Frankenstein's Army

Near the end of the Second World War, a group of Soviet soldiers advancing into eastern Germany comes upon a hidden Nazi laboratory. Inside, they learn that the scientists there have been working from the notes of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, stitching together body parts taken from fallen soldiers to build an army of super-soldiers. What began as an experiment has become a last desperate attempt by the German leadership to avoid defeat, and the Russians soon find themselves fighting for their lives against a threat unlike anything they expected. The film is directed by Richard Raaphorst, working from a screenplay by Miguel Tejada-Flores and Chris W. Mitchell, and runs 84 minutes. Karel Roden plays Viktor, the scientist at the center of the laboratory's work, alongside Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym, Alexander Mercury, Luke Newberry and Hon Ping Tang as members of the Soviet unit. Todd Brown, Nick Spicer and Aram Tertzakian produced the film, a co-production involving the Netherlands, the United States and the Czech Republic.

The film was released in early 2013. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.5/10 from 26 reviews, while on TMDB its audience rating stands at 6.1/10 from 299 votes, a modest difference that suggests viewers responded to it somewhat more warmly than critics did. It mixes action and horror, and it came at the start of Raaphorst's work as a feature director, following a period in which he was known for short films and design work.