Shock Waves

by | Feb 6, 2025 | Film, Fun, GlibFlick | 104 comments

All I asked for is one image of an underwater goose-stepping Nazi so I could make fun of Elon. Denied! Also, will you unban my X account please, Mr. Musk? I was just looking at funny cat videos, I promise…

Shock Waves

People have no concept of what a Nazi is anymore. Nazi this. Nazi that. Elon’s a Nazi. The guy who manages the grocery store, he’s a Nazi. Nazi please! Give it a break. You want real Nazis? How about goose-stepping underwater zombie Nazis?

Probably a lot of you have heard of this film but never seen it. Here’s your chance! Shock Waves came out at a bad time, sandwiched between a bunch of other much more famous horror films such as Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc. Also, it didn’t have all the blood those movies did. I don’t think it needed it. First time I saw Shock Waves, I thought maybe it was a Hammer horror film because of the atmosphere. I was mistaken. The director (and co-writer) Ken Wiederhorn had nothing to do with Hammer Studios. Ken was an independent, out to make a movie. His first film out of film school! Keep in mind, not only was this his first commercial film, he was decades ahead of Dead Snow or Iron Sky.

So what is Shock Waves about? IMDB’s plot summary entry sucks this week, probably because they are afraid of supporting Nazis. So I will elaborate: A group of tourists on a boat run into some problems. They get stranded on an island with an escaped Nazi doctor tending to underwater Nazi zombies! Goose-stepping Rigor Mortis ensues! I know, basically the same plot from Gilligan’s Island, only with more fascism and less communism.*

Some Trivia! This was filmed at the Florida Biltmore Hotel, during a particularly dark time for the property: It was bought up by the city after being designated a *shudders* public landmark. It became empty for a decade and went to Hell in a handbasket. Government always knows best, etc. It is now safely back in the hands of capitalists. You can go stay there now, it has been totally restored!

So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Looks like it might stay that way for a while. And get pretty entertaining, to boot! Remember you can talk about anything you want, as soon as you want on Thursdays. There are no limits! For instance, what does everyone think of the tariffs?

Help! I Would Rather Watch Something Without Nazis!

Too bad.

*I can’t wait to hear the comments about that line.

About The Author

R.J.

R.J.

Hello. My name is R.J. I am a Tulpa with extra cheese and sour cream.

104 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “Gilligan’s Island, only with more fascism and less communism.*”

    Can’t fix a two-foot hole in a boat? Makes sense.

    • creech

      Who becomes Thurston Howell’s handmaiden?

      • R.J.

        Elizabeth Warren

      • creech

        Please, I just ate.

      • Chafed

        C’mon man.

      • rhywun

        I heard she’s good at gettin’ some beer.

  2. Common Tater

    I liked Iron Sky, but not the sequel.

    Although it might not age well. Who is going to remember Sarah Palin?

    • R C Dean

      Who?

    • R.J.

      The second one did not hold up well, should gave just stopped at one. Also the female pres will just be “president girl boss” as the years pass.

    • CPRM

      Udo Kier still lives.

      • R.J.

        He does. Somehow he still looks good.

      • Common Tater

        Lisa Ann is kind of mid.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Very pissed off – crowdfunded the second one – but they bailed on providing the blu-rays they committed to and went straight to Netflix. Very disappointed.

      Still waiting on my crowdfunded investment in “The Dreamlands“. Delayed but still in production.

  3. Tres Cool

    tits?

    • Common Tater

      Since the dawn of man, a question for the ages.

    • R.J.

      My answer was eaten.
      Where were you last week? The movie title was “Bit Tits Zombie.”

      • R.J.

        Big! Big! AAAAAAH!

      • Common Tater

        It’s a titillating title.

    • Tres Cool

      Oh I was here. I think I commented at about the 20 minute mark.

    • Common Tater

      It’s morning in America!

      • rhywun

        lol As clear a sign as any.

      • R.J.

        Wonderful! Now she needs to go eat some of those hamburgers.

    • Gustave Lytton

      TikTok influencer. 🤮

      • kinnath

        Blonde, big tits, burger. If she didn’t talk, it’d be all good.

      • Common Tater

        Well, that’s the way of the world now.

        They should have hired Sydney Sweeney. She’s already doing ads for Dr. Squatch

      • Gustave Lytton

        Don’t care.

        And February Super Bowls are still an abomination.

    • Chafed

      *Stands and salutes*

    • Common Tater

      I agree it’s shame. Although it’s not much of a synthesizer, as a Raspberry Pi doesn’t have much power.

    • rhywun

      Something seems missing from this story. Why is this guy in particular getting so much harrassment…?

    • Brochettaward

      We need some well informed libertarians to just Tweet at Elon endlessly with various things that should be cut from government. You losers need to get on the Twatters and make this happen.

      • rhywun

        get on the Twatters

        Not happening.

      • Mojeaux

        I’m sure he’s bookmarked Rand Paul’s festivus tweets. That’s a good start.

      • Chafed

        Angela McCardle is too busy trying to stay out of prison.

      • R.J.

        They banned me already.

  4. Brochettaward

    Josh Allen won MVP over Lamar Jackson.

    Good.

    • Chafed

      Sounds right to me.

    • Festus

      Back in my day we only had she-males like Sulka and he was only advertised in the back pages of the most grotty magazines. Sulka wasn’t trapping anyone…

  5. Festus

    One of Elon’s DOGE autists is a 19 year-old that uses the nomenclature “Big Balls”. I just watched CNN say it on air. I’m fucking dying.

    • rhywun

      I don’t know whether to be appalled or turned on.

      • Festus

        I’ll admit to being a giggler but watching those po-faced anchors say the words filled me with delight!

      • Chafed

        Why not both?

      • Ted S.

        You like Big Balls and you cannot lie.

    • CPRM

      CNN likes Big Balls.

      • rhywun

        And they cannot lie!

      • Chafed

        We’ve got the biggest balls of them all!

      • Festus

        They can’t help themselves. The Producers must know how ridiculous the talent sounds and yet they let it go live. Keep it up, I need more laughter in my life.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      ¡Festus!!

      • Festus

        Greetings M’Lady.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Always nice to hear from you, F.

      • Festus

        Fucking Epic!

      • rhywun

        Oh lol indeed

      • CPRM

        I don’t get it. I know the GIF is from South Park. In the episode Randy gets ball cancer to get legal weed. But I don’t get what ‘joke’ Musk is making. The doxxers have big cancerous balls? Or do the doxxed have big cancerous balls?

      • Brochettaward

        Read what Festus wrote. They “doxed” a guy whose nickname was apparently Big Balls or he says big balls or some such bullshit.

  6. CPRM

    ERMERGERD! I’m trying to watch the unedited Harris 60 minutes interview (because I hate myself), BUT the audio is in stereo. Harris is on the left channel, interviewer on the right channel. BUT in the frame, Harris is on the right and the interviewer is on the left. This might not bother regular folks, but it’s fucking with my mind.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Watch it in a mirror?

      • Chafed

        This is why I keep coming back.

    • Festus

      I watched about a minute. She had trouble blowing her nose.

      • Ted S.

        She was better at blowing other things.

    • Festus

      Read above.

    • CPRM

      Greta Thunberg aged quickly, and I didn’t know she was Jewish.

      • Festus

        Wait a minute! I thought she just grew some boobies. That’s what the interwebs told me.

      • CPRM

        Breast circumcision is in right now?

    • Festus

      Like most “International Aid Organizations”. Fuck them. Fuck the U.N. Knock those buildings down for a dog park.

    • Chafed

      That’s right on the nose.

  7. Aloysious

    Stars Peter Cushing. Almost a Hammer film.

  8. LCDR_Fish

    Great flick. Classic VHS cover. Rented it in college. Have a DVD now, but need to see if it’s been upgraded to BR.

    • Ted S.

      You’re not the boss of me.

      I will, however, not complain about waking up late and screwing up the commute like UCS. :-p

      (For the record, I didn’t wake up late.)

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., Suthen, and Grumble!

      So what the heck is going on weather-wise in NJ/PA? I have a package coming via UPS – with a gift for someone whose birthday is Sunday – that was SUPPOSED to be here today. It left Kingston, NY, and arrived at Parsippany, NJ, Tuesday evening, then left there yesterday at 3:30 a.m. At 7:00 a.m. yesterday, the report was “Severe weather conditions have delayed delivery”…and that’s the last I’ve heard. Is Parsippany a portal to Hell or something? 😒

      • Ted S.

        Well, New Jersey *is* Hell.

        Seriously, we had about an inch of snow up here in Ulster County, with sleet putting an irritating crust on top of that. Annoying, but not severe.

      • rhywun

        We had slush in upstate NY yesterday and the whole region shut down. It’s ridiculous.

    • rhywun

      humanitarian

      Sure, Jan. 🙄

  9. Suthenboy

    Good morning all.

    Just saw a few snippets from the unedited Kamalamadingdong interview.
    Holy shit. Ok, I admit that it is as bad as I thought but seeing it is shocking when I consider that is the person those chose to put up for president. It drives home just how surreally bad things have become.
    Trump is just the face of what happens when people have just had enough. The lunatics are running the asylum. It is past overdue for a serious house cleaning.

    There were a few comments last night on fed judges overstepping and what might be done about it. I dont really know enough to say at this point but I might want to take back some of the things I have said in the past about Lincoln. Maybe,

    • Grumbletarian

      TBF, It was the person they were forced to choose. They set that airhead up as VP for diversity points, lied about Biden having more than two brain cells left to rub together, and when that lie was exposed beyond all possible doubt, they were forced to lie about thinking Kamala was a halfway intelligent candidate with a viable chance of winning. Picking some white man over the ‘brat’ Black girlboss VP would have been untenable to their identity politics agenda.

      • Suthenboy

        I think there is a bit of overanalyzing going on. Yes, by the rules in the bizarro world they created they were ‘forced’ to pick her instead of holding a primary and letting their voters elect a nominee. They painted themselves into a corner with crazy and that is what they got.

        I was just listening to Kat Tempf explain in detail about how studies show gender puberty muscle girls scientific racism Nazi sex something something arglebarglebloop. What the fuck is she doing? STOP arguing with lunatics on their terms. Women dont have peckers. Boys cant play in girl’s sports. When you look around and notice you are in crazy town put the goddamned brakes on and turn around. We need a sane person at the wheel.

        Let’s get back to first principles. Concentrating money and power draws the worst kinds of people the way shit draws flies. It is time to take our money back. That money represents the fruit of our labor. It does not belong to the government. Add up every penny government takes from you in one way or other and you will find it amounts to 90+%. They are stealing everything in sight and using it against us. This is not acceptable.
        Yesterday I said to my father that the income tax has to go. The IRS has to go. He replied “We cant. That is the only way they can get money.”
        You are kidding me….you too? No it isn’t. It is not. They have to go.
        “But how?”. I asked him how they got money before the income tax. Tariffs….I know. Unthinkable cuz OMB!
        Stop arguing with lunatics on their terms.

      • rhywun

        I think they were going to have a primary – because Barack et al. didn’t want Kamala – but Joe out of spite short-circuited the whole thing by immediately endorsing Kamala. And here we are.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I don’t know if a better candidate espousing the same policies would have won anyway Rhy, it seems that most people were just tired of the nonsense.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Luckily for us we have respectable news outlets like Politico to uncover the real story on things like the Harris interview. Wait, what’s that? Well damn…

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        But seriously, was all of the insanity of the last eight or nine years just astroturfed fedgov slushfund driven bullshit? There’s a lot to unwind there but it’s like they took the overseas playbook and ran a color revolution of sorts on us. Just completely opaque borderline (maybe not borderline) criminal behavior.

      • rhywun

        Yes, and yes not even borderline.

        Treasonous from top to bottom.

      • Suthenboy

        Not borderline.

        Great works of fiction are not really fiction. They are depictions of actual experiences that happened in the real world portrayed in a way that makes them easier to make sense of, exaggerations meant to clarify.
        Tolkien did not invent Grima Wormtounge out of thin air.

  10. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump”
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/elon-musk-us-government-power

    Note the sign that lady’s carrying: Arrest Elon. Musk wants to downsize and eliminate waste and some people will be fired/laid off in the process while they want him arrested. Their fallback is always bringing down the heavy hand of the federal government and that’s why it has to be neutered. I hope Trump’s just doing stopgap measures for the time being because executive orders won’t cut it long term, too easy to reverse.

    • Ted S.

      So we should arrest the people really running things during Biden’s dementia?

    • Ted S.

      Everything for the state; nothing against the state; nothing outside the state.

    • rhywun

      I don’t have the patience for those commies’ crazy shit this morning.

  11. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    yo whats goody

      • Ted S.

        Section 8 housing?

      • Tres Cool

        Those people signed a lease- they knew what they were getting into.
        I say, let it burn!

      • Tres Cool

        Section 8?
        I think its market, or perhaps tax-credit. But it may as well be a housing project.

      • Grummun

        Without reading the article, I’m going to go out on a limb (snicker) and say that Meadows of Catalpa is not a high end address.

        Messy fucking trees, with seed pods and the flowers and the worm shit.

      • Tres Cool

        Maybe 30+ years ago it was a nice place. Its an old property.
        In its current state however, its skectchy at best.

      • rhywun

        “My boyfriend is sending me pictures of setting my clothes on fire,” the caller said.

        lol Classy

      • Gender Traitor

        Maybe 30+ years ago it was a nice place.

        I believe so. One of my best high school teachers lived there, and she wouldn’t have been caught dead in Section 8.