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.

Nigel P This proved to be the last in Spanish Director Amando de Ossorio's four-part Blind Dead series.The set-up is far less contrived than in the previous 'Ghost Galleon' (1974); instead of an ill-advised publicity stunt gone wrong, here we have the simple premise of a Doctor (Stein, no less, played by Victor Petit) and his wife (Maria Kosty) moving to an isolated fishing village. Although, why he insists on staying here to take up his post when everyone is either openly hostile, or completely ignores him, is typically baffling. And yet, without such wilfulness, where would horror plots be? Only local Lucy (Sandra Mozarosky, who tragically died not long after filming was completed at the age of 18) and José Antonio Calvo's village idiot Teddy show any friendship towards the couple.There is no denying Ossorio's skill at evoking a creepy atmosphere. Many familiar staples are here – misty graveyards, creaking doors, wonderfully isolated locations and decaying-looking sets. Every effort seems to have been made to make the seaport a closed, sinister, uninviting place. And pretty soon, the Knights Templar are emerging from their foul tombs with agonising slowness, their spindly clawed hands looking as if they could barely give you a tame stroke without turning to dust (perhaps it would have been better to dress the actors' hands, rather than provide separate twig-like appendages).The slow build-up to Lucy's final scene on the beach is excellent, very Jean Rollin-esque. Knowing what is going to happen to her doesn't make us optimistic of a less than grisly outcome. The ever-present shrieking birds from the title have a part to play too – according to Teddy, the pretty girls taken to sacrifice 'become the seagulls,' which is creepily enigmatic.Other than a fairly standard ending, this doesn't necessarily feel like final closure for these withered knights. The series could have continued. Perhaps it still might; there is plenty of mileage left in these memorably ethereal creatures.

christopher-underwood This, the fourth of the 'Blind Dead' films begins at the beginning with the knights overstepping the mark, being held to account and then they in turn seeking their own revenge. So, good for anyone who has seen none of the others but a bit repetitive otherwise. The shots of the 'Dead' (back on their horses) on the sea shore are impressive as are them clambering though the near derelict village. The setting for the sacrifice up on the cliff top is impressive, but three times? Dialogue is fine and a reasonable story unfolds with a young doctor and his wife come to a desolate village and find themselves unwanted. Along the way we find ourselves exasperated that he or she cannot see they must do this or that, or even why we did he or she do this or that. Bit silly at times, I suppose, I'm saying and this could so easily have been tightened up. The 'Dead' themselves look very good. I thought they would always look better at night but here we have daytime sequences and the effects are still great, particularly against the background of the waves on the beach. Lacks the true nastiness and visceral violence of the first two.

lastliberal Poor Susana Estrada. She is the first victim of the Knights in this film. They sacrificed her before they were killed off just to eat her heart. Believe me her heart was nothing compared to the bounteous assets she displayed for all of them to see. Is there no man among these knights? Dr. Henry Stein (Víctor Petit) and his wife Joan (María Kosty) arrive at a small village, but are made to feel unwelcome from the start. It seems the villagers have a secret ritual to satisfy the zombie knights, and they don't want any strangers interfering.I can't fault the knights for ignoring the beauty of Julia Saly; after all they are zombies now.When they interfere and try to save one of the sacrifices (Sandra Mozarowsky), the zombies came after them.It is the ending that intrigues me. I find it full of meaning, but you may not.Enjoyable movie, but not at the level of great horror.