The directors of ZOMBIE NIGHT and AWAKENING attempt to complete their undead trilogy in the midst of a real zombie apocalypse in REEL ZOMBIES.


its skewering of the increasingly tired zombie genre.


The Synapse DVD provides a clean video image and a Dolby Digital 2.0 audio track. Extras in- clude a fun 40m or so of outtakes and deleted scenes, a trailer and a genial commentary track with Masters, Francis and producer Stephen Papadimitriou.


SHOCK WAVES


1977, Blue Underground, 84m 40s, $19.98, BD By Chris Herzog


When a tourist yacht captained by cantankerous John Carradine runs into trouble near an isolated Caribbean island, passengers and crew—including Brooke Adams


(INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS) and Luke Halpin


(FLIPPER)—must contend with fugitive Nazi scientist Peter Cushing (in a rare American film appearance) and a platoon of Third Reich zombies who are as deadly underwater as they are on dry land. Writer/director Ken Wiederhorn’s SHOCK WAVES is still struggling to attain the high- profile cult status that it richly deserves, despite its lean, pulp-ish storytelling, Romero-esque feel and often striking imagery. Make- up designer Alan Ormsby’s be- goggled, SS-uniformed zombies should be icons of ’70s horror cin- ema by now, but despite a profit- able run at the box office and on television, the picture never devel- oped a significant fan following. While the film has the low-bud- get grit and minor key electronic score of the American and Italian zombie films which would hit the


Peter Cushing makes a rare US film appearance as a renegade Nazi scientist in Ken Wiederhorn’s SHOCK WAVES.


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