Zombie Lake Directed By Jean Rollin (1981). Starring Howard Vernon.
This
has a reputation as being one of the dumbest, worst, most pitiful underwater
zombie flicks ever made, its so bad that Jess Franco abandoned it and then Jean
Rollin took over. According to Wikipedia, Rollin only had two weeks to throw
together this half baked slop and was embarrassed by it, he should be! I was
very confused by Zombie Lame (or Lake) and figured it might be the only French
zombie film (its probably not) it does keep you glued to the screen with
constant naked women though. A naked sunbather pulls up the warning sign at a remote
lake and dives in (there are so many gynecological shots of water logged
beavers in Zombie Lake that its at least watchable, if you are straight).
Howard Vernon ( Franco's infamous Dr. Orloff)
has to deal with all kinds of problems and the villagers literally pile up dead
bodies on his doorstep! In a flashback to Nazi occupied France, the mayor and
villagers kill Nazis and throw them in the lake. Why they came back from the
dead is never explained. The word zombie is said only once in this “Zombie” movie,
and mostly they are referred to as ghosts. The mayor lives in a gaudy house
decorated with statues and gargoyles, maybe its all the nazi gold he stole from
the dead bodies. Or maybe its all those Orloff bucks he made off the sequels
and action figures. Next time you see a canal beware, there might be nazi bodies
hidden at the bottom, a secret conducted by your mayor. The mayor bails the town
out of jams and enlists the help of a little girl who saves the town, her
father is one of the nazi zombies! Her father wears lime green jello makeup and
gives her a necklace. These zombies’ brains may be infested but their hearts
are still affectionate and tender. They make it hard to shut off this bad movie
by adding a whole basketball team of female skinny dippers and I lost the
remote! Expect terrible zombies but stay for the French hair pie. Sadly I found it more enjoyable then Shock Waves and have yet to see Oasis of The Zombies.
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