Movie Details
| Title: | Shock Waves | |
| Director: | Ken Wiederhorn | |
| Year: | 1977 | |
| Genre: | Zombie | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.21.06 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (0)
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.21.06 | Terror Thursday | Instead of staying for a midnight feature, I felt loyalist toward the downtown theater so I went over to see this movie, which has the distinction of being the first official Weird Wednesday selection. It's about underwater albino nazi zombies... I'm not sure you can pack more intrigue and excitement into four words... After Zack's hilarious intro and a Weekend at Bernie's tarailer though, we all got to find out the ugly truth about this movie. This is a long 90 minutes. It's like the director saw Carnival of Souls, loved that one shot of all the ghosts coming out of the great salt lake to do the waltz of the dead, and decided to make an entire movie out of that one shot. These albino nazi zombies... it's really all they do is rise up from water and sink back down into water. When it's time for someone to die, a UANZ will rise up, grab them, then sink back down. Their one weakness seems to be taking off their goggles... maybe they all wear contacts so without goggles they can't open their eyes underwater... or maybe it's the harsh UV rays of the sunlight... either way, taking off their goggles makes them stumble around and sometimes die. Unless you do that though, it's a whole lot of rising up out of water and sinking back down into it. and that's the best part of the movie. The rest, with small roles by John Carridine and Peter Cushing, is basically watching people walk around. One guy is kinda funny because he has these bags he's pre-occupied with but mostly all of the victims meld together, except for the girl which IMDb tells me I recognize from the 78 Body Snatchers remake. ahh, that's right. So now I can say I've seen this... although most of the fun from the screening is talking afterward with David's kooky anecdotes and Sonja's redhead horror-loving. Ok it's bed time... day two awaits! |
