qmtv Story, Acting, and the English Dubbed Version is severally lacking.Good Cinematography, Scenes, Spanish Version for Gore. Best part of the English Dubbed Version is the intro with the Templars and the victim. Dubbing was OK. But it cut the sex, gore. This is unacceptable.I watched the English Dubbed Version. Then the original Spanish Version to see what was cut.The story needed work. The actors overall sucked. The character Pedro and his girlfriend and the original victim were good and entertaining. The other actors were just bad. Especially the surviving female. She was horrible. Like some other reviewers mentioned, there were characters introduced, like the professor and police that did very little. The middle section of this movie is slow, and needed a rewrite. The Templars were great, a little cheesy, but creepy. The scenery, lighting and cinematography was great. Music worked well.For the cut English Dubbed Version, I would give this a B- or C, 6 stars. For the uncut Spanish Version the rating is a B, 7 stars. This movie should be uncut and redubbed.

meddlecore A beautiful Spanish woman discovers a relationship blossoming between her best friend/former lesbian lover and potential new boyfriend, gets jealous, and hops from the train they are traveling on together.Now, stuck, alone, in the middle of nowhere, she wanders into an abandoned castle- and explores it- with hopes of finding someone that might help her get back to the city.However, all she does is manage to awaken a horde of Zombie Templar Crusaders...Her friends do head into the old village to look for her...only to discover she has already been killed; tortured and murdered..The locals recount tales of how the old castle was formerly a Templar Priory, that is now haunted by malevolent spirits which can rise from their graves.The dead (well, zombified) young woman's two friends decide to investigate the mythology behind this place further, and manage to uncover it's disturbing history.Through flashbacks, we are swept into a sadistic misogynist's wet dream, as we are shown how beautiful young virgins were being subject to horrific torture at the hands of the Templar Knights.This includes a particularly shocking scene, in which one bare breasted young woman is whipped, and sliced up with swords, while bound to a cross, as part of a ritual bloodletting and sacrifice, meant to endow the Templar participants with eternal life. Hence, why they are able to rise from their graves at will.Later, there is an explicitly vicious rape scene, that is just as shocking and horrific (arguably, even as shocking as the one in Irreversible). And to make things worse, the rape victim gets slut-shamed by the rapists girlfriend.At least they both get their comeuppance...yikes...Paltry special effects aside, this film really is quite disturbing. There is no waking up to happy endings from this misogynistic nightmare. A not-so-friendly reminder that you gotta fight for your life to survive. A true horror.6.5 out of 10.

christopher-underwood Minded to watch this again after many years, it is as if I am watching another film. I guess, previously I must have watched some dark video copy, not a bright and colourful version as is now available. Original and highly atmospheric, this is a very well executed Gothic horror and although ostensibly set in Portugal, so as not to unduly upset the Spanish authorities, this really could have come from nowhere other than Spain and in particular a Spain where the grip of fascism was finally being loosened. Most reviewers reckon the film to be a bit slow but I don't really get this. Yes, of course, the knights move slowly, magnificently and majestically so, but the film itself, whilst not a race, doesn't have a pile of uninteresting scenes which can certainly slow down the best of films. This is essential viewing anyway for the, exploitation, horror or cult fans, so ignore the detractors. If I do have a criticism, (which I do and is why I have shaded an otherwise full score) it's because I don't like anyone in the film! Except the knights, naturally, and it matters not a jot. The film works on its sounds, its looks and its own relentless sense of logic.

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.