在法王路易十六时期，各种社会矛盾日益激化，新兴的资产阶级同情农民疾苦，受到巴黎雅各宾派的影响，阿尔诺带领马赛港的市民设计夺取了要塞，得到了武器，并驱逐了公爵，他们举行集会通过决议组织500名义勇军进军巴黎去搭救同情改革的议员，马赛市民积极参军，高唱着马赛曲向进发。途中他们受到了拥护共和的人民的欢迎也和顽固的保皇党进行了战斗，到达巴黎后，他们汇入了革命者的队伍，1792年8月10日，巴黎人民在雅各宾派的领导下，终于推翻了路易十六王朝，赢得了政权交替的胜利，揭开了法国大革命的序幕，而这个时期创作的进军歌曲

　　“当子弹开花时他们共有二十三人，二十三个在这之前已献出真心的人，二十三个作为我们兄弟的外国人……”1955年，法国诗人阿拉贡曾为一群为法国献身的移民写下这样的诗句。时间回到1943年德军占领巴黎期间，在亚美尼亚诗人米萨克·马努尚（Missak Manouchian）的带领下，一群年轻的犹太人、匈牙利人、波兰人、罗马尼亚人、西班牙人、意大利人、亚美尼亚人结成了地下抵抗组织，决心为了解放他们所爱的法国而战斗。他们冒着生命危险，进行了多起针对纳粹及其傀儡的暗杀行动。很快，他们成为了纳粹的眼中钉，警方通过跟踪、检举、要挟以及严刑拷打等手段掌握并镇压了他们的行动。1944年2月21日，包括马努尚在内的22名男子和一名女子被判处死刑。这二十三人被纳粹称为“罪恶部队”，而其后他们的形象却随着一张张红色宣传单出现在全国的大街小巷，这些为了法国的自由而牺牲的外国移民最终成为了这个国家的传奇英雄。

　　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's, why it'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's 'convincing' zombie make-up basically consists of green paint, which doesn't even cover the whole of the actors faces and keeps washing off in the lake.
　　There'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'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'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's not to say the film isn'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!