Tombs of the Blind Dead

Year: 1972

Duration: 01:22:54

Directed by: Amando de Ossorio

Actors: César Burner, Lone Fleming and María Elena Arpón

Language: Spanish

Country: Spain

Also known as:La noche del terror ciego, A Noite do Terror Cego, Crypt of the Blind Dead, Die Nacht der reitenden Leichen, Hayaletler mezari, I ekdikisis ton vrykolakon, I nyhta tou mavrou thanatou, La révolte des morts-vivants, Le tombe dei resuscitati ciechi, Mark of the Devil Part V: Night of the Blind Terror, Mark of the Devil, Part 4: Tombs of the Blind Dead, Night of the Blind Dead, The Blind Dead, The Night of the Blind Terror, Vakrémület, Zombi sti nyhta tou mavrou thanatou

Description: Tombs of the Blind Dead is the first film in Amando de Ossorio’s classic horror series. This Blue Underground DVD has both the original UNCUT Spanish version and the heavily cut and re-edited American dub. According to the DVD case, all of the Blind Dead films were remastered in High Definition before being transferred to DVD. The picture quality is just about as nice as is possible on DVD. Filmed by Amando de Ossorio, the director of Return of the Evil Dead

The review: The company of two school friends and one guy with the rights to which girls are still undecided, go for a weekend break in one nice place. Already in the mood for something that they will ruin the rest of the Zombies, but … Standard tie suddenly takes a turn – one of the girls saw that the guy actively flirting with his girlfriend, jumps off the train and out in the field. No settlements around there for miles, just an old monastery, is almost destroyed. It girl and decided to stay the night. In vain she did not talk to anyone at first – some of the local, which is 700 years old this place is the tenth road bypass … Monastery was not so and uninhabited. Only Man is not pleased.

What struck me as interesting this zombie horror, so it nezaezzhennoy plot and the fact that the action takes place in the beautiful Spanish scenery and picturesque ruins of an old monastery, and not in dark catacombs, long and intricate corridors at night or in abandoned cemeteries. You’ve got to give credit to the operator. All this is complemented by an impressive musical accompaniment, which works great for creating an atmosphere of anxiety and fear. Dried up as a mummy figure Blind Dead – Templar on the screen look really scary, it does not seem to be puppets – dummy is sometimes half-decayed corpses in films of this genre. Here is what spoils the impression, so it’s mediocre acting, some inconsistencies and excesses scenario. I understand that in the 70-80’s no horror movie without the sex scenes did not do, but here it is done crudely, and the rape scene heroine conductor, at night in the damn place when zombies roam the next – it is generally beyond common sense.

The very appearance of the legend of zombies interesting, they do not occur just like that, for no apparent reason suddenly crawling out of their graves, as is often the zombies – horror movies. Although curious, why are the knights – Templars, advocates of the holy church, in foreign lands were typed bad manners, ponaprivozili with a busurmanskih crosses as a sign of Egyptian Angha, carried away with savage rites and sacrifices? Forgetting God, they got involved with the ideas of eternal life, and began to drink the blood of virgins to obtain thereof, conducting Mass in honor of Satan. Oserchali Inquisition and sentenced to be hanged all that was done. Crows pecked out their eyes. And the area around the monastery began to consider the damned. No one since then has not dwelt there, and just careless travelers have to serve them food in order to maintain the blind, the Knights of eternal life.

Tombs of the Blind Dead. They react to sound, even at the heart pounding, pounding in fear and go for it. The fugitives cavalry rushes dead horse and it looks quite creepy.

Ending to the film La noche del terror ciego is not original and is typical for films with sequels. Indeed, later in the same Amando de Ossorio were dropped another 3 film on the blind dead.

While its low budget is obvious, De Ossorio manages to keep the film Tombs of the Blind Dead on its feet thanks to an unsettling atmosphere and copious amounts of sexuality and gore that are tame by modern standards. The bloody special makeup effects are not always realistic looking, but they are effective, with a passenger-train massacre at the climax providing the coup de grâce. Other technical credits are decent, but it is Pablo Ripoll’s shadowy cinematography that stands out the most thanks to an eerie slow-motion technique that works in perfect unison with the shrill, echoey sound effects and a haunting chant-like score by Anton Garcia Abril. The performers do adequate jobs in their roles, but they all really just serve as victims to the skeletal zombies who are the real stars of the film. Another interesting movie of Amando de Ossorio is the Fangs Of The Living Dead

Ripping the movies from the Blind Dead series has been more difficult than usual, I am not sure why exactly though. In order to get the full DVD VIDE0_TS folder extracted, I had to use some tricks. I first extracted the film in File Mode in DVD Decrypter, but the resulting files would not load in any media player. Further inspection showed that some of the files in the TS folder on disc were not being copied. So, I ripped the disc again, this time in ISO read mode, and once finished, I mounted the image in Daemon Tools. From there I copied the VIDEO_TS completely using Windows Explorer. This resulted in a complete VIDEO_TS folder that is complete and playable with no hassle. I gotta admit that’s a real pain in the ass, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why DVD Decrypter wouldn’t read and copy all of the files in File Mode. If any of you out there can help me to understand this, please send me a message! Also, I have no clue why when played in VLC or PowerDVD that narrow black bars appear on either side of the image. This is definitely not apparent when I’ve played the DVDs on my HDTV. Even reading the original disc in my LG drive, the DVD plays in VLC with black bars. Again, message me if you know why and would be interested in enlightening this amateur ripper.

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