Return of the Evil Dead, the second of Amando De Ossorio's blind dead movies, is a fairly fun slice of Euro-horror, replete with the gore and nudity that one usually expects from such movies.
A mono-browed cripple with a nasty sneer resurrects a group of devil-worshipping Templar knights who were put to death by an angry mob five hundred years earlier. The zombie knights (who also ride on zombie horses!) are out for revenge and attack the ancestors of those who originally put them to death. A group of survivors seek refuge in a church and barricade themselves in, but with a long night ahead of them, how many of them will make it out alive?
With plenty of genuinely chilling moments (and plenty of silly ones, too) and some effectively creepy zombies (skeletal caped figures wielding huge swords), Return of the Evil Dead (AKA Return of the Blind Dead) is worth a watch if you dig this kind of thing. The film throws in some nifty splashes of gore including some graphic stabbings, the removal of a heart, a hand severing and a beheading (although exactly how some of the victims end up on the wrong end of the knights' swords is a little puzzling to me: the reanimated rotting corpses shuffle slower than an arthritic tortoise, cannot see and are afraid of fire!).
Decent 70s Euro horror movies also wouldn't be complete without a few babes getting their thruppeny-bits out and, sure enough, there are plenty of norks on display for the lads to enjoy; eventually, even older 'lovely' Esperanza Roy joins in the fun, briefly flashing her jugs towards the end of the film!
Despite being a little slow in places, and having a bit of a 'cop-out' ending (the sun comes up and the zombies just collapse!), Return of the Evil Dead serves up enough fun to make this one worth a go!
A mono-browed cripple with a nasty sneer resurrects a group of devil-worshipping Templar knights who were put to death by an angry mob five hundred years earlier. The zombie knights (who also ride on zombie horses!) are out for revenge and attack the ancestors of those who originally put them to death. A group of survivors seek refuge in a church and barricade themselves in, but with a long night ahead of them, how many of them will make it out alive?
With plenty of genuinely chilling moments (and plenty of silly ones, too) and some effectively creepy zombies (skeletal caped figures wielding huge swords), Return of the Evil Dead (AKA Return of the Blind Dead) is worth a watch if you dig this kind of thing. The film throws in some nifty splashes of gore including some graphic stabbings, the removal of a heart, a hand severing and a beheading (although exactly how some of the victims end up on the wrong end of the knights' swords is a little puzzling to me: the reanimated rotting corpses shuffle slower than an arthritic tortoise, cannot see and are afraid of fire!).
Decent 70s Euro horror movies also wouldn't be complete without a few babes getting their thruppeny-bits out and, sure enough, there are plenty of norks on display for the lads to enjoy; eventually, even older 'lovely' Esperanza Roy joins in the fun, briefly flashing her jugs towards the end of the film!
Despite being a little slow in places, and having a bit of a 'cop-out' ending (the sun comes up and the zombies just collapse!), Return of the Evil Dead serves up enough fun to make this one worth a go!