Admirable film.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The acting in this movie is really good.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I first saw the English version of this in the mid 80s on a VHS. The shopkeeper told me that there is a prequel n sequels but not available with him. Revisited the Spanish version recently on a DVD. The movie has plenty of genuinely chilling moments (and plenty of silly ones, too) and some effectively creepy zombies (skeletal caped figures wielding huge swords), Return of the Evil Dead is worth a watch if you dig this kind of thing. The film throws in some nifty splashes of gore including some graphic stabbings, decapitation, heart removal scenes, eye burning, etc. The plot is similar to Night of the living dead. Several people holed up in a church, each making various attempts to go it alone in order to escape the blind dead who have them surrounded. Ther is a very silly scene, two people trying to sneak out from a tunnel n when one of em is beheaded by the the evil Templar standing above the hole, the other person is still standing next to the hole. The guy who played the mayor looked like Ron Jeremy. This movie may have its flaws, but Amando De Ossorio does a great job using slow-mo and an eerie score to intensify the film. The editing was shoddy. The skeletons attacking the village people n the aftermath fighting was tedious. The ending however is a complete disappointment, there's no spectacular showdown, the zombie skeletons just killed by sunlight. The ending of the first part was much better than this.

The sequel to "Tombs of the Blind Dead" is not nearly as good as the original. Although some parts were true to the original film, other parts deviated substantially. In the first movie the "zombie Templars" moved around in the daytime and were supposed to have been blinded by birds eating out their eyes. The sequel has them awakening 500 years after their death and moving around only during the night and being blinded by having their eyes burned from their sockets. Additionally they didn't seem to be as cognizant of their surroundings as in the first film. Whereas in the first movie they could hear a person's heartbeat, in this one they seemed more uncertain once a person stopped making noise. At least, that's the way it seemed to me. Also of note was the fact that Lone Fleming had a part in this film as well as the original. In the first movie she played the part of "Betty Turner" and in this one she played another character named "Amalia". And while her performances in both films were adequate it just showcases yet another discrepancy from one film to the other. In any case, there was no improvement on the special effects, the plot or the dialogue and because of the additional inconsistencies noted earlier I thought this was a definite step back from the original. Possibly worth a look if a person hasn't seen "Tombs of the Blind Dead" but somewhat disappointing otherwise.

In "Attack of the Blind Dead" on the 500th anniversary of their execution the blind Templars rise from their tombs to wreak bloody revenge on the town that condemned them.In 1473 the local villagers burned them at the stake,but not before their eyes were burned out.This 1973 film is the sequel to writer-director Amando de Ossorio's 1971 highly acclaimed horror film "Tombs of the Blind Dead".It plays like Spanish "Night of the Living Dead" with unfortunate victims holed up in the church and surrounded by skeletal Templar Knights.The images of the rotting zombies rising from their graves,the slow-motion horse chase and the images of skeletal hands coming through walls and doors accompanied by a sepulchral score comes with quite unearthly effect.The subsequent mayhem that ensues provides some of the films more gripping moments and there is plenty of gore including decapitation and hand severing."Horror of the Zombies" followed in 1974.8 out of 10.

A rural Portuguese village is preparing to celebrate the annual festival commemorating when their village overran and killed the Templar Knights who had been sacrificing its villagers. The mayor of the village on the advice of his fiancé Vivian, hires a fireworks expert Jack Marlowe, to ensure the festival is a hit, little knowing they have a past. Jack and Vivian immediately rekindle their passions in the ruins of the local abbey, where they are spied on by the village idiot, Murdo, he regales them with the gory history of the abbey and how the Templars had their eyes burned out in case they returned to avenge their deaths, which they swore they would. He tells them that the Templars will return tonight during the festival and he duly has a secret plan to sacrifice a local girl to ensure the curse of the Templars comes true. Sure enough the dead arise, and seek to avenge their deaths, they ride into town to kill all they encounter, Jack and Vivian along with the mayor and his cronies hide out in the village church and with the mayors pleas to the local authorities ignored, they must fight for their lives. Pretty decent follow up to de Ossorio's Tombs of the Blind dead, some striking Gothic visuals and just a little gore make this a sight to behold, things are also spiced up by a bevy of local beauties. The Blind Dead makeup and costumes are also very effective even if their pace is a tad slower than a comatose sloth.