Review: Shock Waves (1977)
By William Pattison
For Horror Bob’s Blog
This classic horror movie concerns a shipwrecked yachting
party. Rose and her fellow yacht-mates, including the captain run aground on an
island when they hit an odd-looking freighter. Once beached, they discover an
aging SS Commander who had been in charge of a squad of Nazi zombies.
Now these castaways must find a way to escape of die at the
hands of the Nazi super soldiers.
I have wanted to see this film since I heard about it in the
80s and saw that fantastic poster with the Nazi super soldiers wearing those
goggles.
Amusingly, this film really doesn’t feel dated even with the
70s fashions. I also thought the Nazi super soldiers were the most original
zombie-like threats, with their fairly normal faces and the white hair. The
goggles added a bit of creepiness to their appearance. The only thing I found
stupid was that if you rip the goggles off the zombie sokdiers faces they die.
Having John Carradine as the boat captain and Peter Cushing as the former SS
commander made this film really feel like old home week to me. I really loved
this film it was a treat. Unfortunately the gore hounds will be royally disappointed
this is a royally bloodless film. You get to see a couple of drowned bodies,
but that is as far as it goes. Though this film has a PG rating, in modern
terms this film is a firm G rating. Still, if you can get past the rating and
lack of red stuff you will be in for a very interesting installment in this
genre… So I’m still recommending it…too
bad…
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