The Spanish horror shelf

Tombs of the Blind Dead

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

The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman

Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky at his most enjoyable.

Horror Rises from the Tomb

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

Vampyros Lesbos

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

The Blood Spattered Bride

Spanish Carmilla adaptation with an unusually pointed anger about marriage.

Who Can Kill a Child?

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

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.

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

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