"Zombie Lake" is a tedious film with nothing much going for it aside from the ridiculousness of its central premise. It's about a lake... with zombies. Zombies come from the lake. They come out of the lake at night time and kill people. And what's more... they're Nazis. Nazi zombies that live in a lake. Got it? Good.The silliness doesn't stop there, as the movie is filled with revealing mistakes such as crew members wandering around, visible equipment, reflections of cameras in windows. And remember the lake? The "zombie" lake? Well, the movie features many underwater shots that are obviously actually filmed in a swimming pool. You can see the concrete wall of the pool in some shots, and even the reflection of an "exit" sign.The actors playing zombies seem to spend quite a bit of time underwater, and perhaps disliked being wet all the time, which may explain why they are completely dry in shots when we have just seen them come out of the water. Did Nazi uniforms contain self-drying mechanisms like the futuristic jacket Marty McFly wears in "Back to the Future 2"?

There are so many things wrong with this trash that throwing an entire thesaurus of negativity at it still wouldn't come close to describing how painfully slow and terrible this is. Basically, (by way of a flashback story), a bunch of Nazis are killed by the French resistance in world war 2 and their bodies are disposed of in a nearby lake. Roll credits please. Anyway for no other reason apart from a pathetic script, these deceased soldiers are now zombies because of, oh who knows why, let's just say why the hell not and save on logic. These zombies decide to come to life several years or maybe decades later with green face paint, still brand new looking uniforms, ridiculous expressions and they start to take their revenge on some travelling female sports team who decide to get naked and go frolicking in the titular lake. So queue the back up team left over from Shock Waves to suddenly surface at this point and pull the naked screaming girls to a watery grave. Somehow and seemingly much, much later, all these dead dudes are corralled in a warehouse or mill of some kind, it's burnt to the ground by local townspeople, take bath with toaster, kill self, the end!I could make random guesses on why this got made, voodoo, gypsy curse maybe, director caught sleeping with boss' wife, who knows; maybe when this crap was being made they were attempting some kind of weird zombie/porn crossover cult film and failed dismally. Even with all the naked underwater shots and inappropriate zombie gropings going on, nothing except fire, lots and lots of heaven sent holy fire can save us from this.....whatever this is. If you really want to punish yourself then watch this. If you really hate somebody at work, it becomes the perfect secret Santa gift.

In World War II, in a small village in France vanquished by the German army, a local woman has a love affair with one soldier and they have a daughter, Helena. One day, the German soldiers are ambushed and killed by the French Resistance and their bodies are thrown into a lake.Ten years later, the soldiers become an army of undead attacking the locals. The Mayor, who was part of the resistance, organizes a posse with a flamethrower, to destroy the living dead, and uses the girl Helena to help them."Le Lac des Morts Vivants" is another hilarious low-budget horror-trash by Eurocine from the 70's and 80's recently released in Brazil on DVD with attractive cover. Everything is absurd in this film, from the story and screenplay to the direction, acting, make-up and cinematography (the exception are the underwater scenes); but controversially I have enjoyed and had lots of fun watching this trash. Although not responsible for the direction, the touch of Jesus Franco is visible. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "O Lago dos Zumbis" ("The Zombie's Lake")

***SPOILERS!*** - Jean Rollin's "Le Lac Des Morts Vivants" aka. "Zombie Lake" must be arguably THE most ridiculous Zombie flick ever (I haven't seen Jess Franco's "Oasis Of The Zombies", which is said to be about equal, so far), which is quite something regarding all the trashy Romero and Fulci wannabes and the tons of rip-offs out there. Generally speaking, I enjoy director Rollin's films every now and then and I furthermore consider myself a fan of the super-prolific exploitation icon Jess Franco who co-wrote the film. This "Zombie Lake" however, is ONLY watchable for its value as one of the crappiest things ever brought to screen. The film's incomparable awfulness, however, makes it quite fun to watch for anybody who can enjoy awful cinema.In World War 2, the local resistance of a small French village killed a bunch of Nazi soldiers and (very smartly) threw their corpses into a lake that had been known as an obscure place of black magic since ancient times. Years later, the dead Germans awake all of a sudden and come out of the lake to drink the blood of teenage girls, who come to the lake for naked swimming (in spite of signs with Skulls and Bones that say "No Swimming!"). The Nazi-Zombies must be the most ridiculously looking living dead ever - They look quite the same as they did before they were killed, only that the makeup 'artist' here painted their faces green. In the end the Zombies are defeated when a 10-year-old girl lures them into a trap with a bucket of fresh blood (it is, of course, not explained where they took the blood from). Also, it is not quite clear at what time the film is supposed to take place - technically it can't play any later than in the 50s, as the daughter of one of the German soldiers is still a little girl of 10 years at most. Then again, the teenage girls wear hot-pants and miniskirts, which wasn't too popular in the 50s. When they wear anything, that is, since basically every female character in the film has a strong tendency to non-stop exhibitionism. Much in Rollin/Franco tradition, most girls are naked for about 90 per cent of their screen time, occasionally I had my doubts that they were all legally entitled to this, as some of them looked a bit too young. The performances are entirely god-awful, and exploitation veterans Howard Vernon and Antonio Mayans are no exception to that. The story is ridiculous from the first minute to the last, and the dialogue is among the stupidest I ever heard. Even the gore-effects are crappy. Still, this is recommendable to fans of bad cinema and watchable for people with a sense of humor for its unintentional fun-factor. But be aware that, while the sleaze and immense crap-factor might amuse at times, the film gets extremely boring at times. The use of the 'Fast Forward' button does not go in hand with a guilty conscience here.