Tombs of the Blind Dead
Tombs of the Blind Dead is a 1972 film from Spain and Portugal, directed by Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez, running 101 minutes. reelscum files it under fantaterror and zombie.
- Year
- 1972 · 1970s films
- Country
- Spain · Portugal
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Director
- Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (35/100)
- Also known as
- Mark of the Devil V: Night of the Blind Terror · Mark of the Devil 4: Tombs of the Blind Dead · The Blind Dead · The Night of the Blind Terror · Tombs of the Blind Zombies · Revenge From Planet Ape
Defined in the glossary: Fantaterror, Zombie
Eyeless Templars on skeletal horses in slow motion. Best monster design of the 70s.
The best thing Spanish horror produced, and it comes down to a single design. Executed Templar knights rise from a ruined monastery: eyeless, mummified, hunting by sound, and riding skeletal horses in extreme slow motion. It should be silly. It is frightening.
Amando de Ossorio insisted they were not zombies, which is technically true and beside the point. The film around them is standard, the Blind Dead themselves are not, and they carried three sequels.
Watch it for the slow-motion horseback attack, which nobody has bettered.
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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
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Spanish-Italian, shot in England, and much smarter than its stablemates.
Return of the Evil Dead
Blind Dead again, this time besieging a whole village. The best 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.
The Ghost Galleon
The Blind Dead put to sea on a model boat in a visible fish tank. The runt of the four.
Who Can Kill a Child?
Spanish, sun-bleached, upsetting. The opening newsreel is a hard sell.
Cemetery Man
A cemetery caretaker shoots the returning dead and falls in love repeatedly. Beautiful and deranged.
The Grapes of Death
Rollin does an outbreak. A pesticide turns wine-country villagers into oozing killers.
Hell of the Living Dead
Bruno Mattei rips off Dawn of the Dead with a Goblin score he also stole. Gloriously shameless.
The Blood Spattered Bride
Spanish Carmilla adaptation with an unusually pointed anger about marriage.
Shock Waves
Underwater Nazi zombies rise off a tropical island. Peter Cushing, John Carradine, and real dread.
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
Franco at his dreamiest. Distributors added zombies later without telling him.
Burial Ground
Incoherent even by the standards of the cycle. The Peter subplot is unforgivable.