I Spit on Your Grave (1978) -review by Gorehound

 

This classic celluloid makes me wet!

The movie starts off with the main character Jennifer. She is a writer getting away from the city to concentrate on her new novel.

She is a ‘tight little number’ according to the white trash, degenerate, retards she runs into at the po-dunk gas station.

She arrives at her getaway cabin which is most relaxing, just what she is looking for.

This is when these guys decide to pay her a visit. They believe her to be the right bitch to deflower their retard friend. Only they didn’t know just who they were fucking with.

The degenerates, Jonny the leader, Stanley, Andy, and the simpleton Matthew, break into her house and the fun begins. This is followed by rape, revenge, and tons of gore.

It has about a thirty minute legendary, horrifying, rape scene, wow!

There is bush, tits, and ass. Can’t go wrong there. Did I mention the vivid rape scene! For all you jungle bush pussy lovers and anal pervs this is right up your alley.

The best parts are when she comes back and tortures every single on of those sub-human fuckers in her own unique way.

I won’t give away the fun parts. Let’s just say you should NEVER rape a woman.

She will fuck you up and spit on your grave!

This movie is a ‘MUST SEE!’

-Gorehound

“I find myself imitating Matthew’s voice quite a bit. I love a good whiner. “I didn’t even get to cum”. My favorite line from him however is when she tells him she’s from New York and he replies with “you come from an evil place”. The millennium edition DVD has a really great commentary by Joe Bob Briggs that is really worth listening to. It’s a guilty pleasure in my collection. What can I say? the complete lack of a musical score (there is NO music in the movie) was an interesting choice, adding tension with sound and dialogue, I’m a sucker for that beautiful Connecticut forest location, and country bumpkin characters are always amusing to me.” -Horror Aficionado Lawrence Tolbert

Header (2006) review by -your discerning Director.

Based on Horror writer extraordinaire Edward Lee’s novella of the same name.

“What’s a header?”

Header starts off when Travis Tuckton is let out of prison. Being despot poor he searches out his grand pappy Jake Martin in the woods for some shine and reminiscing.
Stewart Cummings works long hours to support his ailing wife. It helps that Cummings is on the take as he runs the rounds of an Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agent in the redneck backwoods. On account of his wife’s serious and ambiguous health condition Cummings feels justified in his nefarious ethics.

“Grand Pappy what IS a Header?”

As Travis and old Pappy get to talking they churn up old crazy feud stories and even more psychotic debauched tales. Travis is intrigued and decides it’s something he wants to get involved with for himself.

Bizarre and violent murders turn up. The Police get involved (cameo by Edward Lee and another horror writer icon Jack Ketchum.) ATF Agent Cummings starts taking more risks for bigger bribes.

That’s all you get folks. This movie picks up quick and it’s something you have to see to believe!

Acting:

The lead acting isn’t the best. I felt the actors tried too hard and didn’t pull off their roles all that well. The theme of this movie is so outrageous you’ll only pay passing attention to the sub-par acting.
Dick Mullany who plays Grandpa Jake Martin was awesome. He nailed his role. He is fantastic as nonchalant thick accented hick of sadistic delights. He talks about a header and feuding violence like he is talking about his mama’s chili recipe. He fully capture’s Edward Lee’s vision of the old double amputee diabetic in the novella. Bravo Mr. Dick Mullany, Bravo.

Gore:

Header is as graphic as it can get away with. They don’t, and of course can’t, show all of the violence. It’s still brutal and very disturbing. Even the most jaded and discerning gorehounds won’t ever forget what a header is. Or the shenanigans Travis and Pappy intimately engage in.

Sex:

There is quite a bit of sex/rape and some nudity, T & A, but none of it’s hardly erotic. Stewart Cummings jerks off near a lake, the man has to relieve the stress of his cognitive dissonance.

Directing:

This being a low-budget flick I felt the director did a decent job. I certainly never felt it was directed poorly. The only thing director Archibald Flancranstin could have done was try to get better acting from his protagonists.

In the end:

Header is a wonderful little gem. As I mentioned it’s based on one of Edward Lee’s stories. He is my personal favorite horror author. He writes what is termed hardcore or Splatterspunk horror. It’s way to disgusting for mainstream bookstores and is sold mostly as e-books or low print trade paper backs. I’d love to see all his books made into movies. There is a ton of great and original content there to make great horror movies.
Header is a fine example. The story is totally sick, there are twists and surprises you probably won’t see coming, and it ends in madness. Just like you want in your gross out horror movies. I think Header is horror dynamite, a solid MUST SEE.

-The Director

As far as I can tell Amazon might be your only sure outlet to find this movie. It’s well worth the money.

GutterBalls 2008 -review by the Director

Gutterballs…

Brought to you buy the clever Canadians of Plot Digger Films (the same company that gave birth, or aborted, Hanger)

Game on:

A couple of rival bowling teams meet in a bowling alley after hours for a little bowling royal.

Strike:

Gutter balls is a highly politically incorrect offense movie. It’s brash and violent. It’s cruel and stereotypical. A brutal rape leads to graphic violence, campy comedy, and rowdy sex.

It’s a mystery serial killer, pick em off one by one, plot.

The gore hits very hard. Gorehounds will be grinning ear to ear with a sadistic smile. Especially during the DIY sex change operation. Not to mention there are a lot of dangerous places to get hurt in a bowling ally, ball returns, pin setters, and pin polishers.

 

It’s sexy including a hot chick in a super high mini skirt bending over to bowl and showing off her naked clam.  You’ll have to watch that scene near the beginning to unleash the fourteen year old boy in you.

The acting is quite bad and zany at times securing it’s B-horror status and cult potential.

She evidently doesn’t like rubber dongs, you’ll see why…

Even though it might be easy to criticize gutter balls for it’s bad acting and low budget feel. It’s a brave film chock full of splatter gore, nudity, and way better than paint by numbers multi-million dollar budget horror.

-The Director.

Battle Royal review by the Director

 

What the fuck kind of school field trip is this?

In this fantasy world a fascist government deals with juvenile disobedience by passing the BR Act. 42 ninth graders are taken to a remote island where their sadistic teacher and the military force them to engage in the ‘Battle Royal’. They have 3 days to kill each other until one stands as the victor.

How the BR works:

Each student has a collar put around their neck. If they refuse to kill each other or there is no winner in three days this happens:

Asian exploding blood, awesome I know.

The kids are of course shocked and terrified but they have little choice. Forced at gun point and terrified from that little demonstration each student is given a bag containing some food and water and a weapon or some item that they may find useful. Some of the kids get a machine gun, others get a fucking useless paper fan or a frying pan, though most get something deadly including poison, a knife, sword, hand gun, sickle, as so on.

Sex:

These are minors so there is no sex or nudity. The girls are wearing semi-short skirts if you are a into statutory rape.

Gore:

Welcome to a gorehound buffet. We get a brutal death every few minutes. It never lets up and it’s explicit. Chopped off heads, multiple shootings, stabbings, and fountains of blood. You won’t be disappointed.

Even though the movie is shocking in nature, kids killing each other and over the top gore, it’s actually a really good movie. Some of the students form alliances, some commit suicide, some go Rambo, some alliances break down.

There is teen romance, there is a constant feeling of innocents coming from these kids. I found them all, though at times stereotypical, engaging. I felt bad for some and I found myself rooting for them to survive.

Two ‘transfer students’ are thrown in the mix. One is a total psychopath and elected to be a part of this BR insanity.

The other was last year’s previous winner. He has experience and seems like the obvious favorite, being older and toughened from his previous BR experience. I won’t spoil how things unfold for him.

Acting:

All the kids do a great job. I couldn’t find anything to be critical of.

The teacher oozed psychosis, well played sir, well played.

Directing:

As with nearly all Asian films I watch their is a clear feeling of perfectionism. Great attention is paid to everything so the film looks great and is comfortable to follow. Of course this flick isn’t overly predictable, you’ll just have to see what happens.

Final Grade:

This is one of the best movies I’ve ever scene. It has heart, terror, visceral gore, a great plot, and an engaging story. Sometimes the teen romance get’s a little over the top but the movie always gets quickly back to the savage battle to prevent it from being cheesy. Some of the kids back stories are hardcore. The villainous kids are scary. The story has a believable feel even though the plot is realistically ridiculous. This is a great flick you will have a fun time watching. It’s pure horror entertainment. If you haven’t seen it, get to it now!

I give it an +A

-The class Director

I Spit on Your Grave 2 review by Webb

I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)

I really want to tell you face to face my review on the new I Spit on Your Grave 2. But…. it would sound to creepy. I will say is that it was a good movie. It could have gone by a different title.

Decent acting.

A different story.

The kill scenes were not as good as the first 2010, I Spit on Your Grave.

Still I enjoyed the movie.

   -Webb

I spit on Your Grave (2010)

 I spit on your grave (2010)

(Disclaimer) It’s hard not to compare this to the original but I shall try to review it on it’s own. Comparing remakes to the original is tired and cliche in my opinion, but that is only my opinion and I’ll keep it to myself.

Hock: 

Successful writer (I say successful since she has a fucking book published. Do you comprehend how inconceivable that is to accomplish in today’s writers market?).

Jennifer Wells (Sara Butler) rents an isolated cabin to work on her second novel for a couple of months. Some completely amoral psychopaths make her acquaintance at a gas station. Jennifer is lost. Country stud and scary as fuck Jonny Miller (Jeff Branson) points her in the right direction. Jonny flirts and gets rejected, burn.

And now spit: 

Jennifer finds her spacious cabin on the river. She drinks wine, sun baths, smokes poke, and oh yeah works on her book. Being a writer is fucking hard ass work. Nothing like it is in the movies, at least not this movie. This movie has nothing to do with writing. It has to do with sadism and revenge on the grandest scale. So how does it go there?

The fat pervert of the maniacal foursome has himself a video camera and he has been peeping and recording Jennifer.

Matthew the retard of the group has also been to Jennifer’s house and fixed her sink and toilet. Jennifer is so overjoyed she spontaneously kisses Matthew on the cheek. After which he bolts out without getting paid.

The four creeps decide Matthew is lying there is no way a hot city girl like her kisses a buffoon like Matthew. Enamored by the smoking hot bod on the video recording the boys decide to pay Jennifer a visit. I won’t go into detail. They torture and exploit her. She escapes and things only get worse. Jennifer is violently raped by everyone. She is raped up the ass and it ain’t pretty. This is a brutal exploitation movie, not a ‘date movie.’

After the horror she endures Jennifer wanders around naked while the sadists follow and makes jokes. Before her rapists and violators have a chance to blow her head off she falls off a bridge. The Sociopaths are worried. They can’t find her body. After a month, things get strange.

Jennifer isn’t dead and she is a cold hearted bitch scorned. She one by one exacts revenge in the most creative yet horrifying ways on her attackers. She sneaks around, none of them know what is coming until it’s too late. She is merciless, just as they were with her. She spits on their graves.

GORE: 

The movie is chock full of gore. It’s drawn out torturous gore. Not like a splatter fest but every bit as violent. I’m seasoned and some of the kils made me twitch. Gorehouds will feel like it was time well spent after watching this one.

SEX:

The is a fair amount of nudity. Sara Butler shows everything, most of the nudity is her during rapes and her walking around filthy in a state of shock. Unfortunately nothing is sexy or erotic unless to are a sicko sadist and like rape. Ladies get Jeff Branson’s naked butt, but nothing sexy in that scene.

Acting:

I enjoyed Sheriff Storch (Andrew Howard) he played a terrible villain. The best villain are the ones you really hate. This two sided bastard was great.

Sarah Butler played her role pretty believable. She looks awful and really in excruciating pain during the anal rape scene. She looks out of her mind during the aftermath. She plays the scorned revenge bit well.

Drecting/Production:

I personally would have shot the movie more graphic, shown more. There is a lot implied, though it is strongly implied, it could have been a tad more graphic. That being said, there is only so much you can show without it being pornographic. I also thought the nudity was a little scant for this type of movie.
I did like that the movie looked didn’t show off it’s budget. It looked simple. That made it seem more tense. The director never let up. It was always tense. There is always a sense of loathing throughout the film. Some of this was accomplished with subtle ambient music or none at all.

Final Rating:

I couldn’t find this movie to be about anything except exploitation on a grand scale and revenge on a grander scale. The revenge kills are the highlight of the movie. I want to stress that again, the revenge kills are brutal and tough to watch! They are the main reason to watch this exploitation film smutt. 

I never felt attached to any of these people. I did feel I experienced the movie cerebrally and it was extremely unsettling. It’s a true horror movie. Maybe you could coin it torture porn.  Yes, it has some plot holes. How did Jennifer survive a month with next to nothing? None of that is explained. How was she able to get the jump on all these seasoned country boys who knew these woods? I suppose the element of surprise. They think they see a ghost when they see her.

Bottom-line, I don’t know how you could see this movie for anything else than what it is. The type of movie you cringe through and feel like taking a shower after or have hot sex then take a shower.

So how do I rate it? How the hell do I not think about the original when I rate it?

-The Death Director.

   

A Serbian Film reviewed by your Director

         

Premise:

Ex-porn legend Milosh from beautiful Serbia is lured back into the biz for an enormous some of whatever Serbians call dollars, Dinars according to the all wise internet. I don’t know the amount but I’m thinking it’s millions. He won’t do child porn, he is assured its something much more special and it’s a revolutionary porn genre so there has to be plenty of secrecy about what they are doing. After a couple Jack Daniels Milosh and his smoking hot wife (she looks just like Jean Grey from X-Men) go for the money, a fat check of Serbian dinars.

The Big Picture:

A Serbian Film has always been precious to me because I got to see a bootleg copy from Synapse Films about a year before it was release in the USA. I didn’t even think it would get an American release. There are two critical scenes cut from the US version. I was greatly disturbed because of this. Those two scene are two of the most horrific in the movie. One can still caliginously discern what is going on in those scenes. I think with those two scenes cut, the film can’t be fully taken to a superlative hight of traumatic repugnance.

Milosh begins showing up for his scenes in this secretive porno. The charismatic Director speaks to him through a receiver stuck in his ear. Milosh is directed what to do. Milsoh finds the scenes bizarre, though he is always pretty drunk and drugged. Fuck it he whats that massive pay off. The money will set him, his wife, and son up for the rest of their Serbian lives. Milosh, endearing legendary porn star and family provider. Isn’t it admirable to see a man with his priorities in order. On a side note when Milosh catches his young son of about 8 or 9 watching a porno video featuring the boy’s father plowing the hell out of some blonde bimbo on a motor cycle, he takes the time to illustrate sex and masturbation. It’s the most bizarre illustration of adolescent sexual maturation I have ever heard.

Getting back to making the new porno genre, Milosh has seen no script so he really doesn’t understand what is going on. He continues to drink Jack Daniels like water. His perception becomes more warped. He becomes more easily manipulated by the Director. He is later given cow viagra, that little trick makes him an enraged sex machine with a foot long cock that could hammer nails into wood.

He finds himself in several scenes with a young girl present. She looks about twelve dressed as Alice in Wonderland. The film becomes increasingly taboo.  Milosh has second thoughts and want’s out but it’s to late. He jumps out a window. No matter, he is sucked into making more ‘Art’ as the Directer likes to shout over and over.

I won’t say too much about the movie because I don’t want to spoil the experience. It keeps pushing your threshold. After about 25 minutes into the movie you are quite hooked, you are no longer just watching, now you are experiencing A Serbian Film. Hold on tight, knuckles white as roasted turkey breast, A Serbian FIlm just keeps getting better.

Acting:

Milosh performs his heart out. He fully embraces his role and is totally believable. All the acting is on target. I especially loved the charismatic Director. Your eyes are glued to him every time he is on screen. I never felt the acting ruined any scenes.

Gore:  

We are treated to a few mucho grizzly scenes. A decapitation, a live skull fuck, and some gut churring rapes. There is a totally sick scene you will miss in the American cut, if you get an uncircumcised version look out.

SEX: 

This bitch is full of it. Softcore sex, necrophilia, anal, masturbation, cumshots, and off screen vaginal mutilation. Bouncing big boobs, full frontal male and female nudity. Last be NOT least Milosh’s huge cock hanging down to mid-thigh and fully erect pointing at the camera dripping in blood. I could do chin ups on that monster if I could do chins ups anymore. Vicious ass rape and fresh corpse fucking I’ll emphasize again.

Final Rating: 

A Serbian Film is an especially evil horror movie. It’s one of those sadistic movies you need a shower after watching. Even after the shower you still feel dirty, like your soul is polluted. It’s like after you eat a super sized value meal at McDonalds. That sick feeling you feel after, like why the fuck did I just do that to myself?

The movie has a great plot. At times scenes may seem random but fear not gorehounds, everything ties together in the end. You may need to contemplate and wrap your noggin around what you just witnessed.

Superb movie, brutal ending, well acted, lots of raunchy sex and Milosh’s endlessly consuming Jack Daniels night and day. A Serbian Film is original and shockingly taboo.

The movie is in Serbian, not dubbed into english, so you will have to read the dialogue. The speaking scenes are not so rapid fire that reading is a chore. I preferred hearing the actors real voices anyway.

 -The Death Director

 

Big Doll House -review by Director

 

Not really a horror movie, more of the exploitation genre. These were popular in the 1970s grindhouse scene before women got all liberated and shit. No more Suzy homemakers of the 1950s. I don’t really care about the feminist movement cause I’m not a female; I have a ball sack. Women can always wrap you around their pinky finger by with holding sex or nagging you into a slave. This has it’s consequences but I digress.

Big Doll House is a women in prison movie, W.I.P., as they are affectionally termed.

What I was most surprised about BDH is how beautiful the lead girls were. Even the warden and her Hugo Weaving doppelganger head guard are all eye candy.

I was also over joyed to see Sid Haig play the fruit and contraband vender to the lovely prison sweeties.

A young and thin Sid Haig, still a great actor and hilarious. He owned the camera even with his pock marked acne scared mug. It was before he had grey hair, he even had hair, though he was loosing it.

It also stars Pam Grier and her name in the movie is Grier, kinda weird.

We get all the traditional WIP scenarios.

A sadistic warden who enjoys torturing the babes.

Guards on the take.

Hair pulling cat fights that end up in the mud.

Shower scenes, sorry fellas no bush in this one, just lots of juicy melons on the fruit cart, kidding, and of course natural boobies in the showers complete with attentive pencil eraser nipples.

Some pithy erotica, but no lesbian sex.

Scanty clade chicks blasting machine guns in a shoot out with female and a few male guards.

Not any gore, just a shank in someones neck.

The Acting was decent. Except for Sid Haig, did someone say Oscar.

The movie looked good, well lit, good production value and directing.

It’s a classic all the way, hot girls, and Sid Haig make this highly watchable.

On the other side of the coin, it didn’t push the boundaries of WIP movies like others have. It’s not what I would consider a hardcore and tasteless WIP flick. My spider sense was telling me Doll House was trying to be silly. If I was in a prison this clean with these babes I wouldn’t want to leave. They even had Heroin!

-Director                           

Cannibal Holocaust reviewed by Das Director

      Cannibal Holocaust

 

The Rep:

Banned in multiple countries! The alleged most controversial movie ever made. The film crew was arrested after production. PETA advocates are foaming at the mouth in disgust. Is this real cannibalism? Will I see naked natives eating human flesh? Perhaps you’ve seen the pictures.

Is it all shock and hype or is there a good movie buried under all this fluff?

Let’s get out the fork and knife: 

Ok, ok, so what is this shocker about? Four asshole adventurous film makers head off in the deep Amazonian jungle. Three fucktard dudes and one immodest chick in search of a lost cannibal tribe still around in this modern age.

Referred to as the green inferno for good reason, the amazon is a suffocatingly hot and dangerous place. It’s not really an exaggeration to say everything and everyone is trying to kill each other. If it can’t kill them, they kill it.

Our fearless quartet of film makers never return from the jungle. Did they find the cannibals they were looking for? A doctor of anthropology wants to find out.

He finds a couple really cool guides to lead him into cannibal country.

They expose him to various stone age tribes, animal cruelty, and some tangy native hairy gash. The guide reminds me exactly of Sid Haig in the Big Doll House. The guide uses cocaine, which is totally easy to get in the inferno I assume, to control the cannibal guide to lead them to his crew. Of course he also snorts a little himself all bad ass, off a buck knife blade.

The Doctor eventually finds the film cans lost from the four ass clown explorers. Trading the film cans for some shit like a watch and gold plated lighter the doctor skips back to the big city to enjoy some serious amateur cannibal exploitation films.

The group of professionals including the doctor, a lawyer, some TV executives, sit back and it’s show time. Here begins the second movie. Cannibal Holocaust is really a film within a film. The second movie is the lost film footage shot by the four douche bag film makers. Keep in mind this was done decades before Blair Witch or Cloverland made a movie appear to be shot by the actors. I have to give Cannibal holocaust major props for originality.

The Group shoots plenty of film of each other being cocky, constantly making dumb ass jokes, and mocking everyone. I never found myself endeared to them. As they trek along and come across various tribes they to go mysteriously fucking bananas. The heat, the jungle, the images they have seen, the isolation, frustration, it’s anyone’s guess. They engage in various forms of exploitation, setting villages on fire, gang rape, and other things I’ll leave out. At this point they have made enemies out of the cannibals. Not a smooth move stupid fucks, they should have had some coked up guides with them.

GORE:

 

Cannibal Holocaust doesn’t fail to deliver the goods. There is a great deal of graphic violence in the movie. You will see some really gross actual animals death. One word, ‘turtle,’ you have been warned.

The foreign films don’t seem to bother with fake rubber organs, I think these crazy actors are eating real guts. A violent giant stone dildo rape and bashed head. Severed arms, heads, ripped open guts, slimy organs being chewed on, genitals lopped off, skin bit off, you are in the gorezone.

I am always amazed at these jungle movies. The special effects look amazingly good and these guys had to set up these effects in a horrible atmosphere. Yes, that’s an impressively real looking penis copped off, it’s almost more impressive it was done in the amazon jungle.
Don’t worry about gore, it’s plentiful.

SEX:

We get copious male and female full frontal nudity.

 

A voyeuristic soft-core sex scene.

Two rapes, one is adultery punishment and features a giant stone dildo soaked in blood as it rips apart a hairy native puss. A longer gang rape, if you are a sicko and that tickles your pickle.

Music: 

Unfortunately the movie had some 1980s funk, keyboard, or disco type music. This dated the movie. That being said there was a theme song. The theme was chilling and you knew when you heard that tune something disturbing was coming. To me that was perfect use of  theme music.

Directing: 

Fantastic job! This is a horrible environment to shoot a movie in and you would never notice as you watched. All the first half of the movie, the footage of the doctor is professional looking, quality film making.

I am amazed at films that are shot first person. It seems like a truly difficult way to tell a story.  It’s done well here. You won’t have any problem. I found these moments in the movie the most engaging. I didn’t want to look away and miss something.

Final Rating:

Cannibal Holocaust really is a great movie. Holocaust means: any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life. Success was achieved. This is a true horror movie and all fans of the genre should see it, hell, buy a fucking copy. It’s a right of passage.

The theme of this film seems to be ‘look how awful these stone ages fucks are, and yet modern man is no better.’ Everyone is trying to exploit something from this movie. The Doctor, the TV executives, the daring film makers from the second half, the natives in the jungle, even the production company who produced Cannibal Holocaust. Us for watching it for enjoyment, and on and on. A long chain of exploitation. Don’t get depressed it’s all fiction. Except for that fucking turtle, poor bastard.

              It left me dead….

 -Za DiReCtoR

Tombs of the blind dead review by Lawrence S. Talbot

Tombs of the blind dead 

In 1972, Armando De Ossorio directed the first of four films in his delightfully creepy blind dead series. The resurrected Templet Knights might be the scariest zombies ever created and this film may be one of the most influential horror films of the 1970’s.

In a European castle in the middle of nowhere, the Templars, a fictionalized version of the real Templar Knights, are resurrected when the sun sets. Being horrible sadists in life, the Templars were burned at the stake and their eyes were eaten out by crows, resulting in their blindness. Nightly, they return from the grave as shrouded skeletal figures and feed on the blood of the living. Thought they cannot see, they locate their victims by sound.

An unfortunate woman decides to spend the night in the ruins and is feasted upon by the ghouls. Eventually, her friends venture  to the castle hoping to find her and end up having to fend off the relentless undead Templars.

Though the pacing of the film is a bit slow and it’s very short on plot, Tombs of the blind dead more than delivers when it comes to mood and creepiness. It’s also one of the first european horror films to combine graphic violence with sex, becoming a true exploitation classic. What makes the movie so memorable are the Templars themselves, the magnificent and eerie locations, and the haunting musical score.

The Templars aren’t nearly greasepaint smeared ghouls like most undead in films at the time. They are completely skeletal and shrouded in hoods and rotting medieval garb. Coming in droves, like an army, they slowly shamble along, reaching out their skeletal arms and relentlessly listen for their victims. They are inescapable and unstoppable, and in their reaper-like are hoods are like death itself literally creeping up. One can run for so long, but the undead fiends will eventually get you. To up the ante, the Templars ride on undead horses and carry swords in pursuit of their victims. More than just mindless flesh eaters, they are sadistic in nature and occasionally add sexual torture to the mix. As a result, the Templars are some of the most nightmarish and memorable creatures in the annals of horror. I honestly can’t say enough about them.

The movie was filmed in a crumbling Spanish castle which serve as possibly the most sinister, creepy sets ever put to film, being further augmented by a chilling score composed mostly of chants. The film contains a high level of eerie atmosphere, making Tombs of the blind dead is an unforgettable film experience.

It was followed by three sequels: Return of the evil dead, The ghost Galleon, and Night of the sequels. I would highly recommend the second one as well.

 -Lawrence S. Talbot