Nazis at the Center of the Earth

Nazis at the Center of the Earth
Directed by	Joseph Lawson
Written by	Paul Bales
Produced by	David Michael Latt David Rimawi Paul Bales
Starring	Dominique Swain Jake Busey Josh Allen Christopher Karl Johnson
Cinematography	Alex Yellen
Edited by	Rob Pallatina
Music by	Chris Ridenhour
Distributed by	The Asylum
Release date	April 24, 2012 (2012-04-24)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Template:Film US
Language	English

Nazis at the Center of the Earth is a direct-to-video sci-fi action film produced by The Asylum. It was released on 24 April 2012 on Blu-ray and DVD.

Unlike other Asylum's films, this film is a mockbuster of the popular PC game Wolfenstein 3D which shares the same story and characters of undead zombies set to take over the world. The film goes as far to have Robot Hitler, the same enemy that may be found at the end of Wolfenstein 3D. The story also shares similarities to the film Iron Sky and was once believed to be the source of its inspiration.

Plot

A group of researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a platoon of gas-masked soldiers wearing swastika arm bands and dragged into a hidden continent in the center of the Earth. There, they discover that Josef Mengele and group of surviving Nazi soldiers are plotting an invasion of Earth to create a Fourth Reich.

Cast

• Dominique Swain as Paige Morgan
• Jake Busey as Adrian Reistad
• Josh Allen as Lucas Moss
• Christopher Karl Johnson as Josef Mengele
• Lilan Bowden as May Yun
• Trevor Kuhn as Brian Moak
• Marlene Okner as Silje Lagesen
• Andre Tenerelli as Aaron Blechman
• James Maxwell Young as Adolf Hitler
• Maria Pallas as Angela Magliarossa
• Adam Burch as Mark Maynard

Production

Lawson received the directorial assignment after reading the script and pitching himself as director in the fall of 2011. The film took less than four months to make. On Asylum, Lawson said: "They are a lowD-budget film studio,[...] I knew pretty much going in that this was going to be a B movie. We had a 12-day shoot and a budget well south of $200,000."

The entire movie was storyboarded by the director shot for shot before production began in November, 2011.

Locations for the film included Willow Studios in Los Angeles (underground in the Nazi bunker and Nifleheim Station), Blue Cloud Ranch in Santa Clarita (opening war night scenes and the underground cavern), and the Asylum Studios (hallways, labs, medical rooms, rapelling scenes and green screen virtual sets).

The film features one of the highest visual effects shot counts in an Asylum film, 379, and the effects were done in four weeks time.

In his commentary director Joseph J. Lawson cites as his visual influences: Steven Speilberg, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, John Carpenter, John Landis, David Lean, J.J. Abrams and Robert Rodriguez.

Critical and audience reaction to the film has been mixed with everything from "absolute garbage" to "the Citizen Kane of Asylum films". Most reviewers give it an average score but most, both positive and negative, agree it is a film that should be seen if only to be surprised by the outrageous things that happen.

External links

• Nazis at the Center of the Earth at The Asylum
• Nazis at the Center of the Earth at IMDb