Zombie Lake

Zombie Lake
French theatrical poster
Directed by
Written by
  • Julián Esteban
  • Marius Lesoeur
Produced byDaniel Lesoeur
Starring
  • Howard Vernon
  • Pierre-Marie Escourrou
  • Anouchka Lesoeur
  • Nadine Pascal
CinematographyMax Monteillet
Edited by
  • Claude Gros
    (French version)
  • María Luisa Soriano (Spanish version)
Music byDaniel White
Production
companies
  • J.E. Films
  • Eurociné
Distributed byEurociné
Release date
  • 13 May 1981 (1981-05-13) (France)
Running time
90 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Spain
LanguageFrench

Zombie Lake (French: Le lac des morts vivants; Spanish: El lago de los muertos vivientes) is a 1981 French–Spanish horror film directed by Jean Rollin and starring Howard Vernon, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Anouchka Lesoeur and Nadine Pascal. Vernon plays the mayor of a small French town under attack from Nazi zombies who were killed by locals twenty years earlier. It received marginal praise for an unusual angle involving a little girl and her zombie father, but was otherwise lambasted for its production values, and became emblematic of exploitation house Eurociné's output.