It's kind of like Gilligan's Island gone worse. The crew and passengers of a Caribbean tour boat are marooned on an island after hitting an uncharted wreck. The island is occupied by a former SS commander played by Peter Cushing... and his aquatic Nazi Zombies, uncontrollable weapons left over from World War II. The castaways soon become hunted, hilarity ensues.
The zombies are different from the standard flesh eaters as they just kill, rather than feed upon the living.
The castaways are by the book victims- nice guy, pretty girl, jerk, jerks wife, jock. The boat captain was played by John Carridine.
I'm not sure why I skipped this one for so long- I remember the box from when I worked at a video store in the late eighties, but had a tendency to get this mixed up with Zombie Lake and Oasis of the Zombies, because, well... Nazi Zombies.
(Here's why you should watch the credits- the zombie makeup designer was Alan Ormsby, writer and lead in the (ahem) "classic" Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. He has other credits but that's the one that'll go on his grave- that and the fact that he created the Hugo: The Man of a Thousand Faces doll.)
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