Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

IncaWelCar In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

qmtv Slow Plot, Acting is only OK, the Templars are only OK, the kill scenes are unconvincing, the ending sucked.Very slow plot, needed more work. The acting was only OK, sucked in most part. The village idiot was the best part. The creepy town had tons of potential but it failed there. The Templars looked good, but when they swing the swords, it looks like children playing, don't swing too hard, you may hurt someone. The kill scenes were weak. The movie has atmosphere because of the cinematography and the locations. The ending was the worst. Just knock over the statue and the undead are killed off. Not good. Tons of potential but it just didn't work well. The first Blind Dead movie had issues as well, but so far that may be the best one.Rating is a C, for a B movie, or at most 5 stars for the creepiness, cinematography, and location. I originally thought that the rating would be a C or D, or 3 stars, but the atmosphere saves this film.

jadavix The last of the Blind Dead films features an absence of the scares the first two provided, but makes up for this with atmosphere by the bucketful. It is creepy as all hell, and dreamlike. A great many Euro- horror films are called such, but this is generally just a polite way of saying they are languid, boring or make no sense - see films from Fulci's mid-career, and some of Jean Rollin's early work for examples of this. Such is not the case with "Night of the Seagulls".In this Blind Dead offering, a seaside township has struck a bargain of sorts with the sightless spectres that prey on them: they will leave an offering of a young virgin girl (who else?) whenever the Blind Dead leave their tombs. This nefarious arrangement is threatened by the arrival of a doctor and his young wife, who immediately find the township strange and threatening. Only an "idiot", the village fool, reminiscent of the monobrow-having man in Return of the Evil Dead, is willing to help them.The last Blind Dead film opens with a shockingly violent scene as a girl's still beating heart is ripped from her chest. There is little violence afterwards however. There are some glimpses of bare breasts also, but nothing compared to the generally sleazy nature of Spanish horror ala Naschy and Franco.Overall, fans of atmospheric horror owe it to themselves to check this movie out.

BA_Harrison A young doctor, Henry Stein (Víctor Petit), and his pretty wife Joan (María Kosty) travel to a remote coastal area to take up residence in a rustic cottage, unaware that a nearby village is being terrorised by zombie Templar knights, who crawl from their tombs every seven years to claim seven female sacrifices over seven successive nights.The fourth of Amando de Ossorio's blind dead movies, Night of the Seagulls, is perhaps the weakest of the series, suffering from a slow-as-molasses pace, a lack of exploitative content (only two pairs of breasts and very little gore), and a general over-familiarity with the material. Offering very little in the way of new ideas, the film dawdles from one uninspired scene to the next (and in the case of the drawn out 'crab' scenes, almost grinds to a halt) until the disappointing finalé which sees the Stein's escaping an unexciting 'Night of the Living Dead' style siege at their home, destroying the knights soon after by smashing a statue in their castle lair (it's so easy when you know how!).This lacklustre effort was, unsurprisingly, the last of de Ossorio's films to feature his skeletal Templar zombies, although Euro hack Jess Franco would revive them for one final appearance in Mansion of the Living Dead.

Scarecrow-88 Final film in the Blind Dead series features a general practitioner and his wife from the city desiring to set up a practice in a seaside village, not welcomed by the peasants who sacrifice beautiful female locals to the undead Templar knights who rip away the hearts from the victims' chests as a sacrifice to their stone pagan god, drinking their blood afterward. This ritual occurs for seven consecutive nights so that the peasants can remain unharmed, but the doctor saves his maid-servant from being a sacrificial lamb with dangerous consequences as a result. The Templar knights, eyes still gouged, skull-faces, rotted robes, pursue those who ruined the ritual, surrounding the doctor's home, attempting to enter, with the goal of retrieving the sacrifice and killing those in the way. Victor Petit is the unwanted village doctor, Henry Stein, who only wishes to help those in need. María Kosty is his frightened wife Joan, who(..rightfully so)wishes to leave the moment they arrive to immediate hostility by the rude and inhospitable locals. Sandra Mozarowsky is Lucy, the local girl they wish to protect, getting them into a heap of trouble. José Antonio Calvo is Teddy, a mistreated village idiot, often beaten by his bullying village locals, who finds sanctuary with the Steins, and is their voice into why the village behaves the way they do. The main meat of the film has these four barricading themselves in their weakly protected home as the Templar knights force their way in. I consider the undead Templar knights as creepy as ever, but question the decision making of the village people who'd remain so close to such evil, even sacrificing their own to such monsters for their own safety. That and how our heroes would remain in a village living amongst people who wish them to leave. And, the doctor's persistent desire to question the people who simply wish him to get out of their sights, with his wife in constant distress and fear. My mind boggled at his willingness to remain when warnings and signs of terror were all around him. And, when Stein does interfere, the village peasants in fact do leave throwing up the obvious thought..why haven't they already left?! Why even remain in a village where evil is nearby sacrificing your own to them?! The home invasion and attempts at securing the building echo Night of the Living Dead. The Templar knights move slow, of course, considering their blind, but still manage to remain a major threat to much faster victims. This is more about presentation and atmosphere, which is director Ossorio's major strength as a filmmaker, than plot and characterization (..which have rarely been Ossorio's forte). I think fans will feel less bothered with my rantings regarding poor decision-making and plot contrivances because the Templar knights are so scary, marching towards their prey at night, swords in hand, threatening the lives of hapless victims who could not escape. Terrific Spanish location works wonders and Ossorio uses it effectively. The Templar leader plunges a dagger into the chests of the chosen female sacrifice. The seagulls, which cry at night, are said to be the spirits of those victims sacrificed by the Templar knights. Odd scenes of crawling crabs working their way towards dead female corpses left to rot by the Templar knights. And, as has been the case in previous entries in this series, the undead knights often ride horseback(..Ossorio shoots the knights on their horses pursuing their victims in slow motion, and we are treated to another sequence where the zombies rise from their tombs).