Shock Waves with Peter Cushing: DVD Cover

    Shock Waves
    a.k.a. Almost Human, Death Corps Director: Ken Wiederhorn Cast: Peter Cushing, Brooke Adams, John Carradine, Fred Buch

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    • DVD Release Date: 09/30/2003
    • Original Release: 1977
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 26,685

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    Audio commentary with co-writer/director Ken Wiederhorn, make-up designer Alan Ormsby and filmmaker Fred Olen Ray; From Flipper to Shock Waves: An Interview with Luke Halpin; Theatrical trailer; TV spot; Radio spots; Poster, still, & production art gallery

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Program Start/Introduction [1:03]
    2. Main Titles [:53]
    3. Sole Survivor [3:21]
    4. Captain Ben [3:37]
    5. Nervous Passengers [5:54]
    6. Nightwatch [5:34]
    7. Island of Fear [4:26]
    8. Jungle Sanctuary [4:12]
    9. Trespassers [5:49]
    10. Scarface [2:47]
    11. The Death Corps Awaken [4:05]
    12. "There Is Danger in the Water" [3:52]
    13. Remnants of the Reich [4:16]
    14. Super Soldiers [2:56]
    15. Death from Below [4:38]
    16. Overboard [4:21]
    17. Onslaught [2:59]
    18. Safehouse [3:52]
    19. Panic Attack [2:58]
    20. No Escape [3:31]
    21. Zombies on the Prowl [3:32]
    22. Lifeboat [4:55]
    23. End Credits [:53]

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    This horror film concerns a shipwrecked yachting party. Rose (Brooke Adams) and her fellow yacht-mates, including the captain (John Carradine) run aground on an island when they hit an odd-looking freighter. Once beached, they meet up with an aging SS Commander (Peter Cushing) who had been in charge of a crew of zombies. This is not meant as a comment on the quality of the men under him, they were "real" zombies. Since the zombies were taken from the ranks of murderers and other miscreants, they were not activated and the SS Commander sunk them with his submarine. Now they are rising up from the depths to create mayhem among the stranded members of the yachting party. Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

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    Shock Wavesby Anonymous

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    July 29, 2008: A Cult Classic, and one that gave me the creeps! Based on the general Nazi/Aryan Super Soldier Occult beliefs, and taking it a step over the edge! A movie I can enjoy more than once. Some good frights, a memorable performance by Brooke Adams and the great Peter Cushing. A low budget movie more frightening than the multi-million dollar productions made today...

    Shock Wavesby Anonymous

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    August 05, 2004: A friend of mine recommended the movie 'Shock Waves' to me. Evidently, it was his father's favorite film, and his father watched it over and over and over again. I was intrigued at the notion that there was someone in America who received great solace and comfort from watching an obscure Nazi-zombie-castaway film from the seventies that no one else had heard of, so I searched in vain to obtain a copy of this film (Thank you Barnes and Noble for carrying this title and making it more widely available!) Boy, was I not disappointed when I watched this film! This film is a hidden gem in American cinematography. It was made on a budget of $50,000 in the early 1970s (according to the director's commentary on the DVD), and it is probably the creepiest Nazi-zombie flick I have ever seen (granted, I haven't seen that many Nazi-zombie flicks in my lifetime, but that is beside the point). The acting is first-rate, although everything else about this film is total cheese worthy of rebuke and ridicule by the fine folks at Mystery Science Theater 3000. Peter Cushing has an incredible acting performance in this film in the role of the creepy Nazi, a role he also played with great success as Governor Tarkin on the Death Star of 'Star Wars'. If you are into cheesy Nazi-zombie films where innocent idiots get stranded on an island with runaway Nazi eugenics experiments, then this is your film!