Le lac des morts vivants / Озеро зомби / Zombie Lake / El lago de los muertos vivientes / The Lake of the Living Dead (1981) DVDRip |
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Рядом с небольшой деревушкой расположено озеро, где местные жители никому не порекомендовали бы купаться. Однако, как это обычно и бывает, молодая девушка, проигнорировав рекомндации, идет купаться на озеро, и на нее нападает зомби, одетый в нацистскую форму и с зеленым лицом. Дальше - больше... Зомби-наци не удовлетворяются лишь случайными жертвами, забредающими к ним на пикничок, и поэтому выходят из озера в поисках новых жертв...
Zombie Lake presents us with a quiet, picturesque village in rural France during the 1950s that has been hiding a dirty secret – a secret that is about to come back and, quite literally, bite it. You see, during World War II some of the townsfolk, working with the French resistance, ambushed a squadron of German soldiers and dumped their bodies in the local lake to avoid detection, but now, years later, the slaughtered Nazis have emerged from their watery grave as flesh hungry zombies intent on revenge, and naked women and cheaply attired French gentleman are doomed to pay the price!..
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As a filmmaker, Jean Rollin - along with other Euro luminaries such as Jess Franco and Joe D'amato - is something of an enigma. Every now and then he produces outstanding efforts like The Living Dead Girl and Fascination, but mostly he churns out complete and utter crap. Given the scattershot nature of his output over the years, I don't know if Rollin is a talented director whose efforts are hampered by external factors when he is bad, or a complete hack who manages to blindly fluke a bullseye when he is good. Who knows… the truth probably lies somewhere in between. At any rate, Rollin definitely didn't fluke a bullseye with Zombie Lake. In fact, his dart went sailing into the abyss and has not been seen since...
Did I get your attention? Good, because this one is something else. Directed by the usually reliable Jean Rollin, Zombie Lake walks the line of so-bad-it's-good until luckily devolving to a glorious stew of smut and ineptitude. If you're one to scoff at bad make-up, awful dubbing, or absolutely gratuitous nudity, i'd probably suggest giving this one a pass. For everyone else, this should provide some seriously goofy entertainment.
A small French village starts to experience mysterious murders (mostly of women in various states of undress, including a full (frontal) female volleyball team(!)) that are being caused by some mostly-green fellows that have been rising from the nearby lake. Apparently during World War II some resistance fighters killed a group of Nazis and dumped their bodies in the water, and now they are rising from their graves to take a little revenge. But that's not all! So, before getting shot-up by the townspeople, one of the Nazis slept with a female villager who ended up having his child before passing away. This zombie-Nazi pays a few visits to his now grown daughter, who doesn't seem to have any problems hanging out with a damp, green, dead guy. The mayor (played by the late Howard Vernon) cooks up a scheme where the young girl lures the lumbering squad into a local mill, where the rest of the town burns them up with a flamethrower. Huzzah.
It's difficult to focus on what aspect of the production is most incompetent. The dubbing is pitiful, with the actors seemingly making up dialogue on the spot as they constantly contradict each other or spew nonsense. The zombie make-up is laughable, and most of the zombies have large flesh colored patches where it has either washed off or was never applied. Most attacks in the film consist of a badly made-up actor nuzzling against an actresses neck, letting fake blood fall out of his mouth. Embarrassing stuff, particularly in one scene where a solider gets shot in the eye and a very visible pipe feeds blood through his sleeve. But, my own favorite bits are whenever they show the zombies from beneath the water. While above the lake appears dirty and covered with various wildlife, from below it's incredibly clear. So clear, in fact, that you can see the tarp set up in the background to hide the fact that the whole thing was shot in a swimming pool. You can even see vents at the edges of the screen! This sort of egregious error (and it's consistent throughout the film) just adds to the fun.
Jean Rollin (Living Dead Girl, Lips Of Blood) is actually a very capable director and is obviously slumming it here in conjunction with the infamous Jess Franco (who wrote the script). Rollin uses a pseudonym as director (though he also acts, credited, in the film) which implies he knew the results were less than inspiring. There are a few moments (particularly in the WWII flashback scenes) where his talents show through, but this is definitely something to leave off the resume. He is able to keep the pace moving quite rapidly (the film doesn't even run 90 minutes), and is sure to fill the screen with plenty of nubile flesh when things slow down. Информация о фильме:
Название: Озеро зомби Оригинальное название: Le lac des morts vivants Год выхода: 1981 Жанр: ужасы, война Режиссер / Director: Сценарий / Writers: Julián Esteban (story), Jesus Franco (writer) Оператор / Cinematography by: Max Monteillet Original Music by: Daniel White В ролях / Cast: Howard Vernon, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Anouchka, Antonio Mayans, Nadine Pascal, Youri Radionow, Burt Altman, Gilda Arancio, Marcia Sharif, Yvonne Dany, Jean Rene Bleu, Jean Rollin, Edmond Besnard, René Douglas, Julián Esteban, Alain Petit, Jean Roville, Claude Sendron... Выпущено / Country: France, Spain
Производство / Company: Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (P.A.C.) Продолжительность / Runtime: 01:23:17 Язык / Language: English Перевод / Translation: любительский одноголосый Параметры рипа:
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