Horror Rises from the Tomb
Horror Rises from the Tomb is a 1973 film from Spain, directed by Carlos Aured, running 88 minutes. reelscum files it under fantaterror.
- Year
- 1973 · 1970s films
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Director
- Carlos Aured
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- obscure (59/100)
Defined in the glossary: Fantaterror
A decapitated warlock's head, still working. Naschy wrote it himself.
Paul Naschy plays a medieval warlock, beheaded for his crimes, whose severed head is revived centuries later to possess his descendant and resume his reign of terror. Naschy, naturally, also plays the descendant, and wrote the whole thing himself. It is one of his most atmospheric and blood-soaked vehicles.
The disembodied-head-directing-evil premise is pure gothic pulp, and Naschy commits to it completely, doubling as hero and villain. The Spanish countryside stands in for a suitably doomy nowhere.
Naschy at his most enjoyable, and a good example of the fantaterror boom.
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Written about
- Fantaterror: the Spanish horror boom, 1968 to 1976
Two cuts of every film, one for the censor in Madrid and one for the drive-in. Democracy killed the trick in two years.
On these lists
- The Spanish horror shelf
Shot twice, dressed for the Madrid censor and naked for the drive-in. The blind Templars on skeletal horses are still the best monster on the shelf.
Filed alongside
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The Ghost Galleon
The Blind Dead put to sea on a model boat in a visible fish tank. The runt of the four.
Return of the Evil Dead
Blind Dead again, this time besieging a whole village. The best of the four.
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky at his most enjoyable.
Hunchback of the Morgue
Naschy's grisliest, and the one where the rats were not an effect.
The Blood Spattered Bride
Spanish Carmilla adaptation with an unusually pointed anger about marriage.
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Eyeless Templars on skeletal horses in slow motion. Best monster design of the 70s.
Who Can Kill a Child?
Spanish, sun-bleached, upsetting. The opening newsreel is a hard sell.
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Spanish-Italian, shot in England, and much smarter than its stablemates.