The Spanish horror shelf

1cult

Tombs of the Blind Dead

Eyeless Templars on skeletal horses in slow motion. Best monster design of the 70s.

2cult

The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman

Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky at his most enjoyable.

3obscure

Horror Rises from the Tomb

A decapitated warlock's head, still working. Naschy wrote it himself.

4known

Vampyros Lesbos

Franco's most watchable. The soundtrack outlived the film by decades.

5cult

The Blood Spattered Bride

Spanish Carmilla adaptation with an unusually pointed anger about marriage.

6cult

Who Can Kill a Child?

Spanish, sun-bleached, upsetting. The opening newsreel is a hard sell.

7cult

Return of the Evil Dead

Blind Dead again, this time besieging a whole village. The best of the four.

8cult

Night of the Seagulls

The Blind Dead ride out one last time. A quiet, sad closer to Spain's best monster series.

9known

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Spanish-Italian, shot in England, and much smarter than its stablemates.