Legion of the Dead (2001)

User Rating:

2.6/10   

Director:

Olaf Ittenbach

Writer:

Olaf Ittenbach (writer)

Release Date:

5 November 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Plot:

Two guys, handsome William and his side kick Luke have just started their trip through the beautiful...

Plot Keywords:

Vampire | Blood | Gore | Decapitation | Psychopath

Cast

Michael Carr	...	William
Russell Friedenberg	...	Luke
Kimberly Liebe	...	Geena
Matthias Hues	...	Togaio - Blond Man
Hank Stone	...	Jeff
Harvey J. Alperin	...	Nicolas
Christopher Kriesa	...	Psycho Mike (as Chris Kriesa)
Darren Shahlavi	...	Peter
Joe Cook	...	Joe
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bryan Addinall	...	Gangster
Richard John Bochniak	...	Mick
Eric Gladhart	...	Gangster
Ron Grandl	...	Robin
Jay Harik	...	Motel Owner
Morgan Hunter	...	Thug
Chin Meyer	...	Michael
Jeff Motherhead	...	Casey
Katherine Prioska	...	Hippie Girl
Birgit Quirchmayr	...	Cynthia
Dorothea Riemer	...	Mrs. Anderson
Ernest Rosenfelder	...	Ernest
Andrea Seitz	...	Sylvia
Nelly Stacey	...	French Girlfriend
Birgit Stauber	...	Jaqueline
Gwen Van Dam	...	Old Woman

Directed by
Olaf Ittenbach

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Olaf Ittenbach		writer

Produced by
Michael Poettinger	....	producer
Claudia Quirchmayr	....	producer

Original Music by
Jaro Messerschmidt
Ralf Wengenmayr

Cinematography by
Holger Diener

Film Editing by
Thomas Bachmann
Christian Lonk

Casting by
Klaus J. Koch
Claudia Quirchmayr

Production Design by
Michael Poettinger

Costume Design by
Karin Burkert

Makeup Department
Katharina Nädelin	....	key makeup artist
Aylin Ozbay	....	assistant makeup artist

Production Management
Marc Lammers	....	production manager: USA
Michael Poettinger	....	production manager: Germany
Claudia Quirchmayr	....	production manager: Germany

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Thomas Reitmair	....	assistant director

Art Department
Oliver Baumgärtel	....	property master Germany

Sound Department
Roland Platz	....	foley artist
Roland Platz	....	sound editor
Chris Rebay	....	sound designer
Jürgen Roth	....	sound re-recording mixer

Special Effects by
Wayne Beauchamp	....	special effects supervisor
Till Hertrich	....	special effects technician

Camera and Electrical Department
Andreas Birkle	....	assistant camera
Markus Haider	....	electrician
Jens Linnebach	....	assistant camera: "b" camera
Gerhard Reda	....	electrician
Simone Schmid	....	clapper loader

Other crew
Marlies Damm	....	script supervisor
Marc Lammers	....	location manager: USA
Darren Shahlavi	....	fight choreographer (uncredited)

Thanks
Brian Dettling	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• X-Vision Filmproduction GmbH & Co. KG

Distributors

• X-Vision Filmproduction GmbH & Co. KG (2001-2002) (worldwide) (all media) (sales)
• VCL Communications (2001) (Germany) (VHS)
• Artisan Entertainment (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2002) (Netherlands) (DVD) (VHS)
• Emerald (Argentina) (DVD)
• Emerald (Argentina) (VHS)

Other Companies

• ARRI Rental  camera and lighting equipment provided by
• Studio 507, Munich  sound re-recording
• Studio 507, Munich  sound supervision
• Wavefront Studios  sound post-production
• herbX Medienproduktion GmbH  sound design

Also Known As:

Le6ion of the Dead (USA)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language, drug use and some nudity.

Runtime:

89 min | Germany:80 min (cut version) | Germany:88 min (uncut version) | Argentina:92 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:16 (VHS/DVD rating) | UK:18 | Germany:16 | Sweden:18 (video rating) | USA:R | Argentina:16

Company:

X-Vision Filmproduction GmbH & Co. KG

Trivia:

The cigar that the cigar-smoking man is smoking at the motel is a Croatian Handelsgold.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Making of 'Legion of the Dead' (2001) (V)

Worthless junk.

`Legion of the Dead' was my first movie directed by Olaf Ittenbach and I can't say I'll immediately purchase his other achievements now. Ittenbach is supposed to be a funky, amateur gorehound who stuffs his films with grotesque violence and cheerfully absurd characters. Well, it is gory all right, but even more stupid and pointless. Legion of the Dead seems to handle about all sort of things, but nothing in particular. And in the end, it'll just feel like you've wasted yet another 90 minutes of your precious life. Two main storylines are presented during the first hour of the film. A couple of retarded siblings recruit soldiers for the `Legion' by killing, and literally blow them back to life. In the other storyline, a madman suffering from rabies hijacks two lowlife-friends. Both stories are cut off abruptly and the characters come together in a setting that looks an awful lot like the bar in `From Dusk Till Dawn'… Ittenbach even hired an exact Salma Hayek look-alike for this! The totally ridiculous last half hour is painfully bad and you can consider it an achievement if you sit it through. Every now and then, Ittenbach shows slight signs of ingeniousness through black humor, but the wholesome really stinks. Avoid at all costs!