A B-Horror Movie Reivew of: Oasis of the Zombies (1982)

Finally an actual horror movie! This week I sat through Oasis of the Zombies, and I'm going to tell you right now: it isn't that great.

The movie is about a group of college kids that go in search of Nazi gold in a oasis, however that oasis is haunted by Zombies: the very same Nazi's that died there transporting the gold. The movie starts out like any other horror movie: with two chicks that have nothing to do with the story and are also kind of slutty. They just happened to be out in the middle of the dessert looking for an oasis, and as they walk around they start to hear strange sounds. Shortly after they are ambushed by zombies, but not before the camera followed them from behind, if you know what I mean. 

Then cut to the actual plot. There is an oasis where Nazis gold is buried, and its worth $6 Million dollars! The Nazi troops where intercepted by other troops and the fight killed everyone except for one soldier, who is the only one that knows where the gold is. This soldier is also the father of our main protagonist, who upon hearing of his father's death (yeah he gets killed by some poison) decides to go in search of this gold.

Overall the movie is really long and boring, there are big chunks where nothing happens and could had been easily cut out. The acting is so terrible! To the point were you wonder if they are even trying. The Zombies also look bad, most look like their face where plastered with paper mache, others just look bad. They also have a problem with light, most scenes are too dark to make sense of anything (although this might be because of the low quality of the film). There are also some night scenes that where obviously shot during the day, you can see the sky and its bright blue! but that just contrast with the rest of the shot, so again you can't see much. The music is also really "off" in a bad way, I felt like all music was in the wrong movie, oh well.

But this movie at least has one thing going for it: people get killed. One specially good death happens when this chick gets eaten by zombies in the first half of the movie. The zombies took the time to rip all of her clothes off before digging into her flesh, and there is one shot of meat being pulled out from her, not that great of a shot, but the gore is appreciated. All the other deaths are boring, mostly due to the poor acting and un-convincing screams. 

Final thoughts on Oasis of the Zombies: Its boring. Its hard to watch, you loose interest quickly, and to be honest the ending is not even remotely worth it. The acting is weak, the cinematography is weak, the zombies are lame, and all this adds up to a mediocre film. I did like that the camels had their own zoom-in head shots, I have no idea why I picked up on that.

Movie Score: 

• 2/10
• T (O.W.L.)