Realização:
Ken WiederhornCâmara:
Reuben TraneMúsica:
Richard EinhornElenco:
Brooke Adams, Luke Halpin, John Carradine, Peter Cushing, Fred Buch, Don Stout, D.J. Sidney, Jack DavidsonStreaming (1)
Sinopses(1)
In the dark days of World War II, the Nazi High Command ordered its scientists to create a top secret race of indestructibvle zombie storm troopers: unliving, unfeeling, unstoppable monstrosities that killed with their bare hands. They were known as the Death Corp. Somewhere, off the coast of Florida, they have survived. (texto oficial do distribuidor)
(mais)Críticas (3)
Um filme surpreendentemente bem-sucedido considerando um orçamento pequeno e um tema maluco. Não é um trash tão óbvio como a sinopse do enredo pode sugerir. As fórmulas cliché não faltam nos diálogos e a música é ultrabarata (e devidamente psicadélica e estranha), mas a atmosfera é densa e o drive geral do filme também não descansa. Não há vestígios de sangue, mas o suspense funciona. E os nazis-zombies são fixes. Podem provocar um ligeiro sorriso no início, mas gradualmente começa a ter respeito por eles. Ken Wiederhorn sabia como filmá-los para torná-los tão demoníacos.
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Zombie Nazis crawl out of the sea and drag the visitors of a remote exotic island underwater. Despite its absurd premise, the film abstains from cheap shock effects in favour of slowly building atmosphere. It surprisingly successfully uses water as a setting for horror, and like Jaws, manages to evoke a sense of unease about what may lurk beneath the surface. The horror here is not the zombie Nazis, but the water in which the characters die (even on land, where there are pools and aquariums). But the film can't sustain the unsettling atmosphere until the end, and eventually runs out of breath.
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If not for allegedly being the first to employ the Nazi SS zombie concept, this trash flick in which a group of people run back and forth on a tropical island would have been forgotten long ago. A telling characteristic of Shock Waves may be the fact that, whereas in Romero and post-Romero zombie movies people usually meet their demise because they can’t set aside their egos and join forces against a common threat, here they die simply because they are klutzes, and also because the screenwriter simply wants them to die, since a good bit of runtime has passed without anyone going toes up. Nevertheless, it’s necessary to admit that the film has a certain distinctive charm and is a lot of fun, albeit unintentionally. The film’s central attraction, namely the unit of underwater undead Totenkorps killers, is put to utterly absurd use when the filmmakers first make viewers wait twenty minutes before they finally appear on the screen and then they have the zombies constantly climbing out of the ocean and then crawl back into it for the next twenty minutes. As soon as the action begins, however, the entertainment goes full-throttle. Space-time ruptures as the SS zombies and their victims disappear under the surface or in the dense undergrowth and emerge somewhere else, logic goes out the window and the mechanically simple killings alternate with bizarre scenes like “Who killed our buddy? How about we ask the pale guys in SS uniforms?” And when the characters happen to come up with a way to kill the monsters, the charm of sincere trashiness is achieved. Though Shock Waves doesn’t provide absolutely wild entertainment, it is a likable and stylishly unadulterated diversion in the genre of zombie flicks.
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