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Director:
Writers:
John Kent Harrison (writer)
Ken Pare (writer)
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Release Date:
15 July 1977 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Once They Were Almost Human! Beneath the living... Beyond the dead... From the depths of Hell's Ocean! The Deep End of Horror!
Plot:
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers. full summary | add synopsis
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(7 articles)
‘Fear Clinic’ Premieres, How About a DVD Giveaway?
 (From Tubefilter News. 26 October 2009, 3:12 PM, PDT)

Back Catalogue #4: Vci Entertainment
 (From Fangoria. 26 October 2009, 4:34 AM, PDT)

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Left me with haunting memories, even 10 yrs. later more (72 total)

Cast

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Peter Cushing ... SS Commander

Brooke Adams ... Rose
Fred Buch ... Chuck
Jack Davidson ... Norman
Luke Halpin ... Keith
D.J. Sidney ... Beverly
Don Stout ... Dobbs
John Carradine ... Captain
Clarence Thomas ... Fisherman
Sammy Graham
Preston White
Reid Finger
Mike Kennedy
Donahue Guillory
Jay Maeder ... Zombie
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Almost Human (UK)
Death Corps
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Runtime:
85 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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The hotel in the film is an actual Biltmore hotel in Florida that was shut down for a two year period and abandoned at the time of filming and the director paid $250 to rent the building for the shoot. The hotel was renovated a couple of years after the shoot and now charges significantly more than $250 per room, per night. more
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Revealing mistakes: When the cook's body is retrieved from the lake, a split second before the scene change, you actually see the actor that plays the cook start to lift his head up. This mistake is more apparent in the VHS version, though the DVD has part of it as well. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Terror i Rock 'n' Roll Önsjön (2001) (V) more

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Left me with haunting memories, even 10 yrs. later, 20 September 1999
Author: JOE-397 (jackson357@excite.com) from DENVER, COLORADO

Real movie summary: A U-boat with WW2 Nazi soldiers, killed and brought back to life to fight as "un-killable", is ship-wrecked on a Caribbean island. 30 yrs later, a "hire-boat" is also shipwrecked there. The Nazi commander of the unit, Cushing, is the only "survivor" on the island. BUT, the "Zombie un-killables" come back to do what they were experimentally used to do in battle ... kill without thought or feeling... uncontrollably... The movie has numerous images that stay with you long after the movie is over, and a musical background in the beginning which was very haunting. Good acting, a believable script, and nice film shooting, round it out to make it a memorable classic. I've had a really tough time locating the film at any video store. Good luck finding it!

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