USA, 1977
90m
35mm film, colour, mono, English
An American horror film directed by Ken Wiederhorn.
Plot Summary
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht collides with a strange old ship apparently adrift in the Caribbean. Ashore, they meet a strange hermit with dark secrets and are soon being menaced by a platoon of Nazi zombie soldiers.
Credits
Crew
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
Zopix Company
Producer: Reuben Trane
Production Manager: Doug Kauffman
Unit Manager: Wayne Hood
Script: John Kent Harrison, Ken Wiederhorn
Assistant Director: George Berndt
Underwater Photography: Irving Pare
Stills: Fred Olen Ray
Editor: Norman Gay
Music: Richard Einhorn
Sound Recordist: Stephen Manners
Special Make Up Designer: Alan Ormsby
Production Designer: Jessica Sack
Property Master: Mykle Mattes
Cast
Clarence Thomas (fisherman)
Brooke Adams (Rose)
Luke Halpin (Keith)
John Carradine (Captain Ben)
Jack Davidson (Norman)
D.J. Sidney (Beverly)
Fred Buch (Chuck)
Don Stout (Dobbs)
Peter Cushing (SS Commander)
Sammy Graham
Preston White
Reid Finger
Mike Kennedy
Tony Moskal, Jay Maeder, Bob White, Talmadge Scott, Robert Miller (zombies)
Donahue Guillory
Gary J. Levinson
Alternative Titles
Almost Human – UK theatrical title
Death Corps
L'occhio nel triangolo – Italian title
Die Schreckensmacht der Zombies – German video title
Shock Waves – Die aus der Tiefe kamen – German title
Syvyyksien tappajat – Finnish title
Terror en las aguas – Spanish title
Links
See also
Le Lac des morts vivants (1980)
References
Books
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.163, 277, 278, 317
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.396
- John Carradine: The Films by Tom Weaver – article
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.352
- Horror Films by Subgenre: A Viewer's Guide by Chris Vander Kaay and Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay p.122
- Horror Films of the 1970s by John Kenneth Muir pp.70-72 – credits, synopsis, review
- Nightmare USA by Stephen Thrower p.516 – note
- Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990 by Brian Albright p.200
- Unsung Horrors by Eric McNaughton & Darrell Buxton (eds) pp.162-163 – illustrated review (by Ian Taylor)
- The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by Peter Dendle p.159-161
