Tombs of the Blind Dead

2/14/2017

"La noche del teror ciego", tells the story of a legion of evil warriors who lived through the 13th century, known as the Templar Knights. These warriors wanted to live forever and the way to achieve that, was by drinking human blood and offering sacrifices to Satan. So The Templar Knights would gladly torture and use innocent maidens for their rituals and please their master. However, their atrocious deeds come to an end, when the Holy Inquisition decides to punish them, by hanging them in public. Several centuries later, in the 1970s, two girls named Virginia and Betty go on a trip together with a guy named Roger. After a pathetic soap opera incident, Virginia gets jealous of her friends and jumps off the train. Landing on a strange place, she finds shelter in some kind of forsaken fortr

5/14/2024

It's fair to say that "Virginia" (María Elena Arpón) isn't the sharpest tool in the box when she gets fed up with the flirting of her travelling companions "Roger" (César Burner) and "Betty" (Lone Fleming) and abandons their slowly moving Portuguese train in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately, she stumbles upon what looks like a ruined monastery and having built a pretty impressive fire from a few twigs, settles down in her sleeping bag for a good night's sleep. No chance. Barely have her eyes closed than things are going bump in the night. The bodies of the condemned Knights Templar buried on the site resurrect themselves and are are thirsty! Feeling a little guilty next day, her two friends try to trace her movements but are ill-equipped for what they find - especially when their horses

3/19/2025

**_“A pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades followed close behind him”_** After a young woman in Portugal (María Elena Arpón) has a horrifying experience at some mysterious ruins by a remote graveyard, her two friends try to find out what happened to her (Lone Fleming and César Burner). Big mistake. A Portuguese/Spanish production, “Tombs of the Blind Dead” (1972) was originally called “The Night of the Blind Terror” (translated from Spanish). It spawned three sequels in the next three years: “Return of the Blind Dead,” “The Ghost Galleon” and “Night of the Seagulls.” “The Ghost Galleon” is the only other one I’ve seen, which is wisely a standalone flick. This is slightly superior. The story is interesting, but it basically rips off plot elements of the Dracula sto