Scarecrowber: Tombs of the Blind Dead

Tombs of the Blind Dead

Spain | 1972 | 101 min. | Amando de Ossorio

October 9, 2025

Scarecrowber

The first and finest of the Blind Dead tetralogy, unleashed upon the world in the early-1970s and known in its home-country as La noche del terror ciego (The Night of the Blind Terror)!

Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Malakie Peters.

Our antiheroes? A disbanded order of the Knights Templar, revenants destined and doomed to roam the ruins of a Spanish medieval town. Unlike other walking dead, these fourteenth century cloaked-folk have had their eyes plucked-out by birds and are only able to echolocate their unwitting victims. Be quiet! Be very quiet! They can hear your heartbeat! [They also ride undead horses but it is best not to question the underlying logic of their origin-story.]

  • Director: Amando de Ossorio
  • Principal Cast: Lone Fleming, César Burner, Mariía Elena Arpón
  • Country: Spain
  • Year: 1972
  • Running Time: 101 min.
  • Screenplay: Amando de Ossorio, Robert Oliver
  • Cinematographers: Pablo Ripoll
  • Editors: Jose Antonio Rojo
  • Music: Antón García Abril