SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Leofwine_draca 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!

Aaron1375 I was actually expecting this film to be worse than it turned out to be. Granted, it was still a pretty bad film as my score of three should attest too. Still, I was expecting it to be as bad as the abysmal "Zombie Lake". Well it almost was, but for differing reasons. Basically, this one did a couple of things better than did that film, but it managed to still be quite bad, mainly due to the fact it was boring, slow and plodded along at a horrible pace. To much story interjected in the areas where the zombies did not dwell and not enough scenes of zombies ripping into human flesh.The story has various groups of people wanting to go to an oasis where there may be gold. The catch is that the dead is said to be watching over this treasure. We are treated to flashbacks, just like in Zombie Lake, that show how Nazis ended up being killed at this oasis and we get two zombie attacks as one man goes for the treasure and then the son of another man who is killed by the first man. We have lots of story and lots of setup and maybe 5 to 10 minutes of zombie screen time.The zombies in this one are not done fantastic; however, they look a lot better than the ones in Zombie Lake did. They actually look like some effort was put into them, unlike the green face paint from Zombie Lake. They also had an interesting premise here they just do not spend enough time giving us zombie action and too much time spent on our hero's father's back story. The final zombie attack is done so horribly that you cannot tell what is happening during most of it. The attack in the middle of the film though is pretty good.So if you see this film, do not expect a whole lot of zombies. Sure, there are more zombies and zombie kills than the horribly titled Zombie Island Massacre, but in the end they could have done more zombies, less exposition. A desert zombie film was kind of a neat premise and a nice setting, but they just seemed to feel the need to explain everything to us rather than have more zombie kills. That whole flashback could have been summed up in a scroll up the screen at the beginning of the film and it would have taken maybe 30 seconds instead of a great portion of the film. So, while not as bad as I was expecting it to be, it was still pretty bad.

hendrixy6 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).

preppy-3 During World War II a platoon of German soldiers are transporting gold across the African desert. They're attacked by Allied troops and hide the gold in a remote desert oasis. Fifty years later the son of the only surviving Allied attacker goes to search for the gold with friends. What they don't know is that there are Nazi zombies protecting it.Just bad beyond belief. The dubbing is horrendous, there are endless scenes of people walking around and the pace is enough to put you to sleep. Everything moves so slowly it's just ridiculous. The zombies don't even show up until 36 minutes in the movie and, even then, there's only a little blood and no gore at all. This plays more like a boring drama with zombies just thrown in for the hell of it. At the end when one of the survivors admits that he discovered himself during the attack (seriously) I almost threw something at the TV. And if you're watching for nudity--forget it. It IS in there but it's brief and badly handled. The only good things about this is that some of the zombie makeup is good and the funeral like music is really creepy--but the movie is so abysmal and boring that nothing can save it. Even writer/director Jesus Franco fans hate this! A 1 all the way.