| View Larger Image | Oasis of the Zombies | DVDStarring: Manuel Gélin, France Lomay, Jeff Montgomery, Myriam Landson, Eric Viellard
Directed By: Jesus Franco
Also With: Juan Soler (Cinematographer), Max Monteillet (Cinematographer), Jesus Franco (Writer), Claude Gros (Editor), Daniel Lesoeur (Producer), Marius Lesoeur (Producer), Ramón Llidó (Writer)
| List Price: | $9.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 82 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Image Entertainment | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.66:1 | | Release Date: | March 27, 2001 | | Sales Rank: | 85,063th |
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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 (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 26 reviews)
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Not THAT bad! by C. Duchesne (Quebec, Canada)  4 Stars
January 12, 2009
Someone already gave a summary of the movie, so I'll get straight to the point... This movie got lots and lots of terrible reviews, a lot of people consider it to be the worst zombie movie ever and it has an overall rating of 2/10 on IMDB, but it really doesn't deserve all of that hate... Sure, it's not very good, it's pretty boring (well, I'm patient, so I didn't find it too boring), some scenes last too long for no reason, it has a couple of goofs (some characters (the main character's dad and the sheik) look the same exact way 20 years later), the main characters are pretty stupid and sometimes emotionless (They don't really care that their friends die and they don't look scared enough when they see the zombies) and it doesn't have any gore (Well, some girl has her guts ripped out, but it's not very graphic), but there's nothing wrong with the plot, the atmosphere is pretty creepy (when the zombies come out of the ground), some of the zombies look great and it's much better than Zombie Lake (ok, that's really not saying much, but still...). Overall it's a piece of crap if you're only into good filmmaking, but you might enjoy it if you like "so bad it's good" movies.
It doesn't deserve more than 3 stars, but it deserves more than 2.5 stars, so that's why I rated it 4 stars. I have to mention that I WANTED to like it though, so maybe that's why I didn't find it too bad.
By the way, I saw it in french. Just mentioned that because I heard that it's better in french.
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nazi zombies on the loose by Michael P. Dobey (colorado springs)  3 Stars
December 24, 2008
This is a very low budget horror flick if you don't like that type
of movie then you shouldn't bother with this one. But on the low budget horror scale this is entertaining. Jess Franco has a easy to follow plot on this feature. This was the third nazi zombie movie the other two being the excellent "shockwave" and the ok 'zombie lake", If something made money then jess would eventually get around to his take on the subject. And he did that here with this one. This was made in 1983 and the hairstyles reflect that but that was common back then. As you are making a movie for a 1983 audience so the zombies have way to much hair for world war 2 era soldiers but that is no big deal. This is what you'd expect for a low budget horror flick about nazi zombies: they protect the oasis and kill and eat anyone who shows up. They did the best they could with what money they had and the acting isn't too bad. This is a good one for a late night viewing. It's not great horror but it's fun enough. The movies print is watchable at least; although not cleaned up at all compared to what a company like blu underground would do. So all in all this is for fans of low budget horror flicks.
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Another Extremely BAD Zombie Movie!!! by Pumpkin Man  1 Stars
September 19, 2008
This is quite possibly the worst zombie movie I've ever seen! The ridiculous plot is about some zombies protecting Nazi gold. It doesn't get any dumber than that! I would NOT recommend OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES!!!
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And it looked so good by the description! by Zelie Nic (Pittsburgh) 1 Stars
February 24, 2008
I got this movie in a big compilation of fifty horror films. I expected quite a few to be bad; bad in the MST3K sense... but this? This movie's just bad. I'll spare you from the general plot overview, as that tends to make the movie sound awesome. What I will tell you is that this movie takes forever to get going. Despite seeing zombie hands within the first five minutes, you don't see them again for a long time. So long, in fact, that I don't think I've ever stayed awake long enough to see!
I honestly can't recomend this movie to anyone. It's like watching the original "Day of the Dead" But not the first ten minutes, when there's zombies... or the last twenty, when there's zombie inside the mall. This movie is like watching all the boring "mall" scenes from "Day of the Dead" sans zombies....
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And I like Bad Flics... Yikes! by Vincenzo L. Falcone 1 Stars
December 06, 2007
I'm a guy who likes bad flics, and this one, I could barely endure to the end. In a word - Awful. A bad premise, backed up by bad acting, supported by bad make-up, and amplified by bad editing.
Oasis of the Zombies for me, what root canal without anesthesia would be for any of us. I love zombie films, but this one I say, 'stay away from.' It reeks of Zombie Lake - which is another Nazi-Zombie Stinker...but we'll talk about that there.
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