"Even in the development stage and leading to the shooting, we never called them zombies," says Avery. (It's also not a part of the Cloverfield universe as originally rumored.) The monster-like humans shown in the trailer are not conventional zombies that have risen from their graves to feast on brains these are humans who have been injected with a Nazi-scientist-concocted serum that turns them into ruthless killing machines. One thing that becomes completely clear as you watch Overlord: This is not a zombie movie. In that spirit, we asked him to break down some of Overlord's wildest moments, creepiest sights, and lingering questions.
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On the phone from California the day of the film's release, the chatty Australian said he wanted to make a movie best dissected over a giant plate of nachos afterwards. Instead, Avery keeps his foot on the gas. From its gripping opening sequence, which finds nervous recruit Private Ed Boyce (Jovan Adepo) getting ready to leap from a plane before getting sucked out into the air, to its flame-kissed finale, where a severely disfigured Nazi captain ( Pilou Asbæk) does battle with a wild-eyed paratrooper ( Wyatt Russell), the movie doesn't pause to dwell on the tangled secrets of its alternate-history setup or the nitty-gritty details of its gruesome pulp plot. Abrams-produced combat-horror movie.īy splicing together men-on-a-mission war movies with the splatter-filled carnage of a first-person shooter, Overlord feels like the result of a lab experiment gone haywire. When he became a filmmaker, he knew he wanted to make a war movie one day, but he had no idea it would be a completely bonkers one like Overlord, his new J.J. As a movie-obsessed kid, he was completely fixated by his granddad's stories and his photo albums, which transported him to a different era. When director Julius Avery was a boy, his grandfather used to show him medals, disarmed grenades, and bullets he kept from his time serving in the North African campaign during World War II.
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