently on the cover, despite only appearing once or twice (and mace is a NonActionGuy).
* WouldHurtAChild: The "Zompod" "Zompod" cyborg used to be a boy named Fritz.

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* ArtificialZombie: The {{Frankensteins Monster}}s in the village are actually horrific cyborgs. The trope is lampshaded and given a huge TakeThat, as "Stitching people together with knives for hands [is] something only the Nazis could think of".

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* ArtificialZombie: The {{Frankensteins Monster}}s in the village are actually horrific cyborgs. The trope is lampshaded and given a huge TakeThat, as "Stitching as, according to Seregei: "Only the Nazis would think of this. Sewing dead people together with and giving them knives for hands [is] something only the Nazis could think of".hands".


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* BaitAndSwitch: Marching is heard and the Nazi flag is seen. The flag is soon trampled into a mudhole.
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* StealthHiBye: The Tramp [[spoiler: leads the squad into a trap and vanishes without a trace]]. It's hard to blame him though, [[{{Fingore}} considering Vassili cut his finger off.]]
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* ColdSniper: Despite catching snowflakes with his tongue during the establishing shots.

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* ColdSniper: Despite Alexei, despite catching snowflakes with his tongue during the establishing shots.

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* MissingMomentOfAwesome: There's talk of taking a sniper blind early in the film. We don't get to see them destroy it.


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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: There's talk of taking a sniper blind early in the film. We don't get to see them destroy it..
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* BodyHorror: Oh yes. Agonizing cybernetics on several of the monsters, and one of the soldiers is eviscerated by the saw-hand lady.

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* BodyHorror: Oh yes. Agonizing cybernetics on several of the monsters, and one of the soldiers Novikov is eviscerated by the saw-hand lady.
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** At one point, Dimitri falls into an open grave and knocks a braring out of alighnment. The audio is distorted and a rapid squeaking dominates the soundtrack.

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** At one point, Dimitri falls into an open grave and knocks a braring bearing out of alighnment. The audio is distorted and a rapid squeaking dominates the soundtrack.
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** At one point, Dimitri falls into an open grave and knocks a braring out of alighnment. The audio is distorted and a rapid squeaking dominates the soundtrack.
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** [[GraveRobbing The village graveyard is dug up with the bodies missing from the coffins.]]
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* CameraAbuse: Splattered with mud, gore, and breaks a lense.


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* MissingMomentOfAwesome: There's talk of taking a sniper blind early in the film. We don't get to see them destroy it.
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** On the road to the village, a dead German soldier is found. He's got Freddy Kreuger claws for hands, and despite being dead for long enough for leaf mould to accumulate on his uniform, still twitches violently when manhandled too much.

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** On the road to the village, a dead German soldier is found. He's got Freddy Kreuger claws for hands, a mechanical hand and despite a bolt stuck in his chin. Despite being dead for long enough for leaf mould to accumulate on his uniform, he still twitches violently and screams when manhandled too much.
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* BicepPolishingGesture: Vassili gives a ''Bras D'onneur'' to Dimitri early on in the film.

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* BicepPolishingGesture: BicepPolishingGesture / FlippingTheBird: Vassili gives a ''Bras D'onneur'' to Dimitri early on in the film.

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* FrankensteinsMonster A bunch of them, actually; see "artificial zombie" above.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The squad finds a strange skeleton tangled in an electric fence. The skeleton has several metal gubbins on it.

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* FrankensteinsMonster FrankensteinsMonster: A bunch of them, actually; see "artificial zombie" above.
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* SociopathicSoldier: Vasjili. He cuts off an old man's fingers during an interrogation, beats people up for no good reason, and is more or less the movie's HateSink until the monsters show up.

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* SociopathicSoldier: Vasjili.Vassili. He cuts off an old man's fingers during an interrogation, beats people up for no good reason, and is more or less the movie's HateSink until the monsters show up.

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* BicepPolishingGesture: Vassili gives a ''Bras D'onneur'' to Dimitri early on in the film.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: On the road to the village, a dead German soldier is found. He's got Freddy Kreuger claws for hands, and despite being dead for long enough for leaf mould to accumulate on his uniform, still twitches violently when manhandled too much.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: On The squad finds a strange skeleton tangled in an electric fence. The skeleton has several metal gubbins on it.
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* KarmicDeath: Vasjili, the sociopathic HateSink, ends up as spare parts for the Doctor's experiments.
* PetTheDog: During the "Messing around with the camera" scene, one of the Russians gives an elderly German evacuee an entire bar of chocolate. She's absolutely ecstatic.

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* KarmicDeath: Vasjili, Vassili, the sociopathic HateSink, ends up as spare parts for the Doctor's experiments.
* NailEm: Ivan gets his helmet bolted to his skull.
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PetTheDog: During the "Messing around with the camera" scene, one of the Russians gives Vassili and Ivan give an elderly German evacuee an entire bar of chocolate. She's absolutely ecstatic.
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* NightmareFace: None of the cyborgs have pretty faces. Some might mitigate this by having a helmet or otherwise artificial in it's entirety head.

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* NightmareFace: None of the cyborgs have pretty faces. Some might mitigate this by having a helmet or otherwise artificial in it's entirety head.

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* SpinToDeflectStuff: The airplane zombie deflects every bullet fired at it with its DeadlyRotaryFan. It's defeated by cutting it's fuel line, in fact.



* TheMole: [[spoiler: Our main character and cameraman Dimitri is actually a spy for the Politiburo]].

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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Our main character and cameraman Dimitri is actually a a(n unwilling) spy for the Politiburo]].

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* DeadlyRotaryFan: The "propellerhead" zombie.

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* DeadlyRotaryFan: The "propellerhead" zombie.zombie's schtick.


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* GunsInChurch: The first fight with the monsters is in the convent.
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* DeadlyRotaryFan: The "propellerhead" zombie.


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* NightmareFace: None of the cyborgs have pretty faces. Some might mitigate this by having a helmet or otherwise artificial in it's entirety head.

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* BackwardsR: The opening credits are done in this way.



* KarmicDeath: Vasjili ends up as spare parts for the Doctor's experiments.

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* KarmicDeath: Vasjili Vasjili, the sociopathic HateSink, ends up as spare parts for the Doctor's experiments.



* SpoilerTitle: The title basically gives away that the Doctor [[spoiler: Dimitri is forced into capturing]] is Frankenstein

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* SpoilerTitle: The title basically gives away that the Doctor [[spoiler: Dimitri is forced into capturing]] is FrankensteinFrankenstein.
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* FoundFootage: Awful camera work and the camera man is the main character.

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* ArtificialZombie: The {{Frankensteins Monster}}s in the village are actually horrific cyborgs.

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* ArtificialZombie: The {{Frankensteins Monster}}s in the village are actually horrific cyborgs. The trope is lampshaded and given a huge TakeThat, as "Stitching people together with knives for hands [is] something only the Nazis could think of".
* AllThereInTheManual: The official names of Frankenstein's zombie cyborg minions are given in the credits.



* FrankensteinsMonster A bunch of them, actually; see "artificial zombie" above.



* SerratedBladeOfPain: Several zombies have saws for hands.



* ThisIsADrill: One zombie is an SS shocktrooper with a power drill stuck in his nose.

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* ThisIsADrill: One zombie is an is-was-an SS shocktrooper with a power drill stuck in his nose.nose, which gives him a bird-like face.
* WouldHurtAChild: The "Zompod" cyborg used to be a boy named Fritz.
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* BerserkButton: Dr. Frankenstein becomes very upset when Dimitri asks him how his "automatons" receive orders. They're neither robots [[MoreThanMindControl nor]] [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil slaves.]] "They even think!" The ending calls this into question, since they go berserk (not that it's a long trip) once [[spoiler: the doctor dies, as he said they would because they only obey him]].


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* HumanResources: The body parts that aren't made into cyborgs are made into soup to feed them with.
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* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler: Dimitri is forced to try to capture the Doctor, or his mother will be killed. Likewise, he has the names of all the squad members families in case they don't cooperate]].


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* SpoilerTitle: The title basically gives away that the Doctor [[spoiler: Dimitri is forced into capturing]] is Frankenstein

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Dimitri is a Jewish-Russian soldier, sent into German territory to document the exploits of a reconnaissance battalion. After screwing around with the camera for a little bit, the squad gets a distress call from "Tiger-Bear 303", another recon unit investigating a mining village. The town is mysteriously empty; the only signs of inhabitation a big pile of dead nuns.

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Dimitri is a Jewish-Russian soldier, sent into German territory to document the exploits of a reconnaissance battalion. After screwing around with the camera for a little bit, the squad gets a distress call from "Tiger-Bear 303", another recon unit investigating a mining village. The town is mysteriously empty; the only signs of inhabitation a big pile of dead nuns. As the group takes shelter in the church, they are attacked by a horde of... things, half man, half machine...


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* FoundFootage: Awful camera work and the camera man is the main character.

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* CannibalLarder: The basement of the church and a chilled room in the school.



* Foreshadowing: On the road to the village, a dead German soldier is found. He's got Freddy Kreuger claws for hands, and despite being dead for long enough for leaf mould to accumulate on his uniform, still twitches violently when manhandled too much.

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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: On the road to the village, a dead German soldier is found. He's got Freddy Kreuger claws for hands, and despite being dead for long enough for leaf mould to accumulate on his uniform, still twitches violently when manhandled too much.much.
* GenerationXerox: This Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the grandson of [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} the famous one from Switzerland.]]
* IronicEcho: Dimitri promises a "Hero of the Soviet Union" medal to Sascha if he helps him capture the Doctor. At the very end, Sascha promises Dimitri the same for distracting the monsters while he escapes with [[spoiler: the Doctor's severed head]].



* SociopathicSoldier: Vasjili. He cuts off an old man's fingers during an interrogation, beats people up for no good reason, and is more or less the movie's HateSink until the monsters show up.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Happens to everyone near the end of the movie, except the doctor and [[spoiler: Sascha]].



* SociopathicSoldier: Vasjili is one, and it seems that it's because he's not in charge. He cuts off an old man's fingers during an interrogation, beats the living daylights out of one of the villagers for no good reason, and is more or less the movie's HateSink until the monsters show up.

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* BodyHorror: Oh yes.

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* BodyHorror: Oh yes. Agonizing cybernetics on several of the monsters, and one of the soldiers is eviscerated by the saw-hand lady.



* TheDogBitesBack: Doctor Frankenstein was sent to a concentration camp near the village. However, when the Nazis learned of his experiments, they forced him to work with human subjects instead of the animals he had been using previously. He uses the Nazi soldiers and their families his experiments.



* SubtitlesAreSupurfluous: The Google Play version has absolutely awful subtitles; an entire conversation is missed and saws are said to be "drilling".

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* SubtitlesAreSupurfluous: SubtitlesAreSuperfluous: The Google Play version has absolutely awful subtitles; an subtitles. An entire conversation is missed and [[YouKeepUsingThatWord saws are said to be "drilling".]]



* ThisIsADrill: One zombie is an SS shocktrooper with a power drill stuck in his nose.
* TheDogBitesBack: Doctor Frankenstein was sent to a concentration camp near the village. However, when the Nazis learned of his experiments, they forced him to work with human subjects instead of the animals he had been using previously. He uses the Nazi soldiers and their families his experiments.

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* ThisIsADrill: One zombie is an SS shocktrooper with a power drill stuck in his nose.
* TheDogBitesBack: Doctor Frankenstein was sent to a concentration camp near the village. However, when the Nazis learned of his experiments, they forced him to work with human subjects instead of the animals he had been using previously. He uses the Nazi soldiers and their families his experiments.
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Dimitri is a Jewish-Russian soldier, sent into German territory to document the exploits of a reconnaissance battalion. After screwing around with the camera for a little bit, the squad gets a distress call from "Tiger-Bear 303", another recon unit investigating a mining village...

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Dimitri is a Jewish-Russian soldier, sent into German territory to document the exploits of a reconnaissance battalion. After screwing around with the camera for a little bit, the squad gets a distress call from "Tiger-Bear 303", another recon unit investigating a mining village...village. The town is mysteriously empty; the only signs of inhabitation a big pile of dead nuns.



* BladeBelowTheShoulder: All the monsters have meathooks, saws, or Jaws-of-Life for hands.



* Foreshadowing: On the road to the village, a dead German soldier is found. He's got Freddy Kreuger claws for hands, and despite being dead for long enough for leaf mould to accumulate on his uniform, still twitches violently when manhandled too much.
* KarmicDeath: Vasjili ends up as spare parts for the Doctor's experiments.



* SociopathicSoldier: Vasjili is one, and it seems that it's because he's not in charge. He cuts off an old man's fingers during an interrogation, beats the living daylights out of one of the villagers for no good reason, and is more or less the movie's HateSink until the monsters show up.

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* SubtitlesAreSupurfluous: The Google Play version has absolutely awful subtitles; an entire conversation is missed and saws are said to be "drilling".
* SociopathicSoldier: Vasjili is one, and it seems that it's because he's not in charge. He cuts off an old man's fingers during an interrogation, beats the living daylights out of one of the villagers for no good reason, and is more or less the movie's HateSink until the monsters show up.up.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Our main character and cameraman Dimitri is actually a spy for the Politiburo]].
* NakedOnArrival: The first cyborg the Squad discovers is a naked woman with a saw arm.
* ThisIsADrill: One zombie is an SS shocktrooper with a power drill stuck in his nose.
* TheDogBitesBack: Doctor Frankenstein was sent to a concentration camp near the village. However, when the Nazis learned of his experiments, they forced him to work with human subjects instead of the animals he had been using previously. He uses the Nazi soldiers and their families his experiments.
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* ArtificialZombie: The FrankensteinsMonsters in the village are actually horrific cyborgs.

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* ArtificialZombie: The FrankensteinsMonsters {{Frankensteins Monster}}s in the village are actually horrific cyborgs.



* SociopathicSoldiers: Vasjili is one, and it seems that it's because he's not in charge. He cuts off an old man's fingers during an interrogation, beats the living daylights out of one of the villagers for no good reason, and is more or less the movie's HateSink until the monsters show up.

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* SociopathicSoldiers: SociopathicSoldier: Vasjili is one, and it seems that it's because he's not in charge. He cuts off an old man's fingers during an interrogation, beats the living daylights out of one of the villagers for no good reason, and is more or less the movie's HateSink until the monsters show up.
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Frankenstein's Army is a 2013 Horror film, concerning a documentary made by a squadron of Soviet soldiers in the tail end of World War 2.

Dimitri is a Jewish-Russian soldier, sent into German territory to document the exploits of a reconnaissance battalion. After screwing around with the camera for a little bit, the squad gets a distress call from "Tiger-Bear 303", another recon unit investigating a mining village...
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'''This film contains examples of:'''
* ArtificialZombie: The FrankensteinsMonsters in the village are actually horrific cyborgs.
* BodyHorror: Oh yes.
* ColdSniper: Despite catching snowflakes with his tongue during the establishing shots.
* PetTheDog: During the "Messing around with the camera" scene, one of the Russians gives an elderly German evacuee an entire bar of chocolate. She's absolutely ecstatic.
* SociopathicSoldiers: Vasjili is one, and it seems that it's because he's not in charge. He cuts off an old man's fingers during an interrogation, beats the living daylights out of one of the villagers for no good reason, and is more or less the movie's HateSink until the monsters show up.

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