La tumba de los muertos vivientes (1983)

Country of Origin: Spain / France
Year of Production: 1981
Running Times: 84 mins 32 sec (Spanish video)      94 mins     95 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Marte Films Internacional / Diasa Prod.Cin. S.A.
Produced by: Daniel Lesoeur
Production Manager: Antonio Mayans

SCRIPT
Screenplay: A.L. Mariaux (real name: Jesus Franco)
Story: Ramón Llido

DIRECTION
Director: A.M. Frank (real name: Jesus Franco)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Juan Soler
Assistant Camera: Angel Ordiales

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Jesus Franco
Assistant Editor: Lina Romay

MUSIC
Music: Pablo Villa (real name: Jesus Franco)
Music Recording: Eurosonic

SOUND
Sound Post Production: Arcofón S.A.

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Manuela Garcia Fraile

CAST
Manuel Gélin (Robert Blabert)
Eduardo Fajardo (Colonel Kurt Meitzell)
Lina Romay (Kurt's wife)
Antonio Mayans (Sheik Mohamed Al-Kafir)
Javier Maiza (Captain Blabert)
Albino Graziani (Professor Deniken)
Miguel Aristu (Ahmed)
Doris Regina (Aisha)
Jesus Franco (zombie (uncredited))

SUMMARY

A group of teenagers travel to a remote North African oasis in search of the World War II German gold buried there. But when they arrive they are attacked by the undead corpses of the German soldiers.

CAPSULE REVIEW

Quite the worst thing you'll ever see. Even by Franco's low standards, this is appalling rubbish with not a single redeeming quality. Not even bad enough to be entertaining.

AVAILABILITY

France
Video Distributor: Les Productions du Tigre

Netherlands
Video Distributor: Sunrise

Spain
Video Distributor: Video Fan; Divisa

USA
Video Distributors: Wizard; Filmline; Transworld
DVD Distributor: Image (ID9107BIDVD)

TIMELINE

1983
March
1: Spain - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

The ultimate confrontation with the flesh-eating living dead!

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

El desierto de los zombies
Oase der Zombies - West German title

LINKS

ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGE VERSION
L'abîme des morts vivants (1981) - Note: French language version shot at the same time but with a different cast.

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
I giardini dei diavolo (1971)

SEE ALSO
Shock Waves (1977)
Le lac des morts vivants (1980)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Fangoria no.204 (July 2001) p.61 (USA)
DVD review

Spaghetti Cinema no.14 (August 1986) pp.12-13 (USA)
review

Unifrance Film Bulletin 1982 (France)
review

BOOKS

Creature Features Strikes Again p.283
credits, short review

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.14
credits, short review

Obsession - The Films of Jesus Franco p.147
credits, synopsis, review

Video Watchdog Book p.96
note

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

deserts, gold, military, nazis, oases, teenagers, zombies

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009