As OVERLORD descends upon theaters across the U.S. this weekend (11/9/2018), the Gruesome Magazine Grue-Crew invite you to revisit an early episode of DECADES OF HORROR 1970s featuring the 1977 classic SHOCK WAVES. The podcast originally released in April of 2015 and features hosts Doc Rotten and The Black Saint along with guest hosts Bill Mulligan and Paul Cardullo.
Nazi Zombies, Alan Ormsby makeup design, Peter Cushing and John Caradine: it is a recipe for greatness. This episode Decades of Horror dives into the bloody waters of SHOCK WAVES from director Ken Wiederhorn. The tagline says it all, “Once They Were Almost Human! Beneath the living… Beyond the dead… From the depths of Hell’s Ocean! The Deep End of Horror!” The Black Saint and Doc Rotten tackle another groovy horror film from the 1970s.
Decades of Horror 1970s
Episode 16 — Shock Waves (1977)
North Carolina filmmaker Bill Mulligan returns DoH to discuss Shock Waves along with horror fan Paul Cardullo who along with Doc Rotten recently caught the film on the big screen at the Retrofantasma film series at the Carolina Theater in Durham, NC. Along with the aforementioned Cushing and Carradine, Shock Waves stars Brook Adams and Don Stout. The film is fondly remembered for its atmospheric imagery of waterlogged Nazi Zombies rising from the depths. The Black Saint, Doc, Bill, and Paul spend an hour looking back at the polarizing but influential cult classic, Shock Waves.
Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
