Good start, but then it gets ruined

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This proved to be the last in Spanish Director Amando de Ossorio's four-part Blind Dead series.The set-up is far less contrived than in the previous 'Ghost Galleon' (1974); instead of an ill-advised publicity stunt gone wrong, here we have the simple premise of a Doctor (Stein, no less, played by Victor Petit) and his wife (Maria Kosty) moving to an isolated fishing village. Although, why he insists on staying here to take up his post when everyone is either openly hostile, or completely ignores him, is typically baffling. And yet, without such wilfulness, where would horror plots be? Only local Lucy (Sandra Mozarosky, who tragically died not long after filming was completed at the age of 18) and José Antonio Calvo's village idiot Teddy show any friendship towards the couple.There is no denying Ossorio's skill at evoking a creepy atmosphere. Many familiar staples are here – misty graveyards, creaking doors, wonderfully isolated locations and decaying-looking sets. Every effort seems to have been made to make the seaport a closed, sinister, uninviting place. And pretty soon, the Knights Templar are emerging from their foul tombs with agonising slowness, their spindly clawed hands looking as if they could barely give you a tame stroke without turning to dust (perhaps it would have been better to dress the actors' hands, rather than provide separate twig-like appendages).The slow build-up to Lucy's final scene on the beach is excellent, very Jean Rollin-esque. Knowing what is going to happen to her doesn't make us optimistic of a less than grisly outcome. The ever-present shrieking birds from the title have a part to play too – according to Teddy, the pretty girls taken to sacrifice 'become the seagulls,' which is creepily enigmatic.Other than a fairly standard ending, this doesn't necessarily feel like final closure for these withered knights. The series could have continued. Perhaps it still might; there is plenty of mileage left in these memorably ethereal creatures.

Night of the Seagulls (1975)*** (out of 4) The fourth and final film in the series has Dr. Stein (Victor Petit) and his wife Joan (Maria Kosti) coming to a small fishing village and being turned away by the locals who don't want them there. It turns out that every seven years for seven straight days, the Templar knights return from the grave and the locals must sacrifice women to them.NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS is one of the most entertaining entries in the series, which is pretty amazing and especially when you consider how awful the third movie was. It's clear that director Amando de Ossorio wanted to make good for that film because this one here gives you a pretty good story, some nice gory special effects and characters that you actually like. Technically speaking this isn't quite as impressive as the first one but it's still very good.I think the best thing going for this movie is once again the Templar knights. I've always loved the actual look of the monsters and once again they really deliver. I love their decaying faces and this film also gives you a lot of great gore including an ending that I'm not going to ruin but it packs a great little punch. The atmosphere that was so thick in the first two isn't quite as memorable here but I thought the director did a very good job at building up the mindset of this small town and their fears.Fans of the Blind Dead series often call this a good comeback but it's much more than that. In fact, I'd argue that NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS is underrated in regards to how it is looked at not only in the series but in its place in Spanish horror.

A young doctor, Henry Stein (Víctor Petit), and his pretty wife Joan (María Kosty) travel to a remote coastal area to take up residence in a rustic cottage, unaware that a nearby village is being terrorised by zombie Templar knights, who crawl from their tombs every seven years to claim seven female sacrifices over seven successive nights.The fourth of Amando de Ossorio's blind dead movies, Night of the Seagulls, is perhaps the weakest of the series, suffering from a slow-as-molasses pace, a lack of exploitative content (only two pairs of breasts and very little gore), and a general over-familiarity with the material. Offering very little in the way of new ideas, the film dawdles from one uninspired scene to the next (and in the case of the drawn out 'crab' scenes, almost grinds to a halt) until the disappointing finalé which sees the Stein's escaping an unexciting 'Night of the Living Dead' style siege at their home, destroying the knights soon after by smashing a statue in their castle lair (it's so easy when you know how!).This lacklustre effort was, unsurprisingly, the last of de Ossorio's films to feature his skeletal Templar zombies, although Euro hack Jess Franco would revive them for one final appearance in Mansion of the Living Dead.

A doctor Henry Stein and his young wife Joan move to a remote seaside village,. Its Klein's first attempt at his own practice and despite early doubts about the village they stay. The villagers are all odd, they don't like outsiders, even the previous doctor warned them to get out. Sure enough strange things begin to happen immediately, they witness a ritualistic procession to the beach with the women of the village all wearing black hooded habits, they are leading a young girl in white, the Kleins heeding the advice they were given, do not meddle and return to their home and wait until morning to investigate. Befriending a local girl they slowly begin to piece things together, locals girls are being sacrificed to ward off the Blind Dead from the village. Night of the Seagulls improves immensely on its predecessor and is a darker instalment in the series, with a welcome return of the gory virgin slayings. The Blind Dead showing a slightly improved turn of pace as they feed on the newly disembowelled victims. The film is still lacking in some departments, with the nightly sacrifices becoming rather samey, its not until near that the pace picks up as the Dead Knights Templars advance on the village to take revenge on the Kleins. Solid entry, but its pace will turn many off.