Shock Waves (film)

A group of tourists are on a small recreational boat. After trouble with the engine, the navigation system goes haywire when they encounter an unusual orange haze. They start sensing that something is wrong. Tourist Norman becomes particularly abrasive. At night, a hulking cargo ship appears and sideswipes their boat. The boat's captain sends up a flare, which lights up the sight of a huge, rotting vessel wrecked nearby. The next morning, everyone wakes to find the Captain missing. Realizing that the boat is taking on water, everyone evacuates in the lifeboat and makes for a nearby island. They see the huge wreck in the light of day; she appears to have been there for decades, stranded on the island's reef. The group finds the Captain's corpse, apparently drowned while he was trying to check the underside of the boat for damage. They explore the island and discover a rundown hotel. At first they think it is deserted, but eventually discover a reclusive old man living there. The man seems alarmed by their story, saying that there is no shipwreck on the island. He seems to recognize the name they say was the one they saw on the ship and goes down to the beach to investigate. Under the water, zombie-like men gather, walking from the wreck along the ocean floor to the island. As Dobbs, the boat's cook, gathers items to help prepare food, the zombies corner him in the water; before being killed, Dobbs falls in a cluster of sea urchins and is mangled. Tourist Rose discovers his body while swimming. As they pull the corpse to shore, the boat's first mate Keith finds a piece of torn uniform bearing the insignia of the Nazi SS in his hand. Inside the hotel, their reluctant host says that he was a Nazi commander in charge of the "Death Corps", a group of zombies designed to be super-soldiers able to thrive in any environment, with his group specialized for aquatic operations. The creatures were intended to be a powerful weapon for the Nazis, but proved too difficult to control, with incidents involving them attacking their own soldiers. When Germany lost the war, he sank their ship and went into exile on the island. With the ship having raised herself from the ocean floor to the reef, he says that the zombies have returned and that they are doomed. The Commander goes down to the beach again and sees zombies off in the distance. He tries to order them to stop, to no avail. He tries to chase them, but they end up drowning him. The others locate a boat that the Commander mentioned and pilot it out through the streams to the open water. They lose control of the boat, and it sails away from them, empty. A zombie drowns Norman in a stream, and another chases Rose back to the hotel, where she kills it by pulling off its goggles. Tourists Chuck and Beverly, and Keith return to the hotel and barricade themselves in the refrigerator unit. The close quarters and stress cause the survivors to begin infighting, and Chuck accidentally fires a flare gun, blinding Beverly. Keith and Rose escape to an old furnace room and hide inside two metal grates, while Beverly hides in a closet. The zombies drown Chuck in a swimming pool outside. The next morning, Keith and Rose discover Beverly dead, drowned in a fish tank. Now on their own, they try to escape in a sightseeing rowboat with a glass bottom. The zombies attack, and although Keith defeats one by pulling off its goggles, a second one grabs him and drowns him just as the dinghy breaches the reef and drifts free. Rose sees Keith's corpse pressed up against the glass bottom of the boat and screams. Two fishermen eventually find Rose. They pull her onto their own boat. Later, in a hospital bed, Rose seemingly writes in a journal. She begins to repeat herself over and over, and it is revealed that she is writing nonsense in her journal, clearly having gone insane. ==Cast==