Night of the Seagulls
Night of the Seagulls is a 1975 film from Spain, directed by Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez, running 89 minutes. reelscum files it under fantaterror and zombie.
- Year
- 1975 · 1970s films
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Director
- Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (47/100)
- Also known as
- Don't Go Out at Night · Night of the Death Cult · Terror Beach · The Blind Dead 4 · The Night of the Sea Gulls · Night of the Blood Cult
Defined in the glossary: Fantaterror, Zombie
The Blind Dead ride out one last time. A quiet, sad closer to Spain's best monster series.
The fourth and last outing for Amando de Ossorio's eyeless Templars, and a moodier, sadder film than the reputation of a fourth sequel suggests. A doctor and his wife take a posting in a bleak fishing village that turns its back on them, because every seven years the locals hand young women over to the dead knights who ride up out of the sea, and the screaming gulls wheeling over the bay are said to be the souls of the sacrificed. The Templars themselves remain the best monster design of the decade, still hunting by sound, still riding in that unhurried slow motion. De Ossorio winds the series down on coastal desolation rather than spectacle, and it suits them. A quieter film than the earlier three, and the right note to close the series on.
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The cycle in depth
- 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.
- Gut-munchers: the Italian zombie boom, 1979 to 1983
There was no first one. Argento recut Romero, Fulci forged the sequel, and Italy spent four years feeding the British censors.
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
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.
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Eyeless Templars on skeletal horses in slow motion. Best monster design of the 70s.
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Spanish-Italian, shot in England, and much smarter than its stablemates.
The Living Dead Girl
Rollin's best late film. Melancholy where the Italians were loud.
Burial Ground
Incoherent even by the standards of the cycle. The Peter subplot is unforgivable.
Hunchback of the Morgue
Naschy's grisliest, and the one where the rats were not an effect.
Zombie Holocaust
Cannibals and zombies at once, reusing the Zombi 2 sets and cast.
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky at his most enjoyable.
Cannibal Apocalypse
Vietnam veterans as cannibals. Sillier and kinder than the jungle cycle.
Nightmare City
Zombies that run and use guns, decades early. Incompetent in enjoyable ways.
Messiah of Evil
Made by the couple who then wrote American Graffiti. A nightmare that never explains itself.