Welcome back campers to another heaping pile of Eurozombie
Week and boy this one might be an actual improvement over Zombie Lake. That being said watching paint dry and
observing how many dead bugs end up on your window sill could also be
definitely more entertaining than Zombie Lake.
Our current feature also gives prominence to shambling legions of the
former living Third Reich. Apparently
Eurohorror loved their Nazi zombies cause they are the only creatures you feel
good twice blowing away. So grab your
hiking gear, get a guide that speaks the language and yours and head off to
adventure. This is Oasis of the Zombies.
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| Hmm zombies devouring or humans rutting? |
Nazi zombies are de
craziest spoilers!!!
Our incoherent story telling starts off in the trusty hands
of Jesus Franco (AGAIN???!!!)
which opens towards the end of World War II in the African desert as a
battalion worth of men are hauling gold bullion across the outstretched desert
for safe keeping I guess, when they are ambushed by Allied soldiers. Riddled with bullets and left in the sands to
rot, only one surviving member of that Allied snipe hunt is still alive. 50 years later Robert Blabert (Manuel
Gelin of One Deadly Summer, Joy, Venus and Formula I) who blaberts to a
former SS Colonel turned treasure hunter about the gold. Colonel Meitzell (Eduardo Fajardo of Tizoc, Django,
The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge and The Brother from Space)
rewards Blabert by having him killed and proceeds to map out the location where
the treasure is hidden. Yeah the colonel
is that cold, folks it is staggering how he can tell whether he has sent a man
to his death or ordered to have his shirts laundered.
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| Ahh!! I twisted my ankle, fell in a prairie dog hole and fulfilled a stereotype women hate!!! |
Robert’s son Captain Blabert (Javier Maiza of I Do Not Forgive…I
Kill!, White Comanche, and Diamonds of
Kilimandjaro) hears word that his father had died under mysterious
circumstances, realizes it must be the treasure his father spoke often of and
sets out to find it himself. For some
inane reason this gathering of studying college of archeologists and their
professor also know of the treasure and proceed out after it as well. Enter our jiggly girls to the fray. Yes ladies I know it is a less than
flattering title I have given this particular archetype of female portrayal but
you will find it apt. For instance;
rather than keeping quiet and skulking away from the danger, they choose to
shrill at the top of their lungs and run rampantly in the wrong direction under
the cover of day for night shots.
A few critiques on the film as it was shot on 35mm Spherical
via Eastmancolor and sadly the day for night shots were so bad you had a hard
time making out actors, who the hell is being dubbed and what was zombie and
what was human. I found this to be
lengthy, choppy, poorly executed from the writing to the miniscule budget it
was given, this had no real redeeming value other than it was NOT Zombie Lake.
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| Guys, I don't see the Field of Dreams anywhere. |
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