Its a sign of how mind-numbingly boring Oasis Of The Zombies is that its own producers attempted to enliven the proceedings by cutting in action sequences lifted from a different movie and failed miserably. Look up Watching Paint Dry in any film guide and you will find a review of this tale of WWII soldiers who encounter Nazi zombies in the African desert. Hiding under the pseudonym A.M. Frank is director Jess Franco, no stranger to plodding exploitation films, though here his direction consists of removing the lens cap from the camera. No-name actors spout meaningless gibberish about finding themselves in a succession of sequences so interminable youll be convinced that Franco just set up the shot and walked away. On a side note, its perhaps worth noting that this film was his reaction to the similarly-themed Zombie Lake, another dreary film about undead Nazis. Compared to Francos efforts, though, it looks fantastic.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
