loveablejohn-26233 This movie was mediocre at best as the dubbing was atrocious and on some shots of the ship they obviously used a model but the other special effects appeared to be well done. The acting and the script could have also used improvement but it did have some tense scenes which is why I gave it 3 stars.

Platypuschow Horror of the Zombies otherwise known as The Ghost Galleon is the third movie in the Blind Dead franchise and presently the lowest rated on IMDB.I loved the first film, I found the second rather disappointing and this deserves its place as the lowest rated. It tells the story of two women out on the ocean who run into a huge galleon. Upon investigating they fall afoul of the Blind Dead and their employers come looking for them.The ship setting was a great idea and had limitless potential but sadly the whole thing is a real sorry swing and a miss.For a start everything looks shoddy, the sfx have taken a step backwards and look terrible. The ominous charm of the franchise is all but gone and truth be told very little actually happens and our ocularly challenged undead friends are barely on screen at all.I can't believe such a great franchise is nose diving so badly, I can only hope the finale ends it on a high but it's not looking good.The Ghost Galleon is a weak entry and an all round pretty lame film.The Good:Some great ideasThe Bad:Timeline is still confusingVery dullLacks everything that made the first movie so effectiveSome beyond bad sfxThings I Learnt From This Movie:A petrol fueled motor boat cannot move out the way of slow moving incoming trafficReligious scientists, still the most baffling oxymoron

Leofwine_draca The third in the series of BLIND DEAD movies from Spanish director Amando de Ossorio is a step down from the superior first two films in the series, but still packs a punch for those with a fondness for Euro horror. This time around, the setting of the movie is a creaky old galleon, as a bunch of unlikeable characters are picked off one by one by those old bearded skeletons. As usual, the most limiting factor for this kind of film is the budget, which here means that the galleon itself is quite clearly a miniature model, floating around in a small tank of water and looking absolutely fake as a result. It's a real shame when the pyrotechnic finale shows the individual flames burning the ship to be about twice the size of it! Otherwise, we're in for business as usual, as the poorly-dubbed actors find themselves at the mercy of the gory ghouls. Speaking of gore, there's only actually one sequence in the movie which offers blood for the sadistic viewer; in it, in which a blonde woman is beheaded and her limbs eaten in a feeding frenzy by the ravenous horde. In the rest of the 'attack' scenes, which resemble a cross between NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (in the inevitability of the ceaseless, shambling zombies) and Universal horror flicks of the '30s (in the cobwebby, Gothic surroundings), the focus is on atmosphere and it works wonders. De Ossorio builds a real sense of Gothic foreboding and the undead Templars are as eerily effective as ever, their impact highlighted by creepy moaning on the soundtrack and their appearance – think rotting skeletons complete with wispy beards and tattered cloaks.The casting for this film consists of the usual bunch of actors and actresses who appeared in many '70s horror flicks coming from Spain. Maria Perschy (EXORCISM) was a Naschy regular and provides more glamour than the other hopeless models put together. Manuel de Blas (HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE) starred in small roles in countless Spanish movies, whilst this film marked Carlos Lemos' only appearance in a genre flick; playing the meteorologist he comes across as a Spanish Ian McCaskill and is the best actor in the movie. Most notable of all is the instantly recognisable Jack Taylor, a horror veteran who started off by appearing in the Neutron films in Mexico in the early '60s.THE GHOST GALLEON has a rather dull and derivative storyline, with inane scripting and lots of plot holes wherever you look. It also has some boring moments, especially in the first hour. However, these are countered by the fun elements in the latter half of the movie; although the model ship is rubbishy, the creepy interiors are sound, there are plenty of memorable scenes (including the excellent 'exorcism'), and the film contains one of the most iconic horror images out there – the superb ending in which the undead Templars rise from their watery graves to wreak vengeance.

jadavix 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.