: It stars veteran character actor Howard Vernon as the town's mayor, a role he reprised frequently in European horror films. Critical Legacy
The story is set in a small French village haunted by its WWII past. During the war, a group of Nazi soldiers was ambushed by the French Resistance and their bodies were dumped into a local lake. Decades later, these soldiers rise as waterlogged, green-faced zombies to terrorize the locals. Zombie Lake(1981)
: The film serves as a crude allegory for France's struggle to confront "resurgent wartime sins" and the tenacious nature of fascist ideologies. : It stars veteran character actor Howard Vernon