Dec 22 2004
Movie: “Night of the Wehrmacht Zombies” (1981)
“Night of the Wehrmacht Zombies” (1981) directed by Joel M. Reed.
(MF Title: “Ein volk, ein reich, ein pornstar”)
Starring: Jamie Gillis, Samantha Grey, Ryan Hilliard, Ron Armstrong and Joel M. Reed.
Zombie Film Rating: 
Overview: A two man team (comprised of US Army Graves Registration and German Archives staff) is killed in the mountains while investigating the wartime loss of two battalions of German and American troops. Agent Nick Monroe is dispatched to investigate, and to track down a secret chemical the American troops were believed to be in possession of. What he discovers is that, for some, the war truly never ended.
Summary: This movie opens with a two man joint American-German research team looking for evidence of missing servicemen from World War II in the German Alps. Ignoring the local legends of zombies, terrorists and so forth they find their evidence, and are subsequently killed by those non-existant zombies.
The murder of the two men results in super spy Nick Monroe being dispatched, along with a military scientist, to find (and if possibly recover) the chemical possessed by the US troops when they went missing.
Naturally our spy travels to Germany and meets with a number of shady people in an effort to uncover, well… um, we’re never entirely sure why he’s wandering around the city when the men were killed in the mountains, but without dwelling on this point, Monroe discovers something is amiss when his contacts begin getting killed by men impervious to gunfire.
Deciding that he has helped thin the local population enough, Monroe and the scientist (joined by the scientists neice of course) travel into the mountains to get to the bottom of things.
What Monroe discovers is that the chemical the US troops had (Gamma 693) causes those exposed to it to become zombies (although without the usual shuffling and brain damage, these zombies remain intelligent). 
The officers of the US and German units have been using the Gamma 693 in small quantities to keep their troops occupied by fighting each other while they plan the domination of the world!
Further, it turns out the scientist sent by Washington to assist Monroe is a zombie himself, and had served with the American unit during the war. His “personal” supply of Gamma 693 has run out, and he desperately needs to restock to prevent him becoming a rotting stumbling corpse. In his desperation to fend off his demise he attacks his neice, and is turned into zombie mulch by Monroe using the special anti-zombie spray cooked up earlier.
Naturally the zombie officers offer Monroe a place in their new world order, which he immediately declines by shooting them (he doesn’t really get points for keeping up on current events…what made you think shooting would work this time!).
As the movie ends Monroe is explaining to his boss what had taken place, and we are left wondering if he is indeed a zombie.
Critique: Nick Monroe is played by Jamie Gillis (even a quick check of the IMDB will show over 150 porn film credits for this actor), and he never really drops the porn film greasiness during this zombie flick.
Otherwise for a zombie film this one is pretty good, bad acting, horrible film quality (as evidenced in the stills included here), and a plot that swings back and forth with complete abandon.
3 Responses to “Movie: “Night of the Wehrmacht Zombies” (1981)”
This website is whacked. This Erik guy must be fucked in the head!
Hmmm, who let the disturbingly tall bald guy in here?
I’m not that Jamie Gillis. I’m another. I will have to see that movie. The only Jamie Gillis movie I watched was a porno from the seventies and he was a hypnotist. It was kind of funny in a bizarre way.