Return of the Evil Dead
Return of the Evil Dead is a 1973 film from Spain, directed by Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez, running 101 minutes. reelscum files it under fantaterror and zombie.
- Year
- 1973 · 1970s films
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Director
- Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (44/100)
- Also known as
- Return of the Blind Dead · The Return of the Evil Dead · Mark of the Devil 5: Return of the Blind Dead · Mark of the Devil Part V: Night of the Blind Terror · Return of the Evil Dead
Defined in the glossary: Fantaterror, Zombie
Blind Dead again, this time besieging a whole village. The best of the four.
The best of the four Blind Dead films. The eyeless Templar corpses rise on the anniversary of their execution and besiege an entire village during a festival, trapping the survivors in a church as the dead close in slow motion outside.
Amando de Ossorio expands the scale from the first film's isolated horror to a full siege, and the sound design (the hoofbeats, the creaking) does as much as the visuals. The Templars remain the best monster design of the decade.
Spanish horror at its most iconic. Start the Blind Dead here if not with the first.
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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.
The cycle in depth
- 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.
Night of the Seagulls
The Blind Dead ride out one last time. A quiet, sad closer to Spain's best monster series.
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.
Nightmare City
Zombies that run and use guns, decades early. Incompetent in enjoyable ways.
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.
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
Franco at his dreamiest. Distributors added zombies later without telling him.
The Living Dead Girl
Rollin's best late film. Melancholy where the Italians were loud.