History Film / FrankensteinsArmy

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Handheld 16mm cameras able to film with sync sound did not exist until the 1960s, long after this film is meant to take place, and the Bolex, which is the model actually seen in the film, certainly wasn't one of them. To say nothing of the fact that the film is in color (very unlikely for the time period) and in widescreen (virtually impossible). All of that being said, the camera being so advanced is actually a plot point; Frankenstein is astonished by how good it is and agrees to let Dimitri lives [[spoiler:(until he figures out how to use it himself)]] so he can document his work. It's possible that the Soviets are a lot more advanced in this timeline and [[SovietSuperscience manage to produce a prototype color and sound camera in the 40s]]. The only people who don't deserve their fates are the [[spoiler: nurse, the Hitlerjugend boy, and the elderly Nazi who's shown to be quite grandfatherly to the boy.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Every single character but one dies in the movie,]] and all but three of them deserve it. The Soviets are war criminals who raze a farmstead and later execute non-combatants. The Nazis are the Nazis. [[spoiler:Frankenstein is an insane sociopathic maniac who not only mutilates and lobotomizes people, but also reserves a particular [[FateWorseThanDeath fate]] for those who really piss him off, as seen with his [[AndIMustScream beheaded but still alive mother]]. Dimitri, our protagonist, is a manipulative and ruthless jerkass who forces his comrades to go through with the mission with their families as collateral, and once he comes face-to-face with the doctor, he expresses nothing but admiration at his work and offers to let him get away scotfree as a USSR scientist.]]

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Handheld 16mm cameras able to film with sync sound did not exist until the 1960s, long after this film is meant to take place, and the Bolex, which is the model actually seen in the film, certainly wasn't one of them. To say nothing of the fact that the film is in color (very unlikely for the time period) and in widescreen (virtually impossible). All of that being said, the camera being so advanced is actually a plot point; Frankenstein is astonished by how good it is and agrees to let Dimitri lives [[spoiler:(until he figures out how to use it himself)]] so he can document his work. It's possible that the Soviets are a lot more advanced in this timeline and [[SovietSuperscience manage to produce a prototype color and sound camera in the 40s]].

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Every single character but one dies in the movie,]] and all but three of them deserve it. The Soviets are war criminals who raze a farmstead and later execute non-combatants. The Nazis are the Nazis. [[spoiler:Frankenstein is an insane sociopathic maniac who not only mutilates and lobotomizes people, but also reserves a particular [[FateWorseThanDeath fate]] for those who really piss him off, as seen with his beheaded but still alive mother. Dimitri, our protagonist, is a manipulative and ruthless jerkass who forces his comrades to go through with the mission with their families as collateral, and once he comes face-to-face with the doctor, he expresses nothing but admiration at his work and offers to let him get away scotfree as a USSR scientist.]]

* RaceLift: There is no indication that Victor Frankenstein is Jewish in the original novel. However, since we're dealing with his grandson, it's possible that his wife in this timeline is a Jew, then his son marries another Jew, making his grandson Jewish by Nazi laws (anyone with 3 Jewish grandparents was considered a full Jew, while anyone with only two or fewer was only considered Mirschling and often faced hard labor instead of being sent to the camps).

* RaceLift: There is no indication that Victor Frankenstein is Jewish in the original novel. However, since we're dealing with his grandson, it's possible that his wife in this timeline is a Jew, then his son marries another Jew, making his grandson Jewish by Nazi laws (anyone 3/4 or more Jewish was considered a full Jew. Anyone only 1/2 Jewish or less was considered a Mischling and often condemned to hard labor instead of concentration camps).

* TooDumbToLive: Roughly the entire cast. They somehow manage to lose pretty much all of their numbers to slow and slumbering cyborgs that the totally unarmed Dimitri can sidestep most of the time with no problem. Also, when facing a particular cyborg whose facemask opens in intervals to expose its head, none of the squad members can rub two brain cells together to figure out that that's where they should shoot.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Implied for Vi''c''tor Frankenstein and possibly Elizabetta, as the main villain of the film is Victor's grandson.

* SparedInTheAdaptation: Implied for Vi''c''tor Frankenstein and possibly Elizabetta, as the main villain of the film is their grandson.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Handheld 16mm cameras able to film with sync sound did not exist until the 1960s, long after this film is meant to take place, and the Bolex, which is the model actually seen in the film, certainly wasn't one of them. To say nothing of the fact that the film is in color (very unlikely for the time period) and in widescreen (virtually impossible). All of that being said, this is justified by the fact that the camera being so advanced is a plot point; Frankenstein is astonished by how advanced the camera is and agrees to let Dimitri lives [[spoiler:(until he figures out how to use it himself)]] so he can document his work. It's possible that the Soviets are a lot more advanced in this timeline and [[SovietSuperscience manage to produce a prototype color and sound camera in the 40s]].

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Handheld 16mm cameras able to film with sync sound did not exist until the 1960s, long after this film is meant to take place, and the Bolex, which is the model actually seen in the film, certainly wasn't one of them. To say nothing of the fact that the film is in color (very unlikely for the time period) and in widescreen (virtually impossible). All of that being said, this is justified by the fact that the camera being so advanced is a plot point; Frankenstein is astonished by how advanced the camera is and agrees to let Dimitri lives [[spoiler:(until he figures out how to use it himself)]] so he can document his work.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Handheld 16mm cameras able to film with sync sound did not exist until the 1960s, long after this film is meant to take place, and the Bolex, which is the model actually seen in the film, certainly wasn't one of them. To say nothing of the fact that the film is in color (very unlikely for the time period) and in widescreen (virtually impossible). All of that being said, this is justified by the fact that the camera being so advanced is a plot point; Frankenstein is astonished by how anachronistically advanced the camera is and agrees to let Dimitri lives [[spoiler:(until he figures out how to use it himself)]] so he can document his work.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Handheld 16mm cameras able to film with sync sound did not exist until the 1960s, long after this film is meant to take place, and the Bolex, which is the model actually seen in the film, certainly wasn't one of them. To say nothing of the fact that the film is in color (very unlikely for the time period) and in widescreen (virtually impossible).

* RaceLift: There is no indication that Victor Frankenstein is Jewish in the original novel. However, since we're dealing with his grandson, it's possible that either his wife in this timeline is a Jew, or his son marries a Jew, making his grandson Jewish by Nazi laws.

** On the road to the village, a dead German soldier is found. He's got a mechanical hand and 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.

* WackySoundEffect: during one of the first gunfights with the monsters, it sounds like someone fires a single shot from a laser gun, specifically something out of Star Wars.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: InUniverse. At the Doctor's house, Dimitri sees a mockup of the MiniMecha the Nazis wanted pilots hardwired into (although, for some reason, it wears American colors-white and olive).

* ThisIsADrill: One zombie is-was-an SS shocktrooper with a power drill stuck in his nose, which gives him a bird-like face.

** Worse, it`s given in the credits as ''the Doctor's own mother.''

''Frankenstein's Army'' is a 2013 horror film, concerning a documentary made by a squadron of Soviet soldiers in the tail end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.