Maria Perschy, Jack Taylor, Carlos Lemos, Manuel DeBlas, Barbara Rey

Two young girls travel in a newly constructed boat at sea. This event should make a propaganda for this new construction. The wireless radio contact breaks suddenly. The search expedition comes across...( read more  read more... ) an old sail ship populated by bloody zombies. It seems there is no escape from the undead templars...

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Unrated, 1 hr. 25 min.

Directed by: Amando de Ossorio

Release Date: June 28, 1974

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DVD Release Date: September 27, 2005

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  • November 8, 2007
    For some reason, I watched ths dubbed, under the impression that the Spanish language track was not present on the DVD because this was the first of the films that did not have two different cuts in the box set. Oops. It's not awful, but it's still universal dubbing (ie, not Ital...( read more)ian style--they were all clearly speaking Spanish, I do believe) and a few of the voice actors were somewhat clunky.

    Still, that's not the issue, as I always say, when it comes to a movie like this. I'd understood that this was a lesser entry, or an unusual entry, or something of that sort in de Ossorio's Blind Dead "series," even heard it was toned down to make it more family friendly. I had my doubts by the first time I saw some blood, and those doubts came to fruition not long after. This isn't a family movie, unless your family is composed of the kind of losers who watch movies just to mock ambitious people who lack finances.

    Noemi (Bárbara Rey) is a fashion model as we open, being photographed by Lillian (Maria Perschy), who she then asks about the disappearance of her friend and fellow model Kathy (Blanca Estrada). Lillian attempts to fend her off but finds her too determined and threatened by her offer to call the police, so she takes her to Howard Tucker (Jack Taylor) who reveals that Kathy was involved in a publicity stunt to advertise his company's new boat, being stranded in the middle of the ocean to be found by someone in a major shipping channel (OK, yes, this is a truly bizarre stunt, but what the hell, I don't mind that much). Tucker and his man Sergio (Manuel de Blas) are in radio contact with Kathy and her partner Lorena (Margarita Merino) and continue to question them about the status of their "mission." The two girls are seeing no one, finding themselves in a strange heat and fog with nothing around, until they spy a ghostly ship. It bumps into them and Lorena, frustrated with their wasted time decides to investigate it to find help.

    But we know who's on THAT ship--yes, the undead satanic knights are back. I don't know if series is the right word for these movies as the only major element they all have in common is excommunicated knights who worshipped Satan, nothing else implies they are in any way connected, not even in the way Romero's dead movies are. Now, there's definitely some common threads that de Ossorio likes to ride--yes, another rape--and even some particular gags, his love for the skeletal hands prying their way out of coffins, crates and tombs being a clear favourite. It seemed, though, that the ghostly ship and its set design (simplistic but pretty effective) made for possibly the best setting for these costumes, this time letting us see the masks and so on in greater detail, which is actually not a bad thing as they're pretty good (methinks de Ossorio poured a lot of money into them in the beginning). It's nothing amazing, groundbreaking or particularly new, but it's always nice to see our (now not-so-blind) undead knight "friends" roaming around again, with a spirit a little more in line with the first film than the one immediately preceding this one.
  • October 18, 2006
    The "Blind Dead" are still creepy and atmospheric in this entry in the series but all of the drive and momentum of the early films is gone by this point and the viewer is left with a not-very-involving horror yarn on the high seas.
  • October 15, 2009
    For some strange reason I actually enjoyed this movie
  • April 10, 2008
    This movie is guaranteed to be horrible so here is some Billy Squire for your amusement:

    "Now everybody, have you heard
    If you're in the game, then the stroke's the word
    Don't take no rhythm, don't take no style
    Got a thirst for killin' - grab your vial... "

    First pers...( read more)on to name that song will get an invisible bowl of rice.
  • June 19, 2007
    Lower budget than the first two. Still has the claustriphobic terror that few movies seem to carry.
  • May 17, 2007
    FLawed and nowhere near as good as the others but certainly has its moments.
  • May 1, 2007
    Ooohhh... zombie flick.
  • April 30, 2007
    it bad ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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