Customer Reviews
Garbage - By: SP Crowley, 28 Oct 2008 
Someone once had a decent idea for a zombie revenge film featuring sympathetically viewed nazis wiped outin a French village during WW2.
Then they tried to make it into a film.
Clearly the only way to obtain any cash was to promise lots of naked young flesh & it was all spent on said young ladies. Clearly, nothing was spent on hiring actors, writers or even a special effects department. I have seen better at a school play (no, really! If your zombies have to crawl out of a lake, use waterproof paint which isn't going to run all over the victims.) There is nothing at all that is good about this movie. Nothing.
Worst film ever - By: Mr Bubbles, 07 Oct 2008 Avoid this film at all costs. I bought this film as a fan of zombie films & especially Nazi zombie films (I mean what can be more scary than Nazi zombies,right?)BIG MISTAKE, The acting is terrible, special effects are not special at all & the story is a mixture of Nazi zombie film, soft core pornography & pantomime. If Nazi zombie films are your thing try 'Shock waves' or 'Outpost' whichin compared to this seem like masterpieces.
A ZOMBIE NAZI MOVIE - By: stuart, 26 Oct 2007 
A mysterious rash of disappearances plagues a small French town, & The Mayor, (Howard Vernon) is under fire from the townspeople to solve them. When word reaches the city about the disappearances, reporter Katya, (Gilda Arancio) finds that the townspeople believe the lake is haunted from a battle that occurred during World War II, when a German infantry group was gunned downin the town after taking shelter there. When they couldn't decide what to do with the bodies, they were dumpedin the nearby lake. When more disappearances are found & are blamed on the squadron, now turned into zombies, young Helena, (Anouchka) who's father was one of the soldiersin the troupe, comes forward to help them, they team together to stop the zombies before they overrun the town.
The Good News: For all that's been thrown at this one, it's really not as bad as it's reputation gives it. It's main strength comesin the fact that the zombies are on-screen early & often, resultingin them having a lot of screen-time & maybe more than any other entryin the genre. When the first zombie is visibly on-screenin less than five minutes, it lends a lot of excitement, as the film will quite fast-paced to keep up with the standards of the genre. There's hardly a moment goes by where there isn't some form of exploitation going on, either from the zombies or the sleaze, & it moves along quite quickly, never once boring through the action that transpires, a real feat. When the zombies are on-screen, it's mostly good stuff, leading to plenty of attacks. The main assault on the town, where the entire legion swarms out of the lake & shuffle off, attacking anything that moves, is a lot of small little action scenes thrownin that make the scene all the more entertaining. Seeing them deploy a fairly successful tactic, where one would slowly advance on a potential victim with one, only for another one to come up behind & take a bite out of the neck. It was a fairly successful tactic & provided some fun scenes to be had with that being deployed. The attacksin the lake are just as good. The volleyball team massacre is the highlight, as the rotting corpses are seen to be visibly stalk the unsuspecting victims, lending it some decent suspense scenes, & being that the victims are all nude make the groping & grabbing really sleazy. That is one of the reasons why the whole film feels like it was an excuse to get a lot of young, attractive chicks to take off their clothes. Very few of the actressesin this movie get to keep their clothes on. Half of the film is taken up by good, old-fashioned full frontal nudity. When the full, complete form of the nude body is seen before the film is barely a minute into it's time, & is also immediately followed by a scene where she stretches out on a convenient log & allows the camera to complete a slow & sleazy crawl up & down her body makes for compelling sleaze viewing. With the other attacks on women throughout usually accompanied with themin a state of undress, it makes the film sleazier. A lengthy sex scene doesn't help matters, & it is strangely hypnotic & erotic, a real testament to itself. The ending conflagrationin the steel mill is a great conclusion, giving tons of great action, including shoot-outs, hand-to-hand fighting, & even a flamethrower broughtin on the action, resultingin a massive fireball as numerous zombies are engulfedin flames & wander around for several moments on fire before consumed & fallingin a heap of flames. With a few more deaths for the zombies as well, this really succeedsin ending the film on a high note. Despite all the bad reviews, this one is a really decent affair.
The Bad News: Despite all the negativity surrounding this one, there isn't a lot wrong with it. The main drawback is the downright terrible makeup for the zombies. Basically, there is a little latex slapped on to form a charming shade of green through an effect unmistakably achieved with the use of poster paint which is not waterproof, either. It chips, flakes & washes off. Above all, it stops at the neckline & cuffs & around the eyes, meaning that every time one of the zombies moves, stretches or even just blinks, we get flashes of healthy pink skin. It takes away from the attacks when this transpires, & really takes the viewer out of the movie. Another problem is the flashback, which would've worked had two big errors not occurred. The first is that there's really nothing on-screen to indicate that a battle is taking place, despite the sound effects doing their best to convince otherwise, & the whole affair beyond the erotic love-scene. The flashback also exposes one of the worst chronology errors of all time, being incredibly easy to spot & not at all that hard to miss. The fact still remains, is that the ineptness of the effects if the real reason why this is judged harshly, otherwise it's not that bad of a film.
The Final Verdict: While nowhere near the list of the worst zombie movies ever made, this is still a quite enjoyable & definitely cheesy entry. There's a lot to like & a lot to dislike, & therefore is only to be recommended for the most discriminating Euro-Horror fan or those looking for a new movie to rip on with friends.
Overlooked classic (well maybe not, but still fun) - By: micheal zeeland, 19 Oct 2007 This movie has not what you would call a 'good story' or a 'plot' or
'good actors' or 'a budget' or a director with 'basic directing skills', but still...
It,s fun! Somehow it manages to exude a wonderful, creepy atmosphere that kept me watching. And, let's be honest, the concept of zombiefied nazi's is very, very, dare i say unglaublichly cool.
Storyline...? - By: , 20 Sep 2004 
The storyline is an utter joke. Director Jean Rollin might be able to come up with some excuse but this film is a bore. For some, the skinny-dipping ladiesin a short scene may be a perk for this largely boring film. If you're after a laugh, check out the awful make-up effects for the zombies. Horror/erotic director J. Rollin must have been having a joke here.
