Really Surprised!

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES has to be one of the slowest-paced zombie flicks of all time, but it's still not the worst – that's an 'honour' that's been taken by the recent-ish, genuinely brain-dead likes of the DAY OF THE DEAD remake. This is cult director Jess Franco's idea of a zombie film, a French production set in the North African desert. The story goes that a shipment of lost gold is being hunted by all and sundry, who fail to realise that a horde of Nazi zombies are in fact protecting the lost treasure.It's an idea that sounds good on paper, but poor production values serve to ruin the little fun there is. For a start, there's a distinct lack of zombies, apart from two 2 minute sequences. The first comes halfway through, the last at the end. These are brief, violent attacks by the living dead, who indulge in a little gut-munching before sinking back beneath the sands. Sadly, there's nothing to distinguish them as 'Nazi' zombies; they look pretty much like any other European zombie, although the static masks and bulging eyes at least make them look weird and more than a little creepy.The rest of the film is full of exposition and, invariably with Franco, a little sex. There's nudity from some attractive young starlets and lots of riding around in jeeps. Although the odds are stacked against him, Franco manages to elicit a little atmosphere in his desert scenes, which stops this from being a total mess. There's a genuinely eerie feel to the isolated oasis locale and the scenes of hands rising from the sands are effectively done if nothing else. Otherwise, the acting is bad, although the script fleshes out the characters a little more than normal…they feel like real people, with all their foibles, rather than just walking victims. You could do worse – a lot worse!

This isn't the worst Franco movie I've ever watched (that honor goes to "Castle of Fu Manchu"), but it's pretty darned bad. Not so much incompetent or execrable, like an Ed Wood or Bill Rebane epic would be...just unpolished and lifeless (alright, maybe that's appropriate for a zombie flick) and sloppy.The screen play makes the mistake of killing off its most interesting character (and most charismatic actor) early on, and after that it's all about some stupid college students and a chubby guy with some hired assistants getting picked off by mummified Nazi corpses while the director zooms in on various objects as if he was trying to establish a patent on the technique. Aside from a couple of interesting makeup jobs, the zombies aren't scary at all. Even though the hook here is that these are Nazi soldiers guarding a gold stash in the desert, there's nothing really "Nazi-ish" about them.I saw this movie as a part of a public domain collection, so part of the problem might be a grainy print with all the color leached down into beige and tan, along a soundtrack that seems to have been recorded with a process that removed all the dynamic range out of the music and the vocals.Oddly, the movie gets an extra star because the slow, turgid rhythm of every scene seems to give the movie a hypnotic effect that might be meant to induce in its audience some of the tiring, draining effects of being stuck out in a desert for a long stretch with nothing to do. Usually, this kind of effect is a BAD thing, but here it makes the movie a bit more interesting in an abstract, expressionistic way.You don't need to avoid this, or anything, but "Oasis" is really good for nothing more than video wallpaper to a nice late night drinking session.

In the WWII, a platoon of German soldiers is attacked by the Allies in an oasis and only the British Commander survives. The Sheik and his daughter Aisha (Doris Regina) rescue him in the desert and bring him to their house, where he recovers. Years later, the survivor tells to the mercenary Kurt (Henry Lambert) that the German troop was transporting a shipment of 6 million-dollar in gold and he informs the location of the treasure. However Kurt kills him and organizes an expedition to find the treasure.Meanwhile the student Robert Blabber (Manuel Gélin) reads notes of his father and discovers that there is a treasure hidden in the desert. Robert joins his friends and they travel to the desert to seek the gold. However, when they reach the location, they are attacked by an army of German living dead."La Tumba de los Muertos Vivientes" is a lame and cheesy zombie movie by Jess Franco. This film is incredibly awful: story, screenplay, acting, dialogs, cinematography and special effects. The senseless exploitation in the beginning, with two women dressing very short Bermuda shorts is ridiculous. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Oasis dos Zumbis" ("Oasis of the Zombies")

When someone says, "I like bad movies." you can see how sincere they are by subjecting them to anything Jesus Franco has ever made. Franco films are my meditation. They seem to numb my mind more than a crate of wine and a week of network television. This movie is classically Franco. It has a plodding pace, horrible voice overs, hot women, terrible lighting, deliriously bad camera work, a script written by a chimp, varying and disconnected ambient noise... Christ, Jess Franco is terrible and shamelessly I adore his films. They have the feel of a twelve year old with his first camera. His childishness is abound in this and really, all of his movies. He is a testament to tenacity (and hot women).