Tombs of the Blind Dead

Amando De Ossorio

1971

The first if the blind dead series, which eventually ran to four episodes, sees the undead Templar Knights coming back from the grave to slaughter the innocent people in the area. You could call this a zombie flick, but in esssence it's not ! The director refers to them as mummies, but for me this is zombie territory all the way. Although the film doesn't score highly on the gore stakes it does contain some very strong imagery, an example of this is the scene where the girl is bound to a wooden cross and then slashed to death by the Templars. Although I personally love this film because of it's dark mood and a fantastic climax where a train load of people get wasted, it can't really be recommended to anyone but zombie fans as most others will find it a bit slow perhaps.

GORE HIGHLIGHTS

What Gore??? There isn't any that I class as gore in here, there's some blood in parts but this film relies more on the unseen off camera violence and imagination of the audience to be scary. For that reason alone this one deserves recommendation because in parts it really does hit the mark. The ending is a classic hallmark of the best zombie movies, the bad guys win!!!