Outpost: Black Sun

Beginning immediately after the events of the first film, Nazi-hunter Lena (Catherine Steadman) is on the trail of a notorious war-criminal scientist, Klausener, who at the close of World War II had begun trials of a frightening new technology that can create an immortal army. Lena’s father was a Holocaust survivor who had spent years hunting for German war criminals such as Klausener, and Lena likewise has taken up his efforts to bring them to justice.

While interrogating Neurath, one of Klausener's old colleagues, in Paraguay, he dies from a heart attack after taunting her, claiming that a cabal of Nazi loyalists continue lurking in the shadows, waiting for the perfect chance to strike. She searches his body and finds a map of the former Yugoslavia and documents relating to Hunt, the man from the first movie who was hired to locate an abandoned SS bunker that was the site of Klausener's experiments, indicating that Neurath and Klausener were the ones who hired Hunt. Lena's search for Hunt, whom she believes can take her to Klausener, leads her to a war zone in Eastern Europe (although the exact location is never mentioned, maps clearly show former Yugoslavia).

Meanwhile, a team of mercenaries— the second team which arrived at the outpost at the end of the first film— investigate the outpost. Klausener watches via a direct feed from the mercenaries’ helmet cameras as they are promptly attacked and slaughtered by the undead SS guards at the outpost. He smiles with satisfaction and states that “the job is done” and “it is started”.

There she runs into an acquaintance, a physicist, Wallace (Richard Coyle). He informs her that Hunt and his mercenary bodyguards went to find the bunker and never returned. He encourages her to stop her search because he knows what is coming and she refuses. Lena learns that a NATO rapid reaction force has been secretly battling the undead SS troops, who have been slaughtering villagers across the region and inflicting heavy casualties on the NATO forces. Wallace states that the reality bending electromagnetic field which protects the SS men has been steadily expanding across the countryside.

Suddenly, a unit of US Army troops arrive in the village; a soldier named Blake informs Lena and Wallace that they are there to protect the locals under the auspices of a UN peacekeeping mission since chemical weapons had been used in the civil war. Wallace believes that the US soldiers are there to try and capture the device the SS are using, and seeks to destroy it before any government can take control of it.

Wallace and Lena travel to a local militia camp in hopes of hiring guides, only to find it under attack from the SS, with the militiamen and NATO soldiers stationed there having been slaughtered. Hiding under the corpse of a dead soldier, Lena sees a SS trooper brutally slaughter a militiaman. The next morning Lena and Wallace discover that the NATO troops had tried and failed to set off an EMP in order to disable the machine protecting the SS forces. Continuing on their way through the countryside they discover devastated villages and piles of belongings littering the sides of the roads.

So, pooling resources, they end up helping a professional military unit they meet take on the advancing army, the product of Klausener's experiments, a battalion of zombie Nazi Storm Troopers. Their leader, SS Brigadefuhrer Gotz, also known as the 'breather' and another of Klausener's old SS associates, has attached Hunt to the large generator that controls the undead soldiers. Using Hunt, Gotz has managed to increase the range of the electro-magnetic field emitted by the generator, enabling him and his soldiers to travel beyond the bunker and massacre scores of people. Lena, Wallace, and the unit aim to shut down the source of the evil army and prevent a Fourth Reich.

• Catherine Steadman as Lena
• Richard Coyle as Wallace
• Clive Russell as Marius
• Michael Byrne as Neurath
• Martin Bell as Young Neurath
• Johnny Meres as SS Brigadeführer Götz
• Julian Wadham as Francis Hunt

Original Outpost producers Kieran Parker and Arabella Croft were joined by Matador producer Nigel Thomas for this sequel.[3]

Filming took place at the old Lockerbie Academy (prior to its demolition), Kirkcudbright Army Training Area and on the Balmaghie estate near Castle Douglas [4]

Critical reception for Outpost: Black Sun has been negative.[5][6][7] What Culture panned the film overall stating that although it initially held promise, the film "devolves into tedious trotting around dilapidated German villages" and that "Even if the direction and performances are generally decent for a film of the type, it plays out like a dull mission from a particularly naff first-person-shooter video game, until an absurd final boss – a super-Nazi hooked up to electricity – appears, and makes it even more difficult to take seriously."[8] In contrast, Anton Bitel of Little White Lies was positive in his review and praised the film's performances and production values.[9]

• Outpost: Black Sun at IMDb