Zombie Lake

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Summary: Strange but entertaining.
Review: If you cross the three genres horror, soft porn and family drama you get Zombie Lake. It was probably hard for the distributors to find an audience for this one. None of the genres work very well in this film expect the nudity of course. But it tends to be more comical than erotic especially in the scene where the female basket team baths nude in the lake. The music in that scene must be heard to be believed. Howard Vernon, who plays the mayor, gives the film some dignity it maybe don't deserve. This is much worser than Oasis of the Zombies and the zombie make-up is so bad you won't believe your eyes. It's so bad it's hard to think intelligent people has made it. But at the same time it's entertaining to watch so I give it three stars anyway. Fans of bad euro films may like it, but others probably want to stay away from it.

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Summary: Scared the Living Hebby Jeebys Outta Me!
Review: This movie has honestly got to be one of the most horrifying, gruesome movies of all time. Despite what other reviewers may say about this movie, it is very graphic and very scary. The so-called fake make-up that the zombie's wear looked like real skin coming off and that gave me the jitters all over! What I think had me staying up all night with my teddy bear and night light on was seeing the zombies come out and take the girls in the lake and then even showing underwater shots of their lake that was obviously filmed in a spooky dooky 4 ft. deep pool!! I truly don't see how anyone couldn't have enjoyed this film because it really makes your heart skip a few beats and then some. If you want a terrifying zombie film with the most realistic-looking zombies and an amazingly intricate and well-developed plot, look no further. This movie will leave you scarred with a phobia for lakes and swamps for as long as you live as it has done to me!

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Summary: A different kind of Zombie film
Review: As a fan of Italian horror/zombie movies, I wasn't sure what to make of this French release when ordering it. The price was right however so I decided to give it a try. While not the worst film I have ever seen, it was completely different from Italian Zombie flicks. The violence is toned way down. Even when someone is killed there is a limited amount of blood. There are other noticeable things about the movie that only took me one viewing to notice such as: the underwater scenes of the zombies were obviously filmed in a pool (you can see the side wall in the background), the time line is way off as a former Nazi solider who died during the war could not have an eight-year-old daughter 35 years after World War II (this part really amazed me) and as mentioned by other reviewers, the makeup was poor (it would rub off when the zombies attacked someone).
That being said, it was different and it was worth the price ($9.99) although I'm glad I didn't spend $20 or more on it.
It was nice also to finally see a film by Jean Rollin, a director I have heard of but had never had the chance to see any of his works.
Don't expect anything along the lines of Italian cinema here and you won't be disappointed.

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Summary: Grade Z Eurotrash galore
Review: This Eurotrash grade Z zombie film is hillarious. Chock full of nudity (lots of nudity)a very long sex scene in which the nazi keeps his pants on the whole time(?) oh and the zombies makeup is nothing but green paint poorly slapped on and whenever they attack their victims it rubs off on the victims as well...not to mention the watercolor red blood that leaves no puncture marks on the flesh...great stuff. But the real kicker of this film...this movie was obviously taking place in the late 70's so doesnt it seem odd the nazi's daughter is still a little kid????...hahahaha classic bad cinema..I love it

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Summary: Zombie Lake is quite entertaining...
Review: The video box reads... "The Most Terrifying Zombie Massacre Ever To Come To The Screen". In truth, it is quite possibly "The Worse Zombie Massacre to Ever Come to Any Screen". I am a fan of laughably bad "B" Cinema, and enjoyed this very much. No one should take it seriously. Its no Dawn Of The Dead and will never be. Its a peice of eurotrash Cinema about Nazi Zombies who emerge from a lake wearing horribly done green makeup, and feed on bare breasted beauties who dare to swim in said lake. So, basically... the whole movie is an excuse for gratutious nudity and zombie carnage. I love it! If you want a new peice of cheese you can laugh at and add to your collection, pick this one up.

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Summary: i can't believe i paid good money for this trash
Review: if there was a way to rate this "no stars" or "negative stars" i would. however, one is the lowest i can use. i suppose READING the reviews here rather than looking at only the stars would have given me a clue that, while in the mood for a good zombie movie and getting the living tar scared out of me, i purchased a comedy.
if you want to be scared....RUN...AWAY from this movie. find something else like "the sound of music" or "europa, europa"...the nazis in these films are more scary than the ones in "zombie lake".

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Summary: Most terrifying zombie massacre to come to the big screen...
Review: Thats exactly wat it isnt. IT isnt scary at all man what a bad movie. The reason i gave it 2 stars because of the idea, nazi zombies. The makeup is horrible. The worst part is the dubbing on this movie. WOW one of the worst dubbing ever. .... FYI: DONT BUY THIS MOVIE.

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Summary: More Than Just Your Average Swimming Hole!
Review: Zombie Lake, touted as a piece from the Euroshock collection, was something of a shock to me for a few reasons. First, while I had expected Zombies (of which there were a few here and there) and I did expect a lake, I didn't expect there to be so many people wanting to swim their naked before the camera, through the art of revealing angles that tried to hide the movie's utter lack of a budget/plot, closed in on their final moments. Personally, swimming in something that's full of pond life, not to mention a bit of greenery and quite a few vision-obscuring plants, doesn't sound like a fanciful rendition of naked swimming to me, but I guess Zombies know better.

From the very beginning we find ourselves thrust into a low budget spectacle, with a setting in the French countryside that seems to be overrun with skinny-dippers and where young women seem to be disappear without so much as a trace. In fact, our initial scenes deal with a young woman that went swimming by herself, not to mention a whole basketball team (yes, I think this gives away a little of the mindset that the movie's clever packaging tries to hide) that seems to find themselves int he eager maws drifting beneath the "Lake of Ghosts." Enter some more bumbling deaths and a Paris new reporter that finds at, amongst other things, that a loosely hinged plot featuring Nazis from WW2 can turn anything, even a DVD that touts clothing optional scenes as its special feature, into something you can advertise as a horror movie, and you have yourself the wonders of Zombie Lake!

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Summary: one of the worst zombie movies ever
Review: Yes, this gets the golden turd award formerly held by Bruno Mattei's stupid-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt "Night of the Zombies." "Zombie Lake" commits the cardinal sin of being an underwater Nazi zombie movie that's not only ineptly made, but incredibly boring and unconvincing, as well.

Okay, the movie starts with a prolonged scene of a nude girl who gets attacked by a zombie in a lake (uh-huh). Then, so help me, the 'plot' starts to unfold (*yawn*). A dim-bulb reporter wants to do a story on this small town's 'haunted' lake (slow news week, I'd say), and the Mayor (goggle-eyed Howard Vernon) reveals, in a long, ponderous flashback sequence almost completely devoid of dialogue, that he and his buddies (who, surprisingly, haven't aged at all) killed a bunch of Nazis during World War II and dumped them in the lake. So now, these Nazi zombies live in the lake, periodically coming out to chow down on the town's slow-witted residents.

Visually, the film resembles Lucio Fulci's "Demonia," but director Jean Rollin (who appears in a brief and pointless role as a police inspector) manages to screw things up royally. Umberto Lenzi made his zombies run around and brandish weapons in "City of the Walking Dead," which is laughable, yes, but Rollin commits another cardinal sin in giving his undead Nazis the power to reason (evidenced in the one-on-one 'zombie fight', plus the lead zombie's devotion to his 8-year old 30-year old daughter). Also, the green pancake makeup is really pathetic-looking; it's overstated in some scenes, and lacking in others. And perhaps the final straw is the lack of convincing gore; Euro-zombie movies are notorious for a generous helping of blood and guts, but here it's all hampered by a budget that probably ran in the tens of dollars.

From one zombie fan to the next, and all parties in between, save your money for a competent film from the Fulci or Romero camp. "Zombie Lake" doesn't even work in a so-bad-it's-good way.

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Summary: Exquisitely bad cinema.
Review: Ed Wood's films (particularly Plan 9 From Outer Space) are widely considered to be the worst ever made. That is absolutely untrue. Zombie Lake makes Plan 9 look like Seven Samurai or Lawrence of Arabia. It is without doubt the worst film ever made. It has to be. It must.
I will not give a synopsis; other reviewers have done that. I will instead share some of the treasures contained in Zombie Lake:
1) A beautiful, nubile young woman is completely nude during the opening credits. Yes, this must be a record; full frontal nudity during the opening titles!
2) The zombies' makeup is of the 99 cent, K Mart variety. The makeup rubs off on the victims' bodies, and as the film progresses, washes off of the zombies. By their final emergence from the lake, one zombie's face is completely devoid of makeup.
3) During one shining, glorious moment, the camera operator can clearly be seen in a mirror.
4) The female "basketball" team, emerges from their VW bus and begins to play with a volleyball.
5) Said female team begin disrobing, and reveal that none of them are wearing underclothes (and they just came back from practice). In fact, none of the women in the film wear underclothes, except for one young woman who is taking a bath (the tub conveniently located on her lawn).
6) One member of the team gleefully strips off all of her clothes, and enters the lake still wearing her shoes. She must be a modest young lady. In the very next scene (an underwater shot),her shoes have miraculously disappeared.
7) The underwater shots are obviously shot in a pool. Canvas has been draped over the walls of the pool, and the ripples and folds of the canvas are completely visible. A light and drain are also on full display.
8) The dubbing was done by the worst actors who have ever lived. They speak their lines with all the enthusiasm of a ninety year old lung cancer patient. The "rallying the town" scene perfectly illustrates this and stands as one of the high points (?) in the history of bad cinema.
9) The daughter of one of the zombies is eight years old. She was born thirty years previous.
All right, that's enough. Trust me, there is much more to be seen in this film. Any aficionado of bad film must not only see this film, but buy it as well. I have watched my favorite scenes over and over again, and they just improve with each viewing.
It is the worst film ever made. Nothing comes close.