Oasis of the Zombies
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Directed by | Jesús Franco |
Produced by | Marius Lesoeur |
Written by | Jesús Franco |
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Music by | Daniel White |
Cinematography | Max Monteillet |
Edited by | Claude Gros |
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Eurociné
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82 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French Spanish English |
Oasis of the Zombies (originally called L'Abîme des Morts-Vivants / The Abyss of the Living Dead) is a 1982 film directed by Jesús Franco for French producer Marius Lesoeur.
Plot
The plot involves treasure hunters who track down a lost fortune in Nazi gold in the desert, only to discover that the treasure is still guarded by the Afrika Korps soldiers transporting it, who have become zombies.
Cast
- Manuel Gelin
- France Jordan
- Jeff Montgomery
- Myriam Landson
- Eric Saint-Just
- Caroline Audret
- Henry Lambert
Release
The film has also been released over the years as Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies, El deierto de los zombies, The Grave of the Living Dead, and The Treasure of the Living Dead.[1]
Franco filmed a "Spanish version" simultaneously with the French version (under the title La tumba de los Muertos Vivientes), probably to placate Lina Romay (since the French producer had chosen other actors to be in the "real version"). That version has never been released outside of Spain, if at all.
Reception
Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle stated the film has had a negative reception, but it "presents a simple, unhurried, and unpretending appreciation of zombies and their habitat, a fresh and provocative desert landscape."[1] Ian Jane of DVD Talk rated it 3/5 stars and wrote, "It's terrible, but somehow trance inducing in its own bizarre way."[2] Gordon Sullivan of DVD Verdict wrote, "It's really a mess of tepid Eurosleaze masquerading as a zombie flick, and it doesn't even do that well."[3]
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). L'abîme des morts vivants (1981) at IMDb
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). La tumba de los muertos vivientes (1983) at IMDb
- Oasis of the Zombies a.k.a. Oasis of the Dead at AllMovie
- Negative review at Something Awful