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Title: Zombie Lake (2001) |
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Review of Zombie Lake
- The most terrifying zombie massacre ever to come to the screen! In a small lakeside town in the French countryside, young women are disappearing without a trace. The superstitious locals blame "The Lake of Ghosts," but the town's mayor (Howard Vernon) seems reluctant, or powerless, to take any action. When another girl is found with her throat ripped out, a Paris reporter begins to uncover the deadly secrets of the lake and the dead, green-faced Nazis who are aroused to action!
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- Posted on 2008-04-21
I love this movie
Someone had really taken the time to think this through and create synergies out of pure concepts ...
For example, in the opening scene, you have:
1). a beautiful scenery in a late afternoon.
2). a beautiful lake in France, ducks swimming.
3). a beautiful natural looking girl in her early 20's with no makeup, natural long hair and long legs with a pair of short walking down the woods, she is careful in stepping around the logs so she doesn't fall down and gets hurt.
4). Mixed this up with a studio musician showing off his/her beautiful jazz keyboard phrasing in a double octave style of Antonio Carlos Jobim against a slow walking base line ...
and you have a synergy that creates value for the viewer.
Even in the very opening scene where you only see the pond and the duck, with nothing else, by mixing the beautiful jazz keyboard with an orchestra in the back (or may be some fancy synthesizer); it signals to you something beautiful is about to happen; then the movie follows with a beautiful girl coming to your company, she is careful that she doesn't get hurt dripping down the woods, she could be your daughter, your lover etc.
And if that doesn't doing it for you, she also takes off her cloth ...
This is American for you, they really know how to make a movie. Note: she doesn't just takes off your cloth, she looks around and make sure no body is around first ...
Whether you are a young lad looking for a lover or a young father with a loving daughter, you will relate to the story very well.
Score: 5
- Posted on 2007-12-16
So bad on so many levels
Saw this movie over the weekend and had to write a review before other people made the same mistake I did.
Firstly, this only gets 2 stars from me because of the nudity; other than that the movie is simply laughable.
The special effects are horrible. The acting is something you'd expect from foreign films made in the 80's. The make-up is a bloody joke! The "zombies" are nothing more than guys in Incredible Hulk-colored make-up wearing something that's supposed to be a Nazi uniform. (in one scene, an underwater zombie has an eyeball painted over his closed eyelid; guess the actor couldn't open his eyes in a tank-as opposed to a lake, where the scene was supposed to have been) The zombies attacking people are pathetic too as the zombie is clearly "spitting" on their victim; emptying his mouth of blood-stuff on the victim's neck and smearing it around with his lips (some good editing might have fixed this problem).
The storyline is a little flacid too, especially when you consider the movie being made in the 80's and the Nazi's being around in the 40's. How long ago what the film supposed to have taken place? Says "present day" in the film, so I assume it was the 80's; all the other information proves that. I must have missed something.
I fast-forwarded a lot of the movie. And I only got it because I thought it was a movie I saw as a kid that freaked me out. It certainly was not.
[...] For what we've got in movies today, this is NOT worthy of a buy.
Score: 2
- Posted on 2007-04-22
Some movies should not have made it past VHS.
I rented this flick cause at the time it had 2 and a half stars. Wow was I horribly mislead. Some have said this is so bad it's funny. However unless your high...very high, I don't think you'll find the humor in it. Sure it has lots of attractive naked women, but the quality is so poor I can't even recommend it for that. Your better off surfing the net for porn. The sound effects were so bad, were talking sounds of someone splashing around in the bathtub for the lake scenes. There is no gore, infact the closest they come to it is a splash of `blood' on a victims neck. It's boring, drawn out, and really the only positive thing I can take from this film, is the hope that I will spare some of you the wasted time and money.
Score: 1
- Posted on 2006-10-09
bizzare, nazi zombie love story
if you havent seen zombie lake, but have heard of it, then your probably aware of its reputation as the worst zombie movie ever made. i will admit that this is probably one of the worst movies i have ever seen, but i think people are way to harsh on this film. the movie is about nazi zombies attacking skinny dippers in a lake somewhere in france. theres some weird side story involving one of the zombies and his daughter, but i am not going to get into all that. the zombies themselves look really cool in my opinion. their bright neon grren skin is pretty cool looking in my opinion. they look very menacing rising out of the lake. speaking of the lake, the underwater scenes were were obviously shot in someones pool. you can even see under water lights. although the zombie makeup is good, thats the only good thing about the special effects, wich are limited to zombies spitting very fake looking blood on their victims neck. horrific acting, cheesy war flashbacks and bad special effects dont stop this from being a very entertaining zombie romp. theres one thing i forgot and thats the T and the A wich there is plenty of, wether its very revealing under water crotch shots or jiggling breasts, zombie lake is packed with gratuitouse female nudity. please give this film a chance! it has become one of my favorites and you may enjoy it just as much as i do.
Score: 5 - Posted on 2006-07-07
NO Swimming!!!!
Its been a while since I seen a crapfest such as this. From the start it was clear that I was going to despise the flick, although the full frontal nudity in the beginning was'nt half-bad. WHy anyone, especially a female, would want to skinny dip alone in a old secluded lake is beyond me, but we get alot of that here. In fact,ther's one sequence where a group of seven girls, just finish a basketball gameand decide to get fully naked and take a dip in the lake. Although this was supposedly set in the 50s it was clearly made in the 80s, and I guess bathing suits weren't a necessity back then. The story revolves around a town that's plagued by rumors of missing people around the 'lake of the damned' a name dubbed after a number of German soldiers were massacred and thrown into the lake.The story behind the lake goes back to the timesof the inquisition where the lake was once thought to be a place of sacrafice to please the gods, and without one, they will rise from the depths of the lkae wrecking all sorts of havoc. This leads to our dead Nazi rising from the lake and doing harm to anyone who decides to trespass; apparently they weren't properly sacraficed. There a 20 minute sequence explaining everything, or more specifically, showing us what happened since there's little to no dialogue throughout the entire sequence. In fact, there are many scenes in the movie that have no dialogue, which probably would'nt have done the movie much good anyway, especially with its incredibly slow pacing. There are even some scenes that last entirely too long, while others are just poinless. Whether it was intentional or not,there a funny scene involving a zombie returning home to greet his daughter(who wasn't born when he died),giving viewers what we want while watching a zombie film -- faimly bonding and much needed dramatic pauses. Speaking of dumb zombies, the basic make-up is green -- yes there are no huge gashes, or clearly rotted flesh, but instead we have zombies that are just a little too moldy . On the plus side, there is a decent part in the film where the zombies decide to run amok in the town, although you wouldn't know it since it was way too damn dark to see what was going on, which was another continuing occurrence thoughout the film. You hardly guess this was a zombie movie since there was zero gore. Thats 90 minutes of my life I will not get back. I've seen some pretty bad zombie flicks in my years and this is another one to add to that list.The only thing that made it watchable was all the excessive nudity, but even then it was barely worth anyone's time. Avoid at all cost!!
Score: 1