The Ghost Galleon
The Ghost Galleon is a 1974 film from Spain, directed by Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez, running 86 minutes. reelscum files it under fantaterror and zombie.
- Year
- 1974 · 1970s films
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Director
- Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (47/100)
- Also known as
- Ghost Ship of the Blind Dead · Horror of the Zombies · Ship of Zombies · Zombie Flesh Eater · The Blind Dead 3 · The Ghost Galleon
Defined in the glossary: Fantaterror, Zombie
The Blind Dead put to sea on a model boat in a visible fish tank. The runt of the four.
The third Blind Dead film, and the one even devotees put last. Amando de Ossorio strands two swimsuit models on a becalmed galleon lost in permanent fog, crewed by his eyeless Templar corpses, who are still the best monster design of the decade no matter what you float them on. The trouble is what he floats them on: the ship in the wide shots is a small model bobbing in what is visibly a fish tank, and no amount of dry ice hides it. The Templars still work. The fish tank does not. Completists finishing the tetralogy will want it; everyone else should watch the other three first.
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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.
Filed alongside
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Return of the Evil Dead
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Tombs of the Blind Dead
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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
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The Living Dead Girl
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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky at his most enjoyable.
Hunchback of the Morgue
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Zombie Holocaust
Cannibals and zombies at once, reusing the Zombi 2 sets and cast.
Burial Ground
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Cannibal Apocalypse
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Nightmare City
Zombies that run and use guns, decades early. Incompetent in enjoyable ways.
Messiah of Evil
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