Frozen Nazis

THE FROZEN DEAD-1966-In a compound of old Nazis living in Germany, Dr. Norberg (Dana Andrews) is conducting experiments with soldiers frozen at the end of the war. He's assisted by Karl (Alan Tilverne). General Lubeck (Karel Stepanek) and Dr. Tirpitz (Basil Henson) come to see a soldier get defrosted. It seems 1500 Nazis were frozen. While reviving the latest Nazi, Norberg's niece Jean (Anna Palk; THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING)) and her American friend Elsa (Kathleen Breck; SPACE FLIGHT IC-1) come for a visit. Unfortunately most of his experiments don't come out very well. Fortunately (?) the doc's zombified brother (Edward Fox in his first credited role) kills Elsa and Norberg revives Elsa's severed head so he can study it. Then Dr. Roberts (Phillip Gilbert) comes from the US to help Norberg, who also has a wall full of arms that move by electricity. Like in THE THING THAT WOULDN'T DIE, the head with no body seems to have telekinesis. Meanwhile Jean investigates her friend's disappearance. Later she learns everything from Roberts. When Lubeck tries to harm Jean the head has the arms strangle him and Norberg. Jean meets her dad who tries to kill her. He's shot by the police. The head's last words: “Bury me”. 

This THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN influenced horror nonsense is very shoddy. Director Herbert J. Leder made a few other rarely shown movieS including IT!, a low budget Golem influenced story with Roddy McDowell. At this point in his career star Dana Andrews was making a lot of low budget independent features. He made HOT RODS TO HELL the next year.

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