10 Horror Movies With Nazi Villains

7. Shock Waves

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One of the earliest and most entertaining examples of the Nazi zombie subgenre, Shock Waves is at heart a good old-fashioned B movie about a bunch of innocents trapped on an island with a mad scientist.

Peter Cushing plays the scientist and it’s hard to imagine a less reassuring host than his disfigured former SS Commander, dubious accent and all. Needless to say, it’s not long before the dead rise from the ocean, but these zombies are as far removed from George Romero’s flesh eaters as it’s possible to get. Clad in Nazi uniforms and black goggles, these guys don’t shuffle after their victims, they run, kick down doors and smash through windows.

It turns out that Cushing was in charge of the German army’s “Death Corps”, a group of aquatic zombies created to win the war….somehow. Now they’ve returned for their former commander and refuse to accept his commands, leaving him in charge of a group desperate to escape the island.

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'