Oasis of the zombies

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Movie
German title Oasis of the zombies
Original title La tumba de los muertos vivientes
Country of production Spain , France
original language Spanish
Publishing year April 21, 1982 ( France )
March 1, 1983 ( Spain )
November 5, 2001 ( Germany )
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jess Franco
script Marius Lesoeur (as AL Mariaux )
production Miguel Tudela
Juan Couret
Daniel Lesoeur
music Daniel J. White
Jess Franco
camera Juan Soler (as Max Montiellet )
cut Claude Gros
occupation

Oasis of the Zombies ( La tumba de los muertos vivientes , or L'abîme des morts vivants ) is a horror film by director Jess Franco from 1983, which was made in a Spanish-French co-production. The Spanish film production companies Marte Film Internacional and Diasa as well as the French Eurociné were responsible for the production.

The film was released in several different versions and, depending on the version, contains a different soundtrack and other supporting actors. In the Spanish version , for example, Franco's long-time partner Lina Romay and Eduardo Fajardo play , who have been replaced by Henri Lambert and Myriam Landson in the French, international version .

action

During the Second World War gets a gold transport of the German Wehrmacht , an association Rommel's Afrika Korps , on the forced retreat into an ambush of British troops under the command of Captain Blabert. The location is a small oasis in the North African sand desert, where a bloody confrontation breaks out. Everyone involved is killed, only the British commander survives seriously injured. He is rescued by a compassionate sheikh, treated like a friend and finally nursed back to health. The married officer enters into a scandalous love affair with the ruler's young daughter, which in turn results in an illegitimate son: Robert. After the end of the war, the aging man decides to stay in Tripoli and no longer to enter the site of the massacre, which the locals have avoided, because the damned souls of the dead are supposed to be up there.

North Africa in the present. The lost gold treasure arouses the desires of adventurous treasure hunters again. Kurt Meitzell, a German, financed a two-person expedition team to rescue the Nazi treasure, but he does not know its exact whereabouts. So the unscrupulous man turns to the aging ex-officer Captain Blabert, to whom he appears to offer a partnership in order to get his private records. In reality, however, the financier does not intend to share the presumed six million US dollars with Blabert. He finally murders his unsuspecting business partner and steals his maps. Then he goes to that desert oasis. Meanwhile, news of his death reaches Blabert's son Robert, an English student living in London. In the documents of his deceased father, the young man finally discovers notes about the German treasure trove. Without further ado, he decides to go on a treasure hunt with three fellow students, Ronald, Ahmed and his girlfriend Sylvia.

At some point the four-person German expedition team led by Kurt Meitzell reached the legendary oasis, where hosts of the undead leave their resting place every evening to kill the living. The fallen soldiers mutated into zombies have been guarding the treasure for decades and atoning for any outrage. They kill the expedition participants and seriously injure Kurt. At the same time the four students arrive in North Africa, where they soon make the acquaintance of Professor Conrad Denicken, along with his attractive assistant Erika and a documentary film duo. The meeting finally enables the travelers to encounter the hospitable Sheikh Mohamed Al-Kafir, who only reluctantly leads the small group to the oasis and warns them again about the damned place. The young people ignore the warning and go on a treasure hunt.

In the oasis they find the battered corpses of the two documentary filmmakers, as well as the injured professor with his also injured assistant Erika. Without any sympathy or emotion for the dead and despite all warnings from Erika, the young people try greedily to look for the gold with primitive means. Unfortunately, at dusk, the living dead rise from the desert sand and decimate the troubled treasure hunters. Only Robert and Sylvia successfully defend themselves against the approaching creatures until they fall powerless into the desert sand the next morning. At the end of the film the zombies disappear with the sunrise, the lovers are saved by the sheikh. Robert seems to have been purified by his deed.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the horror film by the "frequent filmmaker Franco", which was almost 20 years late for the video premiere, offers "at best involuntary comedy" and "could very well continue to slumber in the realm of the undead."

“As charmingly whimsical as Franco's fetishized film monsters can be, on a bad day he manages like no other that every brick is more exciting to look at than the sex on the screen. In general: The entire film has the energy level of a cement bag from front to back. Perhaps Franco thought while cutting together that we would be so captivated by the events that the bumps won't bother us at all. "

- Christian Genzel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086486/releaseinfo
  2. ↑ Oasis of Zombies in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  3. ^ Oasis of the Zombies In: wilsonsdachboden.com from July 2, 2007.