本片取材于真人真事。故事讲述被判死刑的男主人公弗朗西斯(弗朗索瓦·莱特瑞尔 François Leterrier饰)在临刑前的几个小时内，如何成功越狱地扣人心弦的故事。为逃脱纳粹监狱，弗朗西斯策划了一场天衣无缝的逃亡计划。为确保计划万无一失，他不仅做足越狱准备，还在仅有的洗漱空挡，多次跟隔壁囚室的狱友联络，试图找到共同实施计划的同盟。可还没来得及他准备好一切时，就被判立刻执行死刑。最终他毅然带着年轻的囚犯男孩一起踏上了逃亡之路。
　　极简的叙事结构，单一密闭的监狱空间，分秒必争的紧迫时间，罗伯特·布列松因本片荣获第10届戛纳电影节(1957)最佳导演奖。

　　Set in an unspecified French village, the locals are shocked when a group of girls skinny dipping in the nearby lake (all very tastefully done I hasten to add) are killed by a group of zombiefied Nazi soldiers, that spring up out of the waters and drag them down to their demise.
　　A couple of detectives are brought in to try and solve the mysterious murders, only to end up as the zombies next victims. It turns out that during the war, the French resistance ambushed and killed a squad of German soldiers and dumped the bodies into the nearby lake, but failed to take notice of any of the local superstitions (never a wise move). Although, seeing as this film appears to be set in the early 80__APOS__s, why it__APOS__s taken so long for them to emerge and start killing people is a bit of a mystery, but there you go.
　　Not-with-standing, the villagers quickly organise a lynch mob to take down the zombie menace, only to end up being decimated by the undead soldiers, who__APOS__s __APOS__convincing__APOS__ zombie make-up basically consists of green paint, which doesn__APOS__t even cover the whole of the actors faces and keeps washing off in the lake.
　　There__APOS__s also a bizarre sub plot about one of the zombies visiting his former daughter, who strangely still looks all of 12 despite the fact she should be in her 40__APOS__s if she was born near the end of the war, but then since when did logic ever come into these films? Such as why do their uniforms still look almost new despite being underwater for 40 years, or how come the skinny dipping girls are only knee deep in the water when viewed from the lakeside, yet appear to be swimming in 12 feet of it from the underwater shots?
　　Bad acting, naff zombie make-up (the aforementioned green face paint), painfully obvious underwater shots filmed in a swimming pool, not to mention the plot inconsistencies bigger than the aforementioned lake itself. Low budget doesn__APOS__t even begin to describe this film, which quite unbelievably was directed by respected Eurohorror director Jean Rollin, albeit under the pseudo name J A Laser.
　　That__APOS__s not to say the film isn__APOS__t without merit. I bust a gut laughing at the thoroughly ridiculous scenes of the zombies attacking the naked young girls, and the equally ridiculous slapstick battle with the angry villagers. Utterly hilarious, grab the six pack and the popcorn and have a blast!