Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)

Original title

La noche del terror ciego

Directed by

Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez

Genre

horror film, mystery film, zombie film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Portugal, Spain

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

R

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 170 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of travelers encounter vengeful undead Templar knights who rise from their tombs to hunt the living. The knights are blind and track their victims by sound.

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What happens

Tombs of the Blind Dead (also presented as Revenge From Planet Ape) is a 1972 Spanish-Portuguese horror film written and directed by Amando de Ossorio. Its original Spanish title is La noche del terror ciego (lit. English: The Night of the Blind Terror). The film was the first in Ossorio's "Blind Dead" series, spawning three official sequels: Return of the Blind Dead (1973), The Ghost Galleon (1974) and Night of the Seagulls (1975). Its success helped kickstart the Spanish horror film boom of the early 1970s. Ossorio has stated that Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's Gothic horror legend El monte de las ánimas (1862) and George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) both influenced the creation of his film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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