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This is an old 70s Italian movie with awful dubbing in the English version. Even ignoring the terrible dubbing this film is pure trash. The pacing is pitiful. The actors are just awful. The zombie effects are, even by the standards of the 70s, laughable. There are no actual scares, no actual gore and the slowest death scenes I have seen in ages.

The third of the Blind Dead movies is also the worst. Unlike the previous two entries it is not scary for a moment and doesn't conjure up much in the way of atmosphere.At the beginning of the film three swimsuit models are being photographed by a woman who refers to them as "Chico, Groucho and Harpo". This may be the movie's most memorable scene. Another model arrives and demands to know what happened to her roommate. Apparently the girl has been sent with another model on a boat out into the ocean for a publicity stunt. She and her partner can claim to have been "lost at sea". Uh huh.The girls come across the "ghost galleon" of the film's title and decide to board expecting to find help, despite the fact that the boat looks like something out of the middle ages. For as much time as the movie spends aboard the boat, very little of it is actually explored. Why don't the characters just take a quick look around, surmise that there is nothing usable on the boat, and get off again?The girl's roommate, the bitchy photographer, a kooky academic and a couple of other people set out to find what happened to the girls and also end up trapped on the boat. The blind dead are sleeping off the previous night's killing in coffins in the ship's hold, but soon are trying to kill the remaining characters as well, while they try to make it through the night and attract the attention of passing ships.I'm not sure why this movie didn't work. I think it mostly has to do with the setting. The ship is not interesting, and apparently the filmmakers knew that, because we see so little of it. We never get a sense of it as a place that we can imagine protecting as with the church in Return of the Evil Dead, the previous movie in the series.It is a tradition for the Blind Dead films to save their best moments for the end. In the Ghost Galleon, it is far too little, far too late, and I wasn't scared as much as relieved that I didn't have to spend any more time on that bloody boat.

The Ghost Galleon (1974) * (out of 4) The third film in the Blind Dead series has some models getting lost at sea and winding up on a 16th century ship. On board they run into the Templar knights. Pretty soon other people are looking for the ship and the secrets that it holds.The first time I watched this movie it was on VHS under the title of HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES. I had no idea about the Blind Dead series and just found a cheap video with the word zombies in the title so I bought it. I found the movie to be incredibly awful when I was in my teens and time certainly hasn't improved this thing. Considering how good the first two movies were, it's even more shocking at how bad THE GHOST GALLEON is. Even though it features Euro favs Jack Taylor and Maria Perschy, this isn't nearly enough to save a really awful movie.There are all sorts of problems with this film but I guess the majority of it is aimed at the fact that there's really not too much going on. This film obviously suffers from its low-budget, which simply doesn't allow director Amando de Ossorio to do much. It reminds me of those poverty row movies from the 40s that didn't have a budget so they just had people stand around and talk. There's a lot of scenes like this where people just talk about boring things that make you constantly look at the clock. It certainly doesn't help that the characters are extremely boring.As for the Templar knights, whenever they're on the screen they're certainly the most interesting thing. It's really too bad they spend so much time off camera and it should be noted that they only kill one person on screen. This scene is rather effective as is the closing sequence but outside of this there's really not too much going on in this movie.

This third film of the "Blind Dead" collection begins with a publicity stunt by an ambitious entrepreneur named "Howard Tucker" (Jack Taylor) who sends two young models out on a boat into the Atlantic Ocean with the expectation that they will be found by a passing ship and rescued. However, the boat inadvertently drifts right into the path of a centuries old galleon containing the blind Knights Templar who have given their souls to Satan in the hopes of immortality. When the two models appear to be in danger of sinking, Howard Tucker decides to take his yacht to the area and rescue them. He and his passengers find the galleon but soon realize that there is more to this ship than meets the eye. At any rate, as most of the reviews clearly indicate, this film isn't nearly as good as the first film ("Tombs of the Blind Dead") of this series. It didn't allow for much character development, the script was awful, some of the special effects were too cheap and the galleon, when seen from a distance, was obviously a model. I also didn't particularly care for the raspy English voice-over for "Noemi" (Barbara Rey). But the sound effects were good and the heavy mist certainly helped to create a creepy atmosphere. Likewise, it didn't hurt to have a couple of attractive young women like Blanca Estrada ("Kathy") and the aforementioned Barbara Rey. But even so, these few good qualities simply couldn't overcome the obvious defects. Now, I personally like movies of this type which were made during this period. However, unless you've seen the first two films and feel compelled to see what happens next, it might be best to skip this one altogether.