Zombie Lake - Good Bad Flicks 

The opening scene with so much abundant, graphic nudity was more riveting than the beginning of The Dark Knight. Thanks, Cecil.

Whenever my friends at university got annoyed at me, they'd call me Zombie Lake because they asked me to bring over a movie and I brought this. They weren't too pleased with my choice :)

The Orson Welles bit totally cracked me up.

The fact that they had one idea for this movie and filmed it twice is fantastic

"...the music gets happy so the girls get naked." God, I miss the 80s.

I love how when the zombie is endlessly gnawing on that woman's neck, there is VERY CLEARLY no wounds whatsoever. Like he even pulls back and the camera has a full view of her very stained but otherwise unblemished neck.

The alien gargoyle is in a church in Scotland. It’s a listed building and they actually passed the gargoyle off in planning so it is actually meant to be there

You can’t beat the comedic narration. Good bad flicks is the best.

Proud to see our most important director in horror genre on Good Bad Flicks. Even if it's for Zombie Lake.

To be fair, once you start with 'lesbian vampires' you've got half a script right there. Efficient film making.

This is a cult classic of French exploitation! Apparently, they had to film it with a defective camera that filmed at irregular speeds, so the actors had to play either a little fast or a little slow to compensate. Also, they hired local actors with very heavy local accents, making some lines of dialogue completely unintelligible to most French speakers (during the mob scene, an actor sounds like he exclaims the meaningless word "Promizoulin!", which became a cult line to French-speaking aficionados of the genre). Actor Howard Vernon, a Jess Franco regular, apparently later said that they might as well have skipped shooting this with film, and just straight-up use toilet paper in the camera instead. Now if *that's* not a resounding endorsement, I don't know what is! Great video as always, Cecil--I'm very happy you covered this one!

Now they'll never get that smell out of the fish 🤣

Given the apparent age of the soldier's daughter the movie should be set during the Fifties, yet all the characters are obviously wearing contemporary clothes.

Never a bad time for an Old Country Buffet joke.

They really missed an opportunity by not having the daughter and her zombie dad playing at a park

The girl was born during WW2 and is 10. Making it in 1950s. Yet the cheerleader bus is from the 60s or 70s

This was one of the most confusing zombie movies I have ever seen, great review!

"now they'll never get that smell out of the fish" has made my day. Thank you Cecil.

Jean Rollin's work is very loose, but perhaps because he's a professional photographer, the composition is elaborate and full of girlish tastes, so I watch it to the end. Though I fall asleep several times.

3:31 Cecil‘s right. The mayor‘s pay must be great if he can afford a personal statue of the Xenomorph from Alien by H.R. Giger himself.

The zombie with a heart of gold :) ... almost teared up

Nice touch with the music from Romer's Dawn of the Dead! That made me smile! So jaunty, perfect for zombie shoppers and diners!

The quality consistency of your videos is top notch my friend. You are easily one of my favorite youtubers for more than 7 years!

Tasty Hoots only 1 minute into the film? Sign me up!

You make such a bad movie so entertaining! Thank you for your dedication and work!

Old, low budget French, Spanish, or Italian horror films are so good, even if they’re terrible.

I first heard of this movie when the Dark Corners Reviews channel gave it their customary hilarious "review", so when I saw you had done it, I HAD to see the fun continue!

This is definitely one weird zombie film. On the one hand, it wants to be a gory and raunchy sexploitation film. And on the other hand, it wants to be a tragic tale of love, loss, and a father's love for his child from beyond the grave. Actually, I don't mind the zombie father plot point. It's surprisingly heartwarming. Like the "Nightmare Weekend" film, this film could use some proper storytelling, characterization, and editing.

This movie features a time traveling women’s sports team from the 80’s! A classic because how bazaar it is!

Transformers: even mayors love quoting them!

Great job on the review, Cecil. This must be the only film to feature a sympathetic character who is both a Nazi and a zombie. I've actually seen Oasis Of The Zombies (I remember the title), but it was so long ago, I can't remember much. I am a big fan of "Shock Waves" (1977), which also features underwater Nazi zombies.

@GoodBadFlicks: "Somebody had Taco Bell"........ HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

"Some time later...War." hahaha

The Xenomorph gargoyle. Awesome. 🤣

One thing I learned by watching this film was that WW2 ended in the early 70’s.

Oh my God. You did Zombie Lake. I went to a small college prep high school. We lived on campus, and our professors did too. They were in charge of us. On weekends they would always show a double feature movie in the auditorium. If the professor who had duty that weekend did not want to stay up and show the second movie, they would always put on Zombie Lake thinking no one would stay to watch. BUT we all came to love this terrible movie and would always stay until the end just to mess with the tired professor. There is T&A, but it is such a terrible movie it didn't matter. I think about a very simple time in life when I think about Zombie Lake.

0:45 😂😂😂😂😂 2:22 DAMN!! Not even any of the George Romeo zombie flicks go that long Cecil EWW!! Another funny installment Cecil👍👍

keep in mind that this WAS going to be a Jess Franco film at first. I'd be happy to see you review Rollin's Grapes Of Death

Awww... I want a house with a stone xenomorph.

5:30 she lost the will to live? 5:44 the mayor really says “Yes, you could call it the damned lake of the damned.”

I will say this. Growing up, and seeing the wizard video box art for these films in the horror section, I was scared s*******. The artwork is so much better than the actual films. In fact, I think I just wanted to see those films simply because I was fascinated with the box art. I eventually saw condensed versions of these two films in wizard videos zombie-thon compilation. Believe it came out about 1984 or 1985, and it had quite a few 5 to 10 minutes segments of the living Dead films. Essentially, each one was just all the really good parts of each film, whether it be the nudity or the gore.

“Clown car full of cheerleaders”. ……yeah that’s getting added to the bucket list of depravity

No joke specifically about the Xenomorph coming out of the mayor's place??? I don't know whether to be proud or disappointed! LOL

Awesome german opera reference there with the magic bullet.

"Your town is being attacked by Nazi zombies. Why didn't you call for help?" "No one would believe us." "Please this is a Franco film. Yours is the third town attacked this week."

And reminded of the movie "Shock Waves" that was shown on one of the Saturday double features in the 80's!

These regular uploads make me so happy, Cecil

Oh my god! This is one of my favorite crappy zombie movies! I even bought the DVD that works sometimes in a few DVD players. I'm just starting this vid so I can only hope you mention the pantsless zombie coming out of the lake! priceless!

Was that a xenomorph gargoyle? Pretty awesome.

Instant "like" for the Transformers joke! That had me dying!!! lol

Good timing on this video Cecil. I was just taking a break from playing the RE2 remake, and this video pops up. Watching an awesome video on a cheap-ass zombie movie, while taking a break from a zombie game. Thanks!

Greatest movie review channel. Cecil rules Pennsylvania.

A bit like Shockwaves starring Peter Cushing with the strange goggled eyed zombies coming out of the water.

OMG! Stardewv Valley shoutout! Respect!

I always wondered how the daughter was born 10 years ago, but when the zombie father came back she hadn’t aged a day

3:18 - Hey Clownface.

3:31 hmm looks like a Xenomorph to me lol Love the video man... cant wait to see you do The Gate or Highway to He Double Hockey sticks

I, remember seeing The Clam Box V.H.S. of this film in the local Video Store

Les Raisins de la Mort remains Rollin's best work in my opinion, yet it has no real lesbian vampires. It does have the OTHER infamous Rolling trope - nude Brigitte Lahaie. Also, Rollin ended up doing adult movies in the 80's under various pseudonyms to make money after offers for regular ones started slowing down. Some friends of mine saw him at Montreal's Fantasia Festival a few years before his death and he didn't appreciate the questions about directing adult movies.

That "what an idiot" comment got me good.

Favorite time of year to watch this channel!

Gonna have to look this movie up

Stumbled on this one night. Felt the same way.

"ah, the French"

The zombie looks like Rex Reed!

9:32 Hehehehe 😂

I always remember seeing this on the shelf in my local video shop when I was a nipper.

So I stopped the video to go check the nudity of the first scene, after the "video she can show her gynecologist". And honestly it was wholesome lol. She was totally comfortable being naked, and pretty decent swimmer too. It was adorable.

Jean Rollin's "Lesbian Vampire Killers" would be very different!

OMG, this movie

This reminds me of 1977 ‘Shock Waves’.

So it’s 1950s France. But everyone acts like it’s 60s if Columbo did weed

I found out about this movie when clips of it were shown in "Meatballs 2."

With a directing history like THAT this is the one movie he is ashamed of? -_-

Oh, Jean Rollin. The no-budget, French, (sometimes) soft-core Terrence Malick. "Plot? Character development? No. We need meandering shots and nonsensical (often pretentious) dialog. Oh, and naked vampire ladies. Yes. Lots of naked vampire ladies. OK. They don't HAVE to be vampires."

Oh wow... "Le lac des morts vivants"! I haven't seen that movie in ages. It used to play now and then on late night TV here (and being french Canadian TV, it aired with boobs and all). Crappy but fun movie.

@3:32 Hey, that's my cousin, Vinny! - A Xenomorph, 2022

Cudos for the subtitles. They are good. 3:31 wait an alien statue among the gargoyles?

6:40 I thought for a second there that we cut to a scene of Mel Brooks in his office in Blazing Saddles.

The guy who dont fight back is Jean Rollin himself lol

I was expecting you to talk about the behind the scenes production a bit more.

“Some of these shots she could show her gynaecologist” See it’s lines like this that are gonna get RU-vid to also ban talking about nudity

Video Nasty here in the U.K. under the section 3 list 😂

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All the nudity is probably the best thing about the movie.

This is my first experience with seeing boobs, I was 13 and this had been added to Netflix, truly a wild ass flick

While I have yet to see this film yet, I did see Oasis Of The Zaniness. I kinda liked it.

This was supposed to be Tchaikovskys follow up to Swan Lake, but unfortunately he died before finishing writing it... and Roger Corman took over.

We know a remote farm in Lincolnshire, where Mrs. Buckley lives; every July, peas grow there..

I can dig it...

"I'm fine making exploitation films with lesbian vampires. But exploitation films featuring Nazi zombies is where I draw the line. Plus I don't have the credentials."

Wait a second! I think that Xenomorph gargoyle wasn’t really in the movie! Been bamboozled!

3:32 is that a xenomorph?!

This reminds me of a series of films i can across by accident - Rape Zombie The Lust Of The Dead parts 1-5. Completely nuts !

Xenomorph grotesques? awesome

"Hero Nazi" is a phrase I did not expect to hear

It's great that most of the films covered on this channel are available on RU-vid for free. Just like this one!

At 3:31, apparently that totally-not-a-xenomorph gargoyle was added to a Scottish abbey in the '90s during some restoration work where several of the gargoyles were replaced. I guess the filmmakers got some b-roll there and either recognised it and wanted in on the joke or just thought it looked weird and wanted it in their picture.

I would simply not swim in the place called Zombie Lake

11:06 Ah so he directed Twilight?