Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

gilligan1965 I saw this as a child at a drive-in theater in the 1970s, and, found it as great as it was scary! The archaic Spanish and Portuguese architecture added to the Gothic-terror of this film!You have to hand-it to the Europeans for making so many great and early horror movies - "The Vampires' Night Orgy;" "Vampyr;" "Nosferatu;" "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari;" "M;" etc. These movies are what others have built-upon and what lead to the movies that we have today! But...the difference is, the Europeans never really held back on the graphic-gore while making these horror classics; and, they added a lot of past-history to them as well - i.e. "Mark of the Devil" (1969) (The Inquisition); and, this movie, "Tombs of the Blind Dead" (The Crusades). And, even if they weren't 'gory,' they were as scary, believable, and, life-like as hell!This movie, "Tombs of the Blind Dead," and, it's other installments, are classic horror! The dead Crusader/Templar Knights are as scary as can be; and, due to their historic background and Devil-worshiping methods that they brought back from the middle east during the religious "Crusades," they suck blood like vampires!!I give this movie a solid NINE STARS! :)

begob Girl is slain by ghouls in a ruined monastery, and her boyfriend and lesbian lover get on the case.Preposterous horror, but with nice elements. The first and last sequences are good, but the middle is a jumble of nonsense, with caricatures stuffed in to the plot's bra.Lots of horror clichés, with an especially strong dose of foxy actresses retreating very slooowly in wide eyed horror from an arthritically advancing threat. And very coy about the sex, although there is one hilarious close up on a modestly heaving breast.But the slo-mo horse chases are close to excellent, and the final one scatters the clichés to give a good ending. I bet Peter Jackson had this in mind for the LOTR, when Galadriel flees the Nazgul.Music is of its time. And I hardly noticed the dubbing - credits mention something about making it Hollywood ready in a German studio? This version was 82 mins.

MartinHafer This is a decent horror film--thanks mostly to some amazingly scary monsters. However, you should note that in the original Portuguese-Spanish production, the skeletons were NOT from the Knights Templar but from some weird little Satanic coven. This makes MUCH more sense than the English-dubbed version where they are described as from the Knights Templar. Despite the Knights being popular in fiction (such as from the Dan Brown stories), they were not Satanic nor did they have any weird codes--they were just an order of knights wiped out by a greedy French king who wanted their wealth...period. Also, they couldn't have been from the Knights Templar because the symbol on their outfit was all wrong--a red ankh (from ancient Egypt) was used in the film instead of a red cross (which is a Christian symbol).This is a film that I found the plot a lot less important than the monsters. That's because the plot had a few problems--though none made it a bad film. The film begins with two ladies meeting after many years apart. The boyfriend of one of the ladies invites the other to accompany them on a camp out--but, oddly, his girlfriend is not at all pleased. She becomes very jealous of him and stupidly stomps off the world's slowest moving train while they are headed for their camp out. Not surprisingly, she wanders into the ruins of an old abbey and soon she is killed by very cool looking zombie skeletons. While the skeletons' hands are kind of cheesy, the rest of the character design is really neat--and very scary. And, through the rest of the film, these resurrected demonic skeletons do VERY bad things! And, interestingly, the film does NOT have an ending that I had anticipated in the least--and I appreciated that.By the way, what's up with that morgue?! The attendant was MEGA-creepy and why would anyone keep a bird and a frog there?! Also, the jammed door lock in the mannequin shop was a bit of a cheesy cliché in an otherwise decent film.By the way, the DVD for this is GREAT. It had the dubbed AND original version of the film. It also has the intro to the little-known drive-in version where they stuck a very confusing and stupid prologue onto it to try, believe it or not, to capitalize on the Planet of the Apes films--and they retitled it "Revenge From Planet Ape".

deadringer22000 I have heard by several people that this is the best horror flick that was made in Spain. I wouldn't go that far, but it definitely has its high points. While vacationing one girl gets separated from her friends on a train and winds up in a remote little church/cemetery in the countryside. What she doesn't know is that a local legend involving immortal templar knights that rise from their graves are at the same location she is. You can pretty much guess what happens next. The movie definitely has quite a few things going for it: Scenery, sound use, atmosphere, but I think it has some of the coolest looking "Zombies" ever in the Templar Knights. Decked out in tattered knight clothing and looking like they actually have been dead for hundreds of years(love the full grown beards) they surely are a sight to behold and every single Zombie movie/comic/TV shows fan should see them just once. Unlike Fulci's zombies which are covered with maggots and still have some rotting flesh on them or Romeros zombies which still look like they just have been turned the templer knights have a totally different look about them that almost makes them look alien. They are more like walking skeletons but even have their own horses that they can ride it they need to cover ground fast. Yes, they are blind but their sense of hearing is top notch and they even show signs of being slightly the most intelligent of all the different classes of zombies in other films. For their scenes alone make this a film to recommend to horror fans. If you have the chance see the Spainish version. I think it is a little bit more gory than the US version.