Anouchka, Antonio Mayans, Howard Vernon, Jean Rollin, Nadine Pascal ...( see more  see more... ) , Pierre Escourrou

During World War II, a group of villagers ambushed and defeated a band of German soldiers and threw their bodies in the nearby lake. Now, the Nazis have returned as angry zombies, preying on unsuspect...( read more  read more... )ing teenage female swimmers and skinny-dippers. The town mayor (Howard Vernon) doesn't know what to do, but a young girl may hold a crucial secret. Cult director Jean Rollin (The Naked Vampire) helmed this infamous horror film.

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R, 92 min.

Directed by: Jean Rollin

Release Date: January 1, 1980

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DVD Release Date: March 27, 2001

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  • March 30, 2008
    Blah. Zombie nazis in a lake that kill chicks. Pretty lame.
  • October 16, 2006
    Actually worse than Franco's similar Oasis of the Zombies (people often confuse the two) but fun if you like this sort of thing. Contains a creepy, incestual storyline, if that kind of thing bothers you.
  • December 23, 2008
    During world war II a group of villagers ambushed and defeated a ban of german soldiers and ended up throwing there bodies in a nearby like now of course as with any zombie movie they have returned to prey on the unsuspecting female swimmers and no one knows how to stop them exce...( read more)pt maybe one little girl that holds a link to one of the nazi's. Thats the plot of this one very cheesy movie and its two parts cheesy bad one part cheesy good with horrible FX's some might like it others wont i found this just ok and laughable to not turn off.
  • July 19, 2008
    1. Gratuitous nudity does not a good horror film make.

    2. A rubbish plot involving a girl realising that one of the zombies is her father and earning his trust does not a good horror film make.

    3. Green face paint and sellotape does not a good zombie make.

    4. If Sam Raim...( read more)i can make Evil Dead on a budget of $7.89, then nobody else has any excuse for crappiness just because they have a low budget.

    5. This film does not a good horror - or any other type of genre film - make
  • April 17, 2007
    A good film but lack adrenaline-induced action. It appears that the creators thought having nude semblance meant more.
    Overall, it would have been great if the plot had strength.
  • August 10, 2009
    This film is simply enough: Brilliant. Call it what you want. Awful, ridiculous, absurd. All the more I consider it brilliant. Let's go down the checklist. Nudity. Check. Oh wait, double check. Bush. Check. Zombies with Crayon make-up on their face? Check. All girl Volleyball tea...( read more)m? Check. Check. Check. Check. See this film. Check.
  • February 24, 2009
    Last night I finished Zombie Lake. I must say... I think this movie was so full of unnecessary nakedness, sex scenes with characters who weren't in the movie at all other than that scene... and horrible retarded plot...things I hate... it was so full of that, I loved it.

    One o...( read more)f the only extra's (if not the one and only) was "alternative clothed scenes"

    SPOILERS++++++++++++++++++=++3w=-409230938402 (but are you going to watch it if you haven't already?)

    So... once upon the 2nd world war... there was this town in... Spain or France and there were some dead Nazi's laying around. Word has it that the Nazi's are coming, and the town doesn't want the Nazi's to see that there are some dead Nazi's! Trouble!!! So, they throw them into the lake, obviously. Don't weigh them down! Bodies sink.

    Anyway, now... 20 years later or whatever, all the naked frolicking ladies who love to go skinny dipping in what looks to be a nasty ass bog are getting MURDERED. MURDERED I SAY!!!

    FLASHBACK! Two people who haven't been in the movie at all are doing it. DOING IT. In the hay! Duh! Then, that parts over! Later we learn that that dude was a NAZI and he was doing it with a LOCAL! You know what happened. She done got PREGNANT. But, she died in childbirth or something. He died because he was a Nazi and got thrown into the lake.

    FLASH CURRENT! The cops are called up to the village as a naked female basketball team has been murdered in the bog, I MEAN BEAUTIFUL LAKE. At least the water is clear enough for the necessary underwater shots of them treading water, showing off their vagina.

    The villagers tell the cops that the ghosts from the lake killed the entire naked basketball team. They're all like, "Yeah Right" which OBVIOUSLY leads them to ultimate death by Nazi zombies.

    Around this point we see the now 10 year old (She didn't age as much as everyone else I guess) girl, laying about in bed. A giant green man walks in! Flesh (or a poor makeup job) is falling off! He stands and stares at her. She stares back. He grabs his beautiful necklace that was given to him by her mother before they both DIED. He shows it to the girl, she is shocked! HER MOTHER IS WEARING THAT IN HER ONLY PICTURE OF HER!!! OH MY GOD! So, the sensitive zombie takes off the necklace and gives it to the little girl. He's so proud of his daughter. Other zombies come to eat her, as they do... but Nazi Dad Zombie isn't having it and gets them the fuck out.

    DEEP.

    Um... then since the cops are dead the villagers make a hilarious speech about how the Nazi Zombies are "waging war" against them and they have to do something about it. They know the little girl is good buds with one of them, so they ask her for help.

    She finally gives in and says she'll do it as long as they get her a bucket of fresh blood. "No problem!!!!" they say. As you would. She says that she'll get them there, and give them the blood, but then she's leaving. And she doesn't want to talk about it. "I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT." She cries abouther decision, but she is assured by head town guy that it's for the best.

    She gives the blood and leaves. Then, the towns people come in with their home made FLAME THROWER!!!!! Burning the zombies!!!!!!

    The emotional ending is unbelievable. Never mind the sudden change from night to day, this girl is HURTING. She stands, holding her necklace in her hands... asking her re-dead undead Nazi father to not forget her. "I'll never forget you"

    FIN!
  • December 16, 2008
    A group of World War II soldiers come back as face painted hickey givers in this goof movie. The zombies don't actually bite anyone is this movie, they kind of just butterfly kiss them to death. There is a subplot about a girl who's dad is one of the zombies but it is ignored for...( read more) the numerous naked ladies that wander into the film.
  • May 27, 2008
    I don't like zombies
  • April 7, 2008
    GOD AWFUL. This movie was probably the most boring film I've ever seen. When the zombies finally did climb out of their lake/swimming pool, they would lay on people and suck their necks. One of those films that sucks so bad it isn't funny, it just sucks. I'd only recommend it...( read more) to someone who wants to see every water based zombie film.

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