Sunday, October 7, 2018

Island Nazi Zombies...it's ALWAYS Island Nazi Zombies....

Shock Waves (1977)


     Here's a piece of crap I once saw in the late 80's. It's about submarine Nazi Zombies, which is why I'm calling it a piece of crap. An excursion with a compliment full of annoying people runs across a derelict ship and end up making landfall on a deserted island. But it's not REALLY  deserted....Peter Cushing's there, just hanging out in a deserted hotel.  After telling him about the derelict ship, he freaks out and investigates. Turns how he knows that ship and what it means: Island Nazi Zombies. Pretty soon they start picking off the group one by one in the most unexciting ways possible and I'm just as bored now as I was 30 years ago.

This isn't scary. This is NEVER scary.

     Not very gory, not very scary, really slow moving. Mostly spooky music with the monsters moving slowly, killing people very boringly. The '80s made a tremendous impact on horror films, and I'm starting to see why. After seeing several of these lackluster films from the '70s, it needed a change, and the argument could be made that it was spearheaded with 1978's Halloween.

Monday: A franchise so large, it accounts for 1/3rd of this years movie picks...



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