Man, I tried hard to find something about this film that I liked. Reason being I vaguely remember watching it when I was a kid and being freaked out. Oh well, that was then, this is now! The film starts out promisingly enough, with a great intro about the 'death corps' and a girl gets rescued after floating at sea in a dinghy. Things pretty much go downhill from here! A series of slow moving, disappointing sequences follows, as the annoying characters are shipwrecked and are picked of one by one by the death corps (who must have an amazing laundry person as their SS uniforms look in great nick after more than 30 years underwater!). The deaths are quite anticlimactic. If these were scarier, gorier or more inventive the film would definitely benefit! I thought the concept of the film was wasted. One only wonders what this film could have been with a better script, better action sequences and better direction! Peter Cushing and John Carradine do their best to carry the film, putting in OK performances as the reclusive SS commander and the grizzled old sea captain. But even these two mighty thespians are unable to rescue this shipwreck of a movie.
Review of Shock Waves
