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The Blind Dead

Wɔfrɛ no bio: La noche del terror ciego
SiniAwufoɔ a wɔnantew1968 kɔsi 1999

The Blind Dead are the Knights Templar revenants of four Spanish films by Amando de Ossorio. Eyeless, they track prey by heartbeat in an abandoned medieval town on the Portuguese border. Peter Dendle credits the first film with a fresh mythology and unforgettable zombies.1

Fa ko
Ɛdii kan puee
1972
Released 1972
Fibea ho adwuma
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
Amando de Ossorio
Wɔyɛɛ no wɔ
Spain, Portugal
Deɛ ɛde ba
Wɔnkyerɛɛ aseɛ da
Executed Knights Templar rise from their tombs at night; the film's page gives no mechanism.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A victim of the knights revives as one of the undead.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • fire (for their victims)
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

They are blind because birds pecked out their eyes while their bodies hung on the gallows1

2

They find the living by the sound of a heartbeat1

3

Their director said they are not mindless like zombies and feed like vampires1

4

Three sequels followed between 1973 and 19751

5

Helped start the Spanish horror boom of the early 1970s1

6

A US re-edit, Revenge from Planet Ape, tried to pass it off as a Planet of the Apes film1

Fibea

  1. Tombs of the Blind Dead - Wikipedia

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Ma dɔm no aduane. Dawurubɔ nni hɔ, trackers nni hɔ, onipa baako na ɔtua ho ka. Akyɛdeɛ ma ɛkɔ so wɔ intanɛt so.Ma akyɛdeɛ

Berɛ koro: 1968 kɔsi 1999

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