I thought that Halloween and immediately thereafter would be a good time for a short break from zombie-blogging; after all, if there’s one time of the year at which one might suffer from living-dead saturation, that’s it. But there’s always a fresh undead corpse rolling down the pike.

During World War II, American soldiers experience horrors and phenomena in a battle that cannot be explained. Hitler’s desperation to win the war at all costs, combined with his obsession with science and the paranormal give rise to a deadly type of warfare. Hitler unleashes his secret weapons -unstoppable Nazi super-soldiers- onto the advancing Allied army. After the D-Day landing, Lieutenant John Schmidt and his squad suffer losses when they encounter the monstrous German soldiers. When the military acknowledges the supernatural incidents, Lt. Schmidt is reassigned to a new unit with a mission to destroy Hitler’s weapons lab. After they are shot down in occupied France, the soldiers find themselves caught between the German army and a creature that can only be described as …a werewolf.

Werewolves and zombies (who get short shrift in the description) against our doughty G.I.’s? Sounds great (and it’s getting good reviews as a cheesy B-movie throwback), but I gotta question the front-and-center placement of Hitler’s face on the DVD cover — a real monster who seems a bit trivialized by association with the made-up kind.

The DVD includes a commentary and behind-the-scenes documentary. $13.99 at Amazon.com.