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Plot summary
Rose, Norman, Chuck, Beverly, Keith and Dobbs are aboard a small recreational boat when the engine gives them trouble and an orange haze sends the navigation system haywire. At night a cargo ship looms out of the dark and rams them, and the captain's flare reveals a huge, rotting vessel stranded on a nearby reef. By morning the captain is missing and their boat is filling with water, so the group rows to an island, where they find a rundown hotel and the old man living in it. He is alarmed by their story and insists that no shipwreck lies on the island. Below the water, zombie-like men walk the ocean floor toward the shore.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Shock Waves (1977)
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- Ken Wiederhorn said he and producer Reuben Trane made Shock Waves a horror film because its investors had one requirement: they wanted a horror movie, which Wiederhorn said they believed had the best chance of making its money back. He said the idea for the film's aquatic Nazi villains came from a book called The Morning of the Magicians.
- Producer Reuben Trane and director Ken Wiederhorn won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Dramatic Student Film while they were students at Columbia University in New York City, and Shock Waves was the pair's first commercial feature film.
