Return of the Blind Dead

Infobox Film
name = Return of the Blind Dead


caption = Film poster under original Spanish title
director = Amando de Ossorio
producer = Ramón Plana
writer = Amando de Ossorio
starring = Tony Kendall
Fernando Sancho
Esperanza Roy
Frank Braña
José Canalejas
music = Antón García Abril
cinematography = Miguel Fernández Mila
editing = José Antonio Rojo
distributor = Blue Underground
released = October 29, 1973
runtime = 91 min
country = Spain
language = Spanish
budget =
preceded_by = Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
followed_by = The Ghost Galleon (1974)
amg_id = 1:41088
imdb_id = 0068232

"Return of the Blind Dead", also known as "Return of the Evil Dead" and "El Ataque de los muertos sin ojos" (in original Spanish: "Attack of the Dead Without Eyes"), is a 1973 Spanish horror film written and directed by Amando de Ossorio.

The film is the second in Ossorio's "Blind Dead" series.

Plot

This sequel features a small town's annual celebration, which is interrupted by the arrival of blind sword-wielding zombies on horseback. The town's mayor, at first, refuses to believe that these ghouls are real (citing a long-standing local legend), but when virtually all of the inhabitants of his town are slaughtered, he bands together with a fireworks technician, his estranged lover, and several other townspeople in a futile attempt to survive the violent onslaught.

Trivia

In this film, the Templars are shown having their eyes gouged out or fused closed by fiery torches. This contradicts the legend of the first film, which claimed that the Templars' eyes were pecked out by birds as their dead bodies hung from the gallows.

Films in the "Blind Dead" series

* "Tombs of the Blind Dead" (1971)
* Return of the Blind Dead (1973)
* "The Ghost Galleon" (1974)
* "Night of the Seagulls" (1975)

External links

*imdb title|id=0068232|title=Return of the Blind Dead
* [http://www.blue-underground.com/dev/quicktime/rtnevildeadsm.mov English language trailer]