
The Blind Dead
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
- fire (for their victims)
Abimaki mbala ya liboso ntango nini?
Released 1972
Oyo maziba ya sango elobi
They are blind because birds pecked out their eyes while their bodies hung on the gallows1
They find the living by the sound of a heartbeat1
Their director said they are not mindless like zombies and feed like vampires1
Three sequels followed between 1973 and 19751
Helped start the Spanish horror boom of the early 1970s1
A US re-edit, Revenge from Planet Ape, tried to pass it off as a Planet of the Apes film1
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