© Richard Raaphorst
Aborted Nazi zombie movie Worst Case Scenario is one of the best horror movies never made, so it's exciting to hear that despite all the trouble director Richard Raaphorst had raising financing for it, he's already secured a noteworthy backer for his planned follow-up, Frankenstein's Army. Dark Sky Films and parent group MPI Media Group, which have brought us acclaimed horror fare like The House of the Devil, Deadgirl, Them, Hatchet II and the upcoming Stake Land, will co-produce and distribute Frankenstein's Army (formerly known as Army of Frankenstein), with filming set to begin this spring.
While we may never get to see Worst Case Scenario as a full-fledged film, Frankenstein's Army incorporates some of the concepts from that abandoned project -- namely the undead Nazi angle, as the synopsis describes:
Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat.
Production on Frankenstein's Army should wrap up late this year, meaning we could see it sometime in 2012 (fingers crossed).
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