In the year of our Lord 2025, theNazi Zombie subgenreis anything but untapped.
Entries were few and far between for the longest time.
Meanwhile, the ’60s sought to thaw refrigerated soldiers in 1966’sThe Frozen Dead.
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1968 saw bloodshed and tombstones become hallmarks of the genre with the game-changingNight of the Living Dead.
Nothing would ever be the same for zombies… for the most part.
‘Shock Waves’ is One of the First Nazi Zombie Movies
This is whereShock Wavescomes into play.
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That said, he had the original to go off of.
That, he did not.
Is that necessarily a bad thing, though?
I’m going to need you to quickly wipe all of those preconceptions from your mind.
Instead, come to the table with more of that old-school voodoo zombie mindset.
That’s right we’re talking ’30s and ’40s chillers likeWhite ZombieandI Walked With a Zombie.
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Ready to get your brain eaten?
Now, by the time it was released, Cushing was two months hot off ofStar Wars.
Honestly, Cushing’s work could have been shot in two days.
There’s no way of knowing, buthe does deliver an air of class, as always.
Shock Wavesisn’t the zombie movie we’ve come to know, but it doesn’t need to be.
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