Oasis of the Zombies

"Oasis of the Zombies" takes what could have been a good concept for a Nazi Zombie movie and fails miserably. There isn't anything good about this turkey except for a few cool looking zombies and a little bit of female nudity. But where are the Nazi zombies? The story details a cache of gold somewhere in the African desert that a group of treasure hunters are trying to locate. The treasure once belonged to a troop of Nazis who were transporting the gold through the desert during World War II. Even decades later, the Nazis rise from their graves to protect their precious gold from anyone who comes near it. The movie is not only terrible but also terribly boring. Almost nothing interesting happens until the last 20 minutes. And even after the zombies actually show up it doesn't help the film in any way. The zombies which don't really resemble Nazis burrow underground like gophers and croak like frogs. Whenever someone is finally being eaten, there is hardly any gore at all. This is ... Read more

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 Zo... Read more

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... Read more

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!!!

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....

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.