Boring, long, and too preachy.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Blistering performances.

Tombs Of The Blind Dead is the first in the Blind Dead franchise, a Spanish series of zombie movies that have evaded me for a fair while.I'm glad to say that it really impressed me and is highly similiar to Italian movies of the same ilk also from the same period.It tells the story of a girl who is murdered in an abandoned ruined village once occupied by Templars. Her friends set about investigating and discover the villages horrifying secret.What makes this stand out is that not only do our zombies have origins but that they have personality. Robed, skeletal, blind and horse riding! This is original stuff and it works wonders.Ontop of that the movie is well scored, looks fantastic and really delivers on every front. Because of this I can't wait to get stuck into the remaining films.The Good:Looks greatQuite original for it's genreWell madeBrilliant finaleThe Bad:Couple of ropey looking momentsCould have been longerThings I Learnt From This Movie:Porcupines are sweet and suave

A beautiful Spanish woman discovers a relationship blossoming between her best friend/former lesbian lover and potential new boyfriend, gets jealous, and hops from the train they are traveling on together.Now, stuck, alone, in the middle of nowhere, she wanders into an abandoned castle- and explores it- with hopes of finding someone that might help her get back to the city.However, all she does is manage to awaken a horde of Zombie Templar Crusaders...Her friends do head into the old village to look for her...only to discover she has already been killed; tortured and murdered..The locals recount tales of how the old castle was formerly a Templar Priory, that is now haunted by malevolent spirits which can rise from their graves.The dead (well, zombified) young woman's two friends decide to investigate the mythology behind this place further, and manage to uncover it's disturbing history.Through flashbacks, we are swept into a sadistic misogynist's wet dream, as we are shown how beautiful young virgins were being subject to horrific torture at the hands of the Templar Knights.This includes a particularly shocking scene, in which one bare breasted young woman is whipped, and sliced up with swords, while bound to a cross, as part of a ritual bloodletting and sacrifice, meant to endow the Templar participants with eternal life. Hence, why they are able to rise from their graves at will.Later, there is an explicitly vicious rape scene, that is just as shocking and horrific (arguably, even as shocking as the one in Irreversible). And to make things worse, the rape victim gets slut-shamed by the rapists girlfriend.At least they both get their comeuppance...yikes...Paltry special effects aside, this film really is quite disturbing. There is no waking up to happy endings from this misogynistic nightmare. A not-so-friendly reminder that you gotta fight for your life to survive. A true horror.6.5 out of 10.

(Credit, IMDb) In the 13th century there existed a legion of evil knights known as the Templars, who quested for eternal life by drinking human blood and committing sacrifices. Executed for their unholy deeds, the Templars bodies were left out for the crows to peck out their eyes. Now, in modern day Portugal, a group of people stumble on the Templars abandoned monastery, reviving their rotting corpses to terrorize the land.I try to abstain from using worn out clichés, but this movie really warrants it. Tombs of the Blind Dead moves as slow as molasses, failing to revitalize my interest in any way throughout. The zombies themselves are pretty cool looking. They are knights that ride horses, except they do it in a contemporary setting. I loved the creepy village with the castles, the photography is fantastic, it's just that they could have done so much with this movie, but they bored me to tears instead. I watched the uncut version of this film. Strangely enough, it didn't seem uncut to me. There isn't much gore to be found. Zombie bites and a woman being burned alive are a couple of the seldom found highlights. There are some plot holes as well. As a couple of reviewers have rightfully mentioned. Why does a female inexplicably jump off a train into trouble? That's like throwing gasoline on a fire. The acting isn't worth mentioning. Everyone is pretty awful, even if they were subtitled. Any more praise? We get some awkward lesbianism, so if you're into soft-core things, that might please you. Overall, I vehemently despised this film. It has all the potential in the world, but they crap all over it. It's an overrated snooze fest if you ask me. I have three more sequels to watch. I hope they are at least marginally better than this film, and add a modicum of energy3/10

I'm not a big fan of Eurohorror because it tended to elevate style and flash over substance. Amando de Ossorio, however, was a refreshing exception to the rule: he knew what was frightening and that's what he focused on, keeping the superfluous stuff to a minimum. Nowhere is his firm grasp of the genre's fundamentals more evident than in "Tombs of the Blind Dead". This is truly a meat-and-potatoes horror film, loaded with atmosphere and well-crafted scary moments. Ossorio favored the slow, deliberate buildup of tension, so it's a long time before you see the hooded Templar mummies gnawing on human flesh; first you have to witness the María Elena Arpón character's arrival at the abandoned monastery, her uneasy exploration of the ruins, and that's when you realize you're watching a master at work. When the horror is finally made visible, "Tombs" becomes an edge-of-your-seat viewing experience, and some of the images (the Templars on their phantom horses, galloping in slow motion across an eerily beautiful Portuguese landscape, and the grainy still photo that Ossorio made the brilliant decision to end his film with) will remain with you literally for years after you've seen the movie. Any hack can make a horror film, but very few directors get it right. Amando de Ossorio was one of them. If you're serious about your horror--if you've had it up to here with sexy vampires and mindless zombie shoot-'em-ups, and want to be chilled to the bone--then you should see "Tombs of the Blind Dead".