In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.
A decent instalment of a recurrent subgenre, Trench 11 manages to be several films at once, each complementing the other in their amalgamation into a singularly realised tale of dread and terror.
Smartly, director Leo Scherman never goes for laughs in this sepia-toned period piece, instead creating a sense of 78-feet-below-ground claustrophobia that finds middle ground between The Thing and The Descent.
It's a zombie film, it's a WWI film, it's a science-run-amok film. But mostly it's a claustrophobic thriller about Allied soldiers fleeing a bunker with the ravenous infected below and kill-happy Germans above - 90 gripping minutes of literal escapism.
Trench 11 does not disappoint. The crew's decent into virtually the unknown will keep you in suspense. Scherman and team create a believable war-horror film.
