Low budget and I mean low budget horror film from France, which follows a similar story of Nazi zombies!
German soldiers killed by partisans in an ambush during the second world war are dumped in the local lake, which we find out later has a dark secret regarding witchcraft ad has the name, "lake of the dammed".
Ten years later a woman goes missing after swimming in the lake, to which we find the lake has somehow turned the dead German soldiers into zombies and thus the village locals are scared the dead Germans are out for revenge.
There is also a subplot where one of the German undead finds his daughter he had with a local who nursed him during the war when he was wounded. Instead of being a blood thirty monster like the rest if his unit, he can realise this is his daughter. Though this leads to the mayor using the daughter's relationship with her dead father to get rid of the dead which leads them to burning the crap out of all of them with flamethrowers in a mill!
Zombie Lake will not please a lot of hardcore horror fans and may find it slightly slow and boring. Jess Franco was originally lined up to direct and had apparently worked on some of the plot but fell out with the film's distributor over the budget of the film.
Jean Rollin was then asked to direct not long before they went to film Zombie Lake.
Rollin would later go on to say if he knew how bad the script was, he would not have done it. He also stated he did it as a favour to a friend.
Where Rollin, I would say was fairly decent at making a film with now much money, this does not really suit his style of filming making and I suppose he did not have time or was given any chance to have some input on the script. If you want a good Rollin zombie-esque film, Grapes of Death is some fine Rollin goodness!
I thought the film was ok, mean it probably needed some more padding out with the script and think if Rolling had the chance to change parts and a bit more money to the budget it may have been better, though what we do have is decent enough to watch and have a laugh at.
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