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3 | ''Shock Waves'' is a 1977 horror film. Its cast features Creator/PeterCushing and Creator/JohnCarradine. |
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5 | During World War II, ThoseWackyNazis created [[NaziZombies the Death Corps]], nigh-invincible troopers made from the dead German soldiers. After carrying out few missions, they disappeared into the sea at the end of the war. |
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7 | An undersea quake years later awakens them from their rest, and they go after shipwrecked holiday-goers who are stranded on an island nearby. |
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10 | !!These tropes rose up from the depths: |
11 | * AbandonedArea: The once elegant hotel where the SS officer has been holed up for years. |
12 | * AssholeVictim: The extremely whiny Norman. |
13 | * ClosedCircle: The island. |
14 | * DeathByCameo: Creator/JohnCarradine as Captain Norris isn't in the movie long before getting KilledOffscreen somehow. |
15 | * FinalGirl: Rose. |
16 | * FlareGun: After colliding with the suddenly ascended ship, the yacht captain fires his flare gun to reveal its position. It's also [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Flare Gun]]. |
17 | * FreakOut: It is, after all, a horror movie. [[spoiler:Some characters, like Keith, have phobias that don't show up until catastrophic freak outs.]] |
18 | * ForegoneConclusion: Rose being the only survivor. |
19 | * GhostShip: Lampshaded by the captain. |
20 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: The SS officer has a scar going over his right eye. |
21 | * GoneHorriblyRight: The Death Corps project. |
22 | * TheHermit: The former SS officer, who has lived on his own since the war. |
23 | * HowWeGotHere: The film opens with Rose being rescued from the sea, who then tells us the events leading to it. |
24 | * ImplacableMan: The zombies never have different facial expressions and indifferently wade through anything and everything to get to their victims. |
25 | * KilledOffScreen: Captain Norris. It's implied (but never confirmed) that he got killed by a zombie while attempting to repair the ''Bonaventure'''s engine. |
26 | * NaziZombies: The entire plot. |
27 | * NoNameGiven: The elderly SS officer played by Creator/PeterCushing. |
28 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: They are undead soldiers who are driven by their need to kill. |
29 | * PeekabooCorpse: |
30 | ** Rose goes on a swim in the lake, only to run into Dobbs' corpse. |
31 | ** Norris' (the captain) corpse is also discovered this way. As the castaways are rowing ashore, Norman's wife is startled by Norris floating face up underneath them through the boat's glass bottom. |
32 | * SpitefulSpit: The SS commander when Keith keeps following him and asking questions. |
33 | * StupidJetpackHitler: [[NaziZombies Nazi soldiers resurrected]] by science to fight for the Third Reich under the sea! |
34 | * TemporaryBlindness: [[spoiler:Or at least it might've been temporary, but for other events.]] |
35 | * WeakenedByTheLight: That's why the Death Corps wear goggles. |
36 | * ZombieGait: The Death Corps exhibit a stiff walking style. It's a little different from the shambling, uncoordinated stagger of most zombies; since they're (kind of) intelligent, they merely walk stiffly but purposefully toward a goal. |
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