While nearly all of the Italian zombie films were one shade of awful or another, Tombs is a good film, even a great one: one of the highlights of 1970s Spanish cinema and among the very best examples of its oft-indefensible genre.
Tombs Of The Blind Dead (1971)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:5
Rotten:3
Average Rating:4.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: The scent of a nubile camper awakens the corpses of the ancient order of Templars--a horde of 13th century crusaders blinded and executed for heresy--from their 600-year slumber. Revived and... The scent of a nubile camper awakens the corpses of the ancient order of Templars--a horde of 13th century crusaders blinded and executed for heresy--from their 600-year slumber. Revived and hungry, the sightless zombies rely on their ears to hunt down their victims, and unlike most undead, who stumble about in slow-moving hordes, the Templars ride horses and even trains in pursuit of the sweet, sweet flesh of the living. In the hands of a lesser filmmaker, this premise would come across as laughable, but Amando de Ossorio effectively creates a chilling, creepy movie. Sequel: RETURN OF THE BLIND DEAD. [More]
Starring: Lone Fleming, Ceasar Burner, Maria Silva
Starring: Lone Fleming, Ceasar Burner, Maria Silva
Director: Armando De Ossorio
Director: Armando De Ossorio
Screenwriter: Armando De Ossorio
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Reviews for Tombs Of The Blind Dead
Paces along with a sense of business-as-usual obligation when it would benefit most from turning the trash meter up to eleven.
an elegiac counter-vision that is much more fanciful than Night of the Living Dead dand wholly continental.
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