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A mad journey into the mind of the depraved!

A mad journey into the mind of the depraved!
Recommended for devolved primates only!

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES (1982)


 This zombie flick starts out with two hot gals getting attacked by desert-dwelling undead creatures who pop up out of the sand. From there it takes us into a time-warp where minutes turn to hours and everything seems to stand still while we get hit with boring dialogue, crappy battles scenes and not enough in the way of the expected flesh-eating goodness that you might expect. There is one slightly amusing scene where a guy gets bitten by a zombie and then has the slowest, most over-exaggerated death scene ever. This film is credited to Jess Franco and if he is responsible it's one of his duller movies with none of the obsessive/pervy sexiness of a lot of his films. Also it's hard to believe Franco turned down making ZOMBIE LAKE because of it's awful script and then decided this would be a good project to take on. On the positive side this was shot on actual film stock and I would rather watch this again than have to sit through any of the 10 billion shot-on-video homemade shitpile excuses of zombie movies that have been made over the last 20 years. This is also a good film to watch if you're feeling a little under the weather since you will get plenty of shut-eye. AKA THE TREASURE OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE OASIS OF THE LIVING DEAD & BLOODSUCKING NAZI ZOMBIES(might be one of the greatest alternate titles ever!)
 There's an alternate Spanish-cut of this that features Lina Romay that has only been released in Spain and I've never seen it..

4 comments:

  1. This is the first Franco flcik I have ever seen. It left a really bad taste in my mouth. It took me years to trust the man who made Oasis Of The Zombies. Youre right, its one of his worst

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  2. It seems like he put zero effort into this thing. I imagine he just did it for a quick paycheck.

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  3. Yeah because he has made movies that are way cheaper then this and they still came out much more interesting in the end.

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  4. Yeah and they almost always have that sleazy-creep vibe that he instills in them. Outside of a couple of opening shots of girls in short-shorts this one doesn't even give us that.

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