Oasis of the Zombies (1982)

A young student heads out to the Sahara desert with a group of friends to recover the lost Nazi gold that his father died trying to find. Little do they know that a welcoming party of shitty ass looking zombies await them, ready to get sand in their underwear and blindly grope at them. The best thing about Oasis is the cover art found below. Well, that and the fact that there are zombie Nazis, which awesome in theory, but nearly unnoticeable in the film. Everything else ranges from terrible to terrible even for Eurotrash. I am always all for attempting horror films that take place predominantly in the daylight, but the problem is that it just isnt as scary as the horrors hidden in the dark. There is, however, one very memorable scene that effectively contrasts the black shadows of the zombies against a beautiful orange sunset, perfectly illustrates the title on screen. The zombie make-up itself is all pretty laughable, and though it has obviously been influenced by Fulci's Zombi 2, the undead look more in line with the goofy corpses in Burial Ground. Franco does what he does best, and churns out an craftsmanly, thoughtless cash-in reserved strictly for zombie completists.

Rating: 4/10.
Gore: 2/10. Thats about the same rating as I would give my wife making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Seriously. C'mon. This is a zombie film.