Oasis of the Zombies

Starring:Howard Vernon
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Description

Robert, a student at an English university, receives word of his father's unexpected death and returns home to Africa. While reading his father's dairies, Robert learns of the obsession that led to his death: $6,000,000 in Nazi gold that remains buried at an oasis in the Sahara desert, protected by the restless, rotting souls who died protecting it. Using his inheritance, Robert bands together with three fellow students to wrest the unclaimed fortune from the dunes of the dead!

Customer Reviews:

The head of the sheik dead!.......2007-06-01

I have to step up to the plate and say I like this one. I have seen all of the euro-zombie B or lover movie list that I'm aware of. Including such slop as Burial Ground, Zombie Lake, Zombie 3, Nightmare city, Hell of the Living Dead, and Zombie Holocaust to name a few. Those movies I can say did nothing to peak my interest other than to give me a few good ideas at Halloween costumes. But this one I have to say for some strange reason, I like. True..it is very low budget, but I can see as a kid I would have loved this.
On some imaginary level..it works. I love the drum and sheik music, the desert oasis thing with the gold, and the dead Nazi guardians of the ill gotten means. I liked the clay like zombie make-up( at least they weren't green like in zombie lake), and the special effects were masked in a way that it just wasn't stupid-out-rite obvious it was fake. I did laugh and enjoy this film for all it's many flaws. I can't recommend all of Franco's films. But if you want a cheap zombie movie that at least can stand with say Shockwaves or Fulci's Zombie, this one I'd give a try. I did order a used copy for my zombie private stash.

an excellent peice of crap.......2006-12-12

oasis of the zombies is considered by most people to be the worst zombie film ever. when looked at technically it is, but when looked at as a horror film, i think it suceeds if not excells. the movie is about college kids searching for lost nazi gold in the desert. as you could probably expect, theyre attacked and killed by the undead nazis who are gaurding the gold. the zombies themselves look pretty cool. the makeup is done very well for a film with such a small budget. there is only one gore scene which is when the zombies tear out a womens intestines. the films biggest problem is its pacing. the film is very boring at times. also, the films overall quality is low. if you can just ignore the crappy quality and be patient through the boring parts, you may find yourself enjoying this little gem. it may be a peice of crap, but its an excellent peice of crap.

This one creeps, mesmerises and flows, o so quietly, but still goes straight for the kill..........2006-07-10

This zombie movie is according to most people one of the worst ever made and I don't agree. I really can't get enough of this one, and I certainly don't mean this in any sarcastic way. As a mater a fact, I have nothing with zombie movies really, except with the teriffic punk-spoof "Return of the living dead" - and this one, "Oasis of the living dead" (as my own VHS edition is still called.)

So what's wrong with it then, hey?
Let me post the opposite question as an answer: so what's to be liked about this then, hey?

I like it's amateuristic-looking aproach: it gives you that delicious documentary-feel. This is mainly thanx to the constant neuroticly zooming-in of the camera; first it's irritating, I admit, but after a while it becomes part of that swinging cinema-variété style, and you start to appreciate it, that is of course, if you're on the same radio-frequence here as I am.

Then you have this wonderful eerie organ tune, which is as simple and effective as the theme music of such flicks as "Halloween", "Suspiria" and "Phantasm".

Then there are the sublime moments of quietness throughout the movie, in which only sounds of nature is heard, like wind or birds. Together with the locations, from worn-down houses in nameless sun-blazed town, to the dessert and the sinister oasis itself, it works.

And talk about music: how about that sound that can best be described as "blood flowing through veins", like some chirurgical instrument is pressed against someone's arteries. It's all clever stuff the makers came up with when they knew their budget (which was, I guess, no budget at all) could not provide them with a full blown orchestra - and thank God for that.

It's an overall eerie tone and dense, hot-blazing atmosphere here. The effect of all this is hightened by the zombies themselves who do not howler, scream, run, jump or act in any frantic way - they just emerge from the sand, they simply "are there" all of a sudden, and then they overcome, and allmost seduce in stead of maim.

The result is still death and mayhem, but almost in a hypnotic sense.
(And you can quote me on this one.)

Laughable.......2006-06-09

Man, what was the budget for this movie?! Five dollars? How did this even get a release? Anyway, now that it's out of my system I will explain why. The movie is just a mish mash of total nonsense. First off, the dubbing is piss poor, sometimes it looks like they start talking before words even come out. The makeup is really unrealistic, but it actually looks kind of cool. This movie also moves at a snails pace, very slow and boring at times. My major problem with this movie was the lighting, extremely dim if not totally dark. One thing that really left me laughing was the ridiculous changing from daytime shots to night time shots in the final scene. One minute it shows sillouettes of zombies roaming through a sunset, then it's completely dark with just a campfire, and finally it shows a group of zombies with a sunny blue sky behind them! I only give this two stars because I think all zombie movies are pretty sweet. However as a fan of the genre, I really only recommend this if you have seen every other zombie film and just have to se this one too, you'll kind of feel sorry you watched this.

if you watch in a certain way.......2006-01-29

If you watch this in a certain way, with your tongue in cheek, ready for a pastiche of almost unrelated scenes knit together into a plot, willing to look aside and admire the beauty of the sand shots and the classy interiors when things get boring, able to throb along with the drum/organ soundtrack, ready for some shocks, willing to accept (and enjoy) the limitations of a low budget film, well ... this film just might change your life! All of Jess Franco's films, even his "bad" ones, make me happy. I was laughing all the way through this - till the end. What else do you want? It's art meets the cannibal zombies.

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