| View Larger Image | Zombie Lake | DVDStarring: Burt Altman, Anouchka, Gilda Arancio, Edmond Besnard, Jean Rene Bleu
| List Price: | $9.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 90 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Image Entertainment | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.66:1 | | Release Date: | March 27, 2001 | | Sales Rank: | 31,565st |
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Description
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! |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 46 reviews)
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Greatest "Horrible Zombie Movie" ever by Seth Death (Panama City, FL)  2 Stars
June 08, 2009
This movie is so ridiculously bad it actually hurt to watch it. It hurt my sides, because I was laughing so hard. I admit that I bought this movie for two reasons; The gratuitous nudity and I collect horrible zombie movies. I recommend buying this movie (it's cheap) and getting together with about 10 of your closest friends. Then go out and purchase a keg of bud light. When the keg is roughly half gone put this movie in and let the good times roll. That's what I did and it was awesome.
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It sucks by M. Ryan Fairbanks (Cleveland, Ohio)  1 Stars
April 07, 2009
I guess it's worth mentioning that I've sat through more than my fair share of bottom shelf zombie movies, and that I have even enjoyed some of them. Oasis of the Zombies, Hell of the Living Dead, The Zombie Pack Volume one in it's enirity (yikes), I'm no stranger to stuff like this. However if you are among the brave few who have dared to pop this p.o.s into your DVD player, you know that this is a true force to be reckoned with.
Initially I had every intention of watching Zombie Lake start to finish, half-heartedly trying to convince myself that even though it was horrible it was still worth it for a laugh or two. I got about forty minutes into the movie when suddenly I changed my mind. I pictured myself in the distant future: An old man on his death bed, straining just to take a breathe. I glance around at the faces of my family, willing to give anything just to be granted another hour to spend with them on earth. Feeling the onset of tears as I realize that I wasted more than an hour of life watching complete garbage such as Zombie Lake, and that time will never be given back to me. I promptly ejected the disc, whipped it right into the waste basket, and went to visit my grandmother.
In truth, I should be thankful for Zombie Lake, it was a real wake up call. I would say purchase it in hopes that you may encounter a similar experience, but since I can't make any guarantees you probably shouldn't. Zombie Lake is simply the worst of the worst, no more really needs to be said, other than that the master prints should be destroyed.
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Rollin makes a Nazi Zombie movie-- how good could it possibly be? by Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH) 1 Stars
March 30, 2009
Zombie Lake (Jean Rollin, 1981)
In the seventies and early eighties, one could not have a genre but that Jean Rollin had to contribute something to it, bringing his own special blend of the absurd, allegedly erotic, and silly to the table. Zombie Lake is Rollin's take on the Nazi Zombie subgenre. While it certainly hits new heights (even for Rollin) of absurd and silly, "allegedly" is the best word to describe the eros factor.
So anyway, there's a lake, and it's full of zombies, as we find out in the opening scene, when some chick decides to go swimming and gets munched. (As that's the extent of her role in the film, there's not much else to say about her.) Her boyfriend heads into town looking for her, and, of course, here comes the horror movie trope of the crazy old man warning him about the creepy crawlies whilst everyone else tells him to shut up. Also, coincidentally, a reporter is in town looking to do a story on this mysterious lake. So, yeah, everyone seems to know about the mysterious lake except the munching victim's boyfriend. Then along comes a womens' soccer team who like to get naked and swim. Now, while all this is going on, there's also a touching zombie father - human daughter reunion. Folks, you can't make this stuff up unless you're Jean Rollin.
I'm not one to disparage Rollin's films simply because he made them; some of his output over the years was quite enjoyable. This is not one of those movies. Rollin, who spent most of his horror career doing erotic vampire tales, subscribes to the belief that zombies look best when the makeup used to determine who's a zombie and who isn't consists of some green foundation and dark circles under the eyes. (Which doesn't look that much different from some of the members of the women's soccer team...) If there's a zombie movie cliché, it's in here somewhere, and then there's that whole girl-befriends-zombie subplot that's so far beyond ridiculous I'm not even sure where to classify it. An absolutely ludicrous piece of filmmaking from start to finish; watch Shock Waves for the umpteenth time instead if you're craving Nazi Zombie goodness (and don't we all, now and then?) (half)
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should have listened to others and not wasted my money by Jeffrey M. Sible (hopwood pa. usa) 2 Stars
January 28, 2009
horrible movie, i gave it two stars for the great girl nudity in the film, of course if that's all i cared about i would have bought porno, the movie is just plain stupid, fake, the storyline was dumb, the music was really lame, cannot recommend this movie to anyone unless there is an actress you want to see in it for just about all of them seem to show something, will never watch again, i rate this movie with the other horrible ones i've bought recently, dead meat, city of the living dead as the worst zombie movies ever made, and i even liked children of the living dead and day of the dead 2, so i know im not being too hard on these movies, i just don't see the point of making movies this bad, what is the point, next time i start looking for horror movies i've never seen to satisfy me i will start being smarter in my choices for sure........
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not as bad as by Michael P. Dobey (colorado springs)  3 Stars
September 02, 2008
This movie is not as bad as many fo the no budget made to video on video tape movies that you see in the video stores. It's supposed to be taking place in the 1950's but it's hard to tell because the clothes and cars are from 1980 the year this movie was made. It was made on a shoestring budget and it's a bad movie but if you like bad horror movies and many of them are , then this isn't the worst movie of all time. I believe it was directed by jean rollin who is a french director under a different name. This is a FRENCH HORROR MOVIE not a italian one.
He makes alot of french horror films that usually feature vampires. Jean did the best he had with no budget and it does however have the great late howard vernon in this movie. He graced many a low budget horror flick and whatever he's in he adds his classy presence at least. I personally thought the zombie father reuniting with his daughter added pathos to the movie and made it a little better flick than if that scene wasn't in the movie. I don't think that we should be overly critical of lowbudget horror movies after all we live in a time where lowlife rappers are held up as talented. If you want to see a good jean rollins movie watch the Grapes of death or Fascination. Jean rollins always likes to add nudity to his movies and that's in this movie in abundance. Because the europeons are ages ahead of us in tolerance of nudity it was no big deal to have nudity in a zombie movie in 1980. This is one of three movies in which zombie nazi's attack people and this one was influenced by the much better shockwave from 1976 and was contemporary with the lower budget Oasis of the zombies. Making this a loosely related trilogy , and that if you cut it some slack is enjoyable for what it is: a very low budget nazi zombie in the lake movie.
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