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Beautiful, moving film.

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

This fourth and finale movie in the Spanish zombie franchise The Blind Dead is sadly the worst one in a series that progressively got worse and worse from the outset.My ratings were 8, 6, 4 and now a 3 so maybe it's best that the franchise ended when it did.I really was blown away by the first film, I simply didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did and gradually became mortified upon realising that this franchise wasn't going to continue with that level of quality.The first film was original, atmospheric, well paced and genuinely fascinating. Sadly they simply ran out of ideas and it all fell apart.This fourth movie tells the story of a doctor and his wife who move to a beautiful coastal village only to discover that girls are being sacrificed to the Blind Dead. Though the concept is solid, the delivery falls flat.You barely see the dead at all, the execution is flacid and it breaks my heart to say it simply isn't very good.The Blind Dead collection had all the tools to be the stuff of legends but for me will be remembered as squandered potential.The Good:Couple of okay ideasCast are competentThe Bad:Novelty is gonePoorly madeReally quite dullThings I Learnt From This Movie:When sacrificing a woman its best to get her boobs out first, because reasonsDead templars like to give their victims crabs

Night of the Seagulls (1975)*** (out of 4) The fourth and final film in the series has Dr. Stein (Victor Petit) and his wife Joan (Maria Kosti) coming to a small fishing village and being turned away by the locals who don't want them there. It turns out that every seven years for seven straight days, the Templar knights return from the grave and the locals must sacrifice women to them.NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS is one of the most entertaining entries in the series, which is pretty amazing and especially when you consider how awful the third movie was. It's clear that director Amando de Ossorio wanted to make good for that film because this one here gives you a pretty good story, some nice gory special effects and characters that you actually like. Technically speaking this isn't quite as impressive as the first one but it's still very good.I think the best thing going for this movie is once again the Templar knights. I've always loved the actual look of the monsters and once again they really deliver. I love their decaying faces and this film also gives you a lot of great gore including an ending that I'm not going to ruin but it packs a great little punch. The atmosphere that was so thick in the first two isn't quite as memorable here but I thought the director did a very good job at building up the mindset of this small town and their fears.Fans of the Blind Dead series often call this a good comeback but it's much more than that. In fact, I'd argue that NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS is underrated in regards to how it is looked at not only in the series but in its place in Spanish horror.

Doc and wife move to secluded country home to take over for previous doc. Immediately, a halfwit hunchback comes into picture, and wifey starts hearing noises outside. Ceremonial processions on the beach at midnight, couple of murders lead them to think town is cursed. Sexy Lucy is abducted, doc and wife decide to leave and go for authorities, until nitwit shows badly beaten. Skeletal Knights Templar corpses rise from ocean, abduct girls, kill them, they come back as seagulls. Doc tries to save sexy Lucy, they escape. Plot has something to do with every seven years, seven girls are killed for seven days by 'horsemen of the sea', (hyperbolic nonsense overload there. Eight is always too many, but six always isn't enough, so it is always seven years of this, seven that, seven times seven, blah blah blah blah blah) Lucy has to escape, Doc and wifey help and try to take nitwit with them. They hide in the castle, a la Night Of The Living Dead. Corpses storm the castle, before being set on fire. Doc, wife, and sexy Lucy escape on horseback, Lucy cant ride horse, falls off, is caught and sacrificed.Damned, she was hot, too.These unsuccessful heros then go to cave and destroy the dead's idol to "end all this horror", horsemen rise from their tombs again as their idol is destroyed.Well photographed on an appropriately eerie and atmospheric location, but only semi-logical and slowly paced.

A doctor and his wife open his practice in a traditional coastal town, where they are met with distrust and hatred from the locals. The couple soon find out that town harbours an ancient evil - offering resident women for sacrifice to the zombie dead Knights Templar then to be eaten by crabs.Although only connected by the Knights returning to life Night of the Seagulls (La Noche de las gaviotas) is the fourth and final zombie Templar film from Director /Writer Amando  De Ossorio. Although it takes about 20 minutes for the Knights to rise from their graves in the seaside town, Night of the Seagulls is the faster paced of the bunch. This borrows from H. P Lovecraft, clearly Dagon has influenced this instalment.There's more fog, more eerie music and the dreamlike visuals come thick and fast, odd townsfolk, zombie knights on horseback and screaming seagulls.  There are fewer leads, the couple and the village girl are adequate enough and there are plenty of worn and old faces on display, Amando De Ossorio throws in the obligatory slow 'village idiot' that is hounded by the community.Debatably I maybe being to critical here but as a standalone film it works better if you haven't seen the other Blind Dead films, but for those familiar with them it's old trodden ground, a remake of a remake, that's it hard to enjoy fully without fresh eyes.The dubbing and seventies jumpers aside this last Blind Dead retains it's creepy atmospheric factor and trades the better sets for some character development.  Technically it's put together well but the closing act with a siege on the a house has been done and despite some good makeup effects is somewhat anti-climatic. That said, it redeems itself with the church showdown and conclusion.All in all a mix bag of enjoyable bones.