Review – Shock Waves

Underwater zombie SS stormtroopers? How the hell did they ever manage to make a bore-fest out of a concept like that? And yet they do. The cast certainly isn’t to blame. A young Brooke Adams joins veteran thespians Peter Cushing and John Carradine in a valiant attempt to do what they can with a genuinely dreadful script. A handful of folks out for a Caribbean pleasure cruise end up stranded on an island inhabited by an old German guy and a squad of undead Nazi super-soldiers. Every once in awhile the picture will muster a good visual or two, such as when the zombies first emerge from their watery resting places. Otherwise it’s a muddled, meandering mess. The nicest thing I have to say about it is that on recent re-viewing I found it somewhat less boring than the first time I saw it. Maybe it was just that I knew what to expect so I felt less let down when it sucked. Mildly amusing