Tombs of the Blind Dead
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Movie Reviews of Tombs of the Blind Dead
Movie Review: AGHHHHHH AGHHHHHHH AGHHHHHH
Summary: 3 Stars
The first of four(don't bother with the sequels)Spainish flicks
shot by de Ossorio concering the Knights Templar:witchcraft
practicing monks who were executed centuries ago and now rise
from their mass grave as blood-drinking ghouls on horseback.
Being blind(their eyes have been eaten out by crows you see)
they find their victims through sound. With the slow/mo
directing and the famous soundtrack(AGGHHH...AGHHHHH)
you are in for a real GHOUL time(sic)
Movie Review: Hilarious
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is hilarious. I wasn't sure to rate it 10 or 1.
The beginning Intro to the "mysterious knights templar" is nothing less than retarded.
It starts off so quickly with the main characters meeting at some resort in Lisbon and you get the feeling that just maybe something could happen.
Theres an allusion to a lesbian affair with the two main female characters and some heavy flirting from the male lead with one of them but the only things without clothes in this one is a bunch of mannequins.
The acting is atrocious and the story seems like it was written by a nerdy metalhead in high school who's played too much dungeons and dragons.
Why would the girl in the beginning just jump off the train alone in the middle of nowhere, walk up to the ruins of some monastery roll out her sleeping bag and tune in jazz on her transistor radio? Well of course the silly zombies kill the camper and she soon turns into a zombie.
One of the funniest scenes is when she gets "killed" by the timid gal in the mannequin factory. She manages to set her on fire The burning effect is a thing to contemplate. (I read that the director objected to the undead templars being refered to as zombies because that meant they were just mindless creatures. Like it matters!)
Another good one is the scene in the morgue where that strange guy with the frog pulls the sheet from the corpse and there's some old lady there instead of the couple's friend. I'm wondering if that was an attempt at comic relief but I really just think it was the director's idiotic idea of a fright.
So the moral of the review is this...
If you still think that old satanic cults coming back to life to suck the blood of their victims is scary and intriguing, then check this out. Alternately...if you're a seasoned horror fan who enjoys all the "facets" of the genre, then check this out.
Movie Review: Some nice atmosphere, but that's about it...
Summary: 2 Stars
Tombs of the Blind Dead is a largely forgotten movie that has a bit more to offer than than most Euro-zombie trash. A runaway camper stumbles across the Tombs of the Blind Dead, the remains of a castle inhabited by the living corpses of the Templar Knights. The Templars were a black magic practicing cult who now stalk their victims by sound alone as the blind dead. When the camper's friends arrive at the tombs in search of her, they too learn that the terrifying legend of the blind dead exists indeed.
Tombs does have some of the calling cards of the low budget, European zombie outing. It moves at a glacial pace, has a barely existent storyline, dialogue that's hardly worth dubbing, the works. Among the few reasons to bother checking Tombs of the Blind Dead are the atmosphere created by the eerie looking Templars and their tomb, as well as the occassionally creepy music score. The great shots of the Knights riding on horseback in slow motion is another unique touch that helps Tombs stand out.
Tombs of the Blind Dead is definetly an acquired taste. Perhaps worth a look for fans of Lucio Fulci's movies, but even then approach with caution.
Movie Review: Tombs of the Blind Dead
Summary: 1 Stars
Typical Eurotrash cinema,Throw in bad acting and lesbianism and you have a European Movie,I wonder what would have happened had it been Moslem Barbarians as the Undead? The only thing worth it is the gregorian chant and music.
It reminds me Of The Blatant Anti-Catholicism in City of The Living Dead and that filmmaker's other movies which also have the same recurring theme.Knights Templar were only in trouble at first due to the Pressure of Phillip The Fair and then later The Church admitted such,But what is the most easiest Religion to Pick on?
You Certainly won't see Night of the Living Calvinists coming back from the dead and burning the altars and killing priests and nuns nor the Night of the Living Secular dead of the French Revolution doing the same thing,These Enlightened Euros,Liberals,Marxists and Anti-Clerical snobs are too busy giving us Great fiction.
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