Shock Waves (1977)

[Scott]

SHOCK WAVES (1977) - A Nazi Zombie film starring Peter Cushing and John Carradine. A boat is hit by a ship at night causing the group to go to a nearby Island occupied by an old Nazi Commander played by Cushing who explains to his guest the story behind the ship wreck in the reef. The zombies don't seem like our usual zombies as they don't eat brains and they don't infect others. Rather they seem to like the water just like in the film ZOMBIE LAKE (1981). I guess Nazi Zombies as a rule like the water. The only parts I really liked were the beginning when the fisherman finds the girls boat and I also liked the images of the group of zombies in the shallow ocean water. The one zombie seemed to live in the old resort swimming pool. I bet that was like a nazi zombie luxury apartment or something.





Post Edited (05-06-05 21:05)

[Menard]

I see this as a cry for help. We are all here for you. (:

[Scott]

My daughter watched SHOCK WAVES with me all the way thru and she said she felt like she had 90 minutes of her life stolen from her and that she wanted it back..........................She thought it was boring, but she was interested enough to be able to notice that the zombies were kinda like the ones from ZOMBIE LAKE coming out of the water. She is a zombie fan so I showed her some highlights from ZOMBIE LAKE a couple weeks ago before seeing all of SHOCK WAVES tonight.

Her favorites zombie films are SHAUN OF THE DEAD and RESIDENT EVIL films, so SHOCK WAVES didn't quite measure up.

[Menard]

Have you shown her Fulci's ZOMBIE? Now that's classic, plus no nazis; unless you take some actors descriptions of Fulci literally. (:

[Scott]

Fulci's ZOMBIE is the best of the best, but she hasn't seen it yet. The only other zombies films she has seen are NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD (original), and 28 DAYS LATER.

[Scott]

She is also a big Bruce Cambell fan having also watched EVIL DEAD, EVIL DEAD II, and ARMY OF DARKNESS.

[Menard]

Scott wrote:

> She is also a big Bruce Cambell fan


Don't worry; she'll probably grow out of that. (:

[Menard]

She is getting in the classics. Thankfully she didn't get her introduction to Romero through DAY OF THE DEAD. But what about WHITE ZOMBIE?

[Alan Smithee]

Why are the zombies wearing sun glasses?

[odinn7]

I suspect those are goggles for diving. It is funny looking.

Scott, I do have to admire you. I don't know how you put up with this torture. You're a greater man than I could ever aspire to be. The only problem:  is it right to subject your daughter to these horrible movies? Are you trying to punish her for something she did once?



Post Edited (05-07-05 00:07)

[Menard]

They are shady characters.

[Menard]

That reminds me...uh Scott...what did your daughter think of OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES?

[Mr_Vindictive]

Shock Waves isn't too bad of a film.  It's fun atleast.

Zombie being the best though?  That's just wrong!  :o)

The one scene in Zombi that ruins everything for me is the infamous scene with the Spanish Conquistidors (sp?).  They've been dead for hundreds of years, yet when they rise they still have flesh.  WTF!?

[Menard]

The conquistadors scene originally ate at me too (uh..no pun intended..heh..heh). But the scene is so darn cool that I was able to look past it. Perhaps it was the soil which preserved them (remember piltdown man?).

ZOMBIE/ZOMBI 2 is perhaps my favorite zombie movie as it is a lot of fun, pumps in the atmosphere, and is gruesome (Giannetto de Rossi is a legendary effects artist).

As fas as zombie movies go, DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) is the yardstick by which others are measured, but I find ZOMBIE/ZOMBI 2 more fun to watch, and the zombies are done so much better (although doing the zombies like they did in DAWN I believe was necessary for the social context of the film). ZOMBIE/ZOMBI 2 is a rare film in which the zombies in the movie actually look better than any attempts at artwork have tried to make them appear.

How can one not love a movie that has a fight between a zombie and a shark? (:

[Mr_Vindictive]

Don't know what it is about Zombi.  I've had a VHS copy for about 6 years now and have only watched it twice or so.

It's my least favorite of Fulchi's work.