Oasis of the Zombies
by Jesus Franco
Our Price: $37.99
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $8.00 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Eric Viellard, France Lomay, Jeff Montgomery, Manuel Gélin, Myriam LandsonDirector: Jesus Franco
Cinematographer: Juan Soler
Cinematographer: Max Monteillet
Writer: Jesus Franco
Editor: Claude Gros
Producer: Daniel Lesoeur
Producer: Marius Lesoeur
Writer: Ramón Llidó
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Oasis of the Zombies
Movie Review: This one creeps, mesmerises and flows, o so quietly, but still goes straight for the kill...
Summary: 5 Stars
This zombie movie is according to most people one of the worst ever made and I don't agree. I really can't get enough of this one, and I certainly don't mean this in any sarcastic way. As a mater a fact, I have nothing with zombie movies really, except with the teriffic punk-spoof "Return of the living dead" - and this one, "Oasis of the living dead" (as my own VHS edition is still called.)
So what's wrong with it then, hey?
Let me post the opposite question as an answer: so what's to be liked about this then, hey?
I like it's amateuristic-looking aproach: it gives you that delicious documentary-feel. This is mainly thanx to the constant neuroticly zooming-in of the camera; first it's irritating, I admit, but after a while it becomes part of that swinging cinema-variété style, and you start to appreciate it, that is of course, if you're on the same radio-frequence here as I am.
Then you have this wonderful eerie organ tune, which is as simple and effective as the theme music of such flicks as "Halloween", "Suspiria" and "Phantasm".
Then there are the sublime moments of quietness throughout the movie, in which only sounds of nature is heard, like wind or birds. Together with the locations, from worn-down houses in nameless sun-blazed town, to the dessert and the sinister oasis itself, it works.
And talk about music: how about that sound that can best be described as "blood flowing through veins", like some chirurgical instrument is pressed against someone's arteries. It's all clever stuff the makers came up with when they knew their budget (which was, I guess, no budget at all) could not provide them with a full blown orchestra - and thank God for that.
It's an overall eerie tone and dense, hot-blazing atmosphere here. The effect of all this is hightened by the zombies themselves who do not howler, scream, run, jump or act in any frantic way - they just emerge from the sand, they simply "are there" all of a sudden, and then they overcome, and allmost seduce in stead of maim.
The result is still death and mayhem, but almost in a hypnotic sense.
(And you can quote me on this one.)
Similar DVD Movies
A Virgin Among the Living DeadImage Entertainment; Release date: 2003-03-11; DVD
Best price: $39.38
The BurningSony; Release date: 2007-09-11; DVD
Best price: $7.17
Price in other shops:
Island of Lost Souls (Criterion Collection)IMG; Release date: 2011-10-25; DVD
Best price: $16.27
Price in other shops:
Nightmare: 30th Anniversary EditionCODE RED ENT.; Release date: 2011-07-26; DVD
Best price: $14.49
Price in other shops:
Female VampireImage Entertainment; Release date: 2000-08-08; DVD
Best price: $29.99
Erotic Nights of the Living DeadMedia Blasters; Release date: 2004-06-29; DVD
Best price: $14.60
Price in other shops:
Cannibal ApocalypseRelease date: 2002-03-19; DVD
Best price: $39.95
Man from Deep RiverMedia Blasters; Release date: 2004-11-30; DVD
Best price: $3.68
Price in other shops:
Shock WavesWEA DES Moines Video; Release date: 2003-09-30; DVD
Best price: $9.59
Price in other shops:
Zombie LakeImage Entertainment; Release date: 2001-03-27; Published: 2001-03-01; DVD
Best price: $22.95