Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is
Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick. This is our episode
Speaker 1: of Weird House Cinema and our first venture into the
Speaker 1: cinema of Spain. And it's also going to be our
Speaker 1: fourth episode that jumps into a franchise with the second film. Um,
Speaker 1: we did this with Boggy Creek To, we did this
Speaker 1: with transfers To, and I guess you could make an
Speaker 1: argument that we did this with troll To, though of
Speaker 1: course troll Too had nothing to do with Troll one.
Speaker 1: Uh so that's debatable. Did you actually comb through all
Speaker 1: of our titles to verify this? Well, I mean I
Speaker 1: have a list of of episodes we've done, so okay,
Speaker 1: it wasn't much coming, but I didn't I scanned it
Speaker 1: real quick. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I think you're forgetting one. What's that The Ewalk Adventure
Speaker 1: movie we did was indeed, as you're right, that's right,
Speaker 1: that was a sequel. Oh and you know what, technically,
Speaker 1: Teams in the Universe also a sequel, so make that
Speaker 1: this This would be what number six then, um, the
Speaker 1: sixth film that we've looked at that is a sequel
Speaker 1: to another film. Um, so here we go. It's good.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about Return of the Blind Dead
Speaker 1: a k a. Return of the Evil Dead. Also another
Speaker 1: another exploitation horror movie from the seventies that is badly
Speaker 1: in need of a bath, Rob, How did you dig
Speaker 1: up this abomination? This is what I've I've been familiar
Speaker 1: with for a while. I think I actually used to
Speaker 1: have the first two of these, the first two Blind
Speaker 1: Dead films on DVD like Ages Past, and lost them
Speaker 1: at some point or traded a man or gave them
Speaker 1: away and figured I would never need to go back
Speaker 1: and watch a Blind Dead film again. Uh. And yet,
Speaker 1: as these things, as these things tend to work, eventually
Speaker 1: the thirst returned and I had to to go out
Speaker 1: and watch these films again, or at least the second one. Here.
Speaker 1: This one was the first for me in a number
Speaker 1: of ways. I I know I've seen some Spanish horror
Speaker 1: movies from the seventies before. I'm struggling to think of
Speaker 1: what they are, but I know I have. But this
Speaker 1: was the first movie that I can recall seeing that
Speaker 1: had zombies riding horseback. Yes, yeah, this one so so,
Speaker 1: this is this is an interesting film from a number
Speaker 1: of different perspectives. First of all, just as a Spanish
Speaker 1: horror film. We'll get into this a little bit, but
Speaker 1: it does have kind of an important place. It is
Speaker 1: a key nineteen seventies Spanish horror film, uh that ultimately
Speaker 1: had a big impact on that on that genre, in
Speaker 1: that world of filmmaking. It's one that also has acquired
Speaker 1: a cult following over the years. You'll see it often
Speaker 1: something you'll see it associated with kind of I guess
Speaker 1: kind of like doom rock kind of vibes. You know.
Speaker 1: It does have like, it has several of the elements,
Speaker 1: you know, the idea of like blackhooded figures writing at night,
Speaker 1: weird sound owns, they have big swords, uh. So, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it is in many respects. I mean, it is a
Speaker 1: zombie film basically, but it it has this interesting place
Speaker 1: kind of sandwich between the like the George Romero era
Speaker 1: of zombie films with the First Night of the Living Dead, uh,
Speaker 1: and then bridging the way to the gorrier realm of
Speaker 1: zombie films that was to come both in the United
Speaker 1: States and in Europe. Yeah, I agree. So if you
Speaker 1: look at like Night of the Living Dead as a
Speaker 1: I don't know, you could argue a more cerebral horror film,
Speaker 1: something that's independent, original, kind of thoughtful, and it is
Speaker 1: very dialogue driven, almost could function as a stage play. Um,
Speaker 1: this is a little bit closer to that that full
Speaker 1: cheese zombie zone where it's it's more just about kind
Speaker 1: of like fluids coming out of people's bodies and things
Speaker 1: being really gross. Now, one of the interesting things about
Speaker 1: our experience here today is that we each watch slightly
Speaker 1: different cuts of the film. Uh Then I went back
Speaker 1: and watched portions of the cut that you watched, But
Speaker 1: the one that I watched is like a minute shorter
Speaker 1: and has a little less gore in it, and is
Speaker 1: missing one crucial scene that we'll get to here in
Speaker 1: a bit. Uh So, so you probably encountered just a
Speaker 1: little more of the oozing juices compared to it to
Speaker 1: what I saw initially. But still there's some dripping blood
Speaker 1: in in my cut as well. But this movie is
Speaker 1: not just a zombie movie. It also ties into some strange,
Speaker 1: uh pseudohistorical themes about the Knights Templar being warlocks or
Speaker 1: something Yeah, So you don't really need to know anything
Speaker 1: about the Knights Templars in order to watch this film,
Speaker 1: but I thought we'd tell you just a minimum of
Speaker 1: what they were and what they were not, so that
Speaker 1: you can maybe have a little more historical understanding of
Speaker 1: what we're gonna be talking about here, because this whole
Speaker 1: film is about uh Templars who have come back from
Speaker 1: the grave, that have come back with a thirst for
Speaker 1: human blood, or at least to kill people. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's debatable how much blood they actually want to drink
Speaker 1: or if they just want to kill people. I don't
Speaker 1: recall them drinking any blood after they come back. The
Speaker 1: drinking blood, I think, is what allows them to come
Speaker 1: back in the future, Right, Yeah, when they're living nights,
Speaker 1: they're all about drinking blood and doing bloody sacrifices and rituals.
Speaker 1: But once they come back from the dead, they're just
Speaker 1: about riding their horses around, invading the town, climbing into
Speaker 1: your house and coming at you with a long sword. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what's the deal with these knights? Okay, So when
Speaker 1: we're talking about the Templars or the Knights Templars, we're
Speaker 1: talking about the poor Knights of Christ and the Temple
Speaker 1: of Solomon. This was a religious military order of the
Speaker 1: Catholic Church during the time of the Crusades. Now, their
Speaker 1: original purpose was to serve as protectors for pilgrims who
Speaker 1: are on their way to the Holy Lands. But as
Speaker 1: you can imagine with this sort of thing, a kind
Speaker 1: of power creep occurred. So after a while they were
Speaker 1: given free rein to move across borders. They were made
Speaker 1: exist from taxes. They ended up playing key military roles
Speaker 1: in various battles all of the Crusades, sometimes serving as
Speaker 1: kind of like shock troopers. But UM in addition to
Speaker 1: military roles, their non warriors also played UH kind of
Speaker 1: a key role during the Crusades, managing the movement of
Speaker 1: funds across the vast distances all of the Crusades and
Speaker 1: setting up a kind of proto banking system. So they
Speaker 1: became powerful, They made powerful enemies, and as the Crusades failed,
Speaker 1: they ended up taking a lot of the blame. And
Speaker 1: so finally you have filled the Fourth of France with
Speaker 1: the aid of Pope Clement the Fifth, then based in France, UH,
Speaker 1: they worked together to suppress the order and also bring UH.
Speaker 1: These various false charges of blasphemy and heresy against them,
Speaker 1: things like the idea that they worshiped a severed head
Speaker 1: and engaged in you know, all manner of depravities. And
Speaker 1: as a result of this, uh, the Order was dissolved. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some members were burned at the steak, I think fifty
Speaker 1: six in total, including Grand Master Jacques de Malay and
Speaker 1: others were Other members of the Order were absorbed into
Speaker 1: different militaries and different organizations, or they were just sort
Speaker 1: of you know, retired. Um. So you can roughly measure
Speaker 1: the Crusades as as having lasted from ten to twelve
Speaker 1: ninety one, and then the Templars themselves lasted as as
Speaker 1: an organization from eleven nineteen to thirteen twelve. But beyond
Speaker 1: their actual role in history, the Templars have clearly been
Speaker 1: an object of fascination for especially people of a more
Speaker 1: pseudo historiographical bent, people who were trying to sort of like,
Speaker 1: we've conspiracy theories through medieval history. Absolutely yeuh, and you see,
Speaker 1: you know this this is all over the board because
Speaker 1: you see so many sort of you know, tragedy conspiracy
Speaker 1: books that involved the Knights Templars. But but also I
Speaker 1: mean on two levels. First of all, you have people
Speaker 1: like on Burgo Echo factoring them into fucos pendulum. But
Speaker 1: you also have very very you know, very strong, very
Speaker 1: serious histories they concerned the Templars because they were they
Speaker 1: were a very fascinating group that was that was involved
Speaker 1: in a very dynamic time of human history. That being said,
Speaker 1: when you throw in all these uh accusations of of
Speaker 1: blasphemy and heresy, you have the mysteries associated with them. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it just opens itself up to so many
Speaker 1: different conspiracy theories and crazy ideas. And yes, it's a
Speaker 1: great hook for the creation of some sort of a
Speaker 1: movie monster and from what Again. I haven't seen any
Speaker 1: of the other movies in this series, but in this one,
Speaker 1: the premise seems to be, Okay, these Nights, the Templars,
Speaker 1: they were warlocks. You know, they did evil magic and uh,
Speaker 1: and people didn't like that, so they killed them. But
Speaker 1: you know what, what warlocks do. They come back from
Speaker 1: the dead, right, And that's basically the premise. That's all
Speaker 1: you really need to know. Uh though I guess the
Speaker 1: other key thing is that they're not only the dead,
Speaker 1: they are the blind dead. They cannot see so they're
Speaker 1: functioning in this kind of sightless way that's has been
Speaker 1: explored in other films. I think we actually got into
Speaker 1: this a little bit with the hopping vampires of Mr Vampire,
Speaker 1: UM and and I and what I guess we have
Speaker 1: some contemporary films as well. Right, Uh, there's there was
Speaker 1: something with Jim from the office like don't make a sound,
Speaker 1: don't don't be noisy. A quiet place, A quiet place, yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like a similar thing. Be quiet, so the monsters don't
Speaker 1: get you. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's the monsters are blind,
Speaker 1: but they have supersensitive hearing. Yeah so same basically, same deal,
Speaker 1: some similar situation. And that that was another part of
Speaker 1: like the key cell on these films. Now, when I
Speaker 1: say these films, I'm generally referring to the four essentially
Speaker 1: standalone pictures, all the work of the Spanish filmmaker Armando
Speaker 1: d o Sario. He did four Blind Dead films. The
Speaker 1: first was Tombs of the Blind Dead and seven D
Speaker 1: two and that's basically vacation ers encounter the Blind Dead.
Speaker 1: Then he did Return of the Blind Dad. The pictures
Speaker 1: are discussing here today in seventy three, that's locals encounter
Speaker 1: The Blind Dead, and then he did The Ghost Gallleon
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy four, which is basically The Blind Dead
Speaker 1: plus a ghost ship. And then finally he did Night
Speaker 1: of the Seagulls in nineteen seventy five, which is The
Speaker 1: Blind Dead with a coastal setting and a love crafty
Speaker 1: and element thrown in as well. I've only seen the
Speaker 1: first two thus far, but I've been tempted. I've been
Speaker 1: tempted to get to go to to go ahead. Like basically,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of debate of these films, like which
Speaker 1: one is the best and which one is the worst.
Speaker 1: And you'll find connoisseurs land in different places. I've seen.
Speaker 1: I've seen people. A lot of people are like, Nope,
Speaker 1: it's only the first one. I've seen people who say, no,
Speaker 1: the second one, returning The Blind Dead is the best. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some people are actually like, nope, the Ghost Gallion, that's
Speaker 1: the one. I think I saw someone say Night of
Speaker 1: the seagull So it's it's it's it's kind of all
Speaker 1: over the place, depending on I guess what exactly you're
Speaker 1: looking for in an undead, blind, medieval night movie. What
Speaker 1: what is the forum for these debates? Oh? I don't know,
Speaker 1: you see just different different posts about these movies. Um.
Speaker 1: I saw an interview with the lead singer of Electric
Speaker 1: Wizard where he referred to the one he liked the most. Uh,
Speaker 1: I think he likes the Ghost Gallion the most. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you know, it's it's all over the place. I
Speaker 1: guess it depends on what your particular tastes are. So far,
Speaker 1: my favorite is this one, though it's hard to imagine
Speaker 1: the other one's having human villains as profound as like
Speaker 1: the mayor and all of the creeps in this one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one has a great lineup of human creeps that
Speaker 1: That's one of the main things I noticed about It
Speaker 1: is basically like essentially except for the main character Jack
Speaker 1: and like one other guy, every other dude in this
Speaker 1: movie is cartoonishly cowardly, selfish, and misogynistic and just like
Speaker 1: awful scumbags. Yeah yeah that. The elevator pitch I came
Speaker 1: up with for this film is Undead Crusader. Nights are
Speaker 1: back for the dead, but we can surely handle it
Speaker 1: if all the men in town are not dirt back.
Speaker 1: But of course almost all of them are dirt back,
Speaker 1: so most of the people in town are doomed. Now
Speaker 1: before we move forward that I do want to touch
Speaker 1: on one other things concertainly just the nature of these films,
Speaker 1: because because one thing I was I like to think
Speaker 1: about is okay when you have something like this occur,
Speaker 1: when you have a series of four films that are
Speaker 1: that are influential, seemed to have hit a nerve, but
Speaker 1: are also unlike uh so many other films, they seem
Speaker 1: to exist in isolation. You find yourself asking, well, what
Speaker 1: are these films like? Where do they emerge from? And
Speaker 1: sort of the you know, the Spanish mindset of the day,
Speaker 1: or you know, culture and politics of that period. And
Speaker 1: of course one way of looking at is okay, well, sorry,
Speaker 1: was just he just had it came up with a
Speaker 1: cool twist on the zombie format, right lean into history
Speaker 1: a little bit, throwing a little wild hunt. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you've read Lord of the Rings and you when you
Speaker 1: throw a little Nascal in there. I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: so many different ways you could basically come up with
Speaker 1: these same results. Oh yeah, I didn't think about it.
Speaker 1: But the blind dead in this film are kind of nasgal.
Speaker 1: They're they're sort of ghostly or otherworldly undead writers with swords, yeah,
Speaker 1: and have at least a different sensory realm that they inhabit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to read more about this. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, somebody, somebody has bound to have explored this,
Speaker 1: and I found an article titled Spanish Zombie Films by
Speaker 1: Alex del Almo Ramon published in the journal Coolabah, and
Speaker 1: the author argues that prior to the sixties and seventies,
Speaker 1: Spanish fantasy and horror cinema was just severely repressed due
Speaker 1: to quote the repression that was still being meted out
Speaker 1: by the Church Catholic power and the harsh dictatorship imposed
Speaker 1: by General Franco. Another element that they point out is
Speaker 1: that in nineteen four Spain's news Standards for Film Development
Speaker 1: initiative opened the door for co productions and the international
Speaker 1: growth of Spanish cinema. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: there was a big corruption case at the time involving
Speaker 1: loans to Spanish cinema production. So for both reasons, low
Speaker 1: budget horror movies were suddenly just a smart investment. Uh.
Speaker 1: They point out that despite the fact that Spanish horror
Speaker 1: and fantasy films only numbered something like three hundred or
Speaker 1: so during the sixties and seventies. Total, almost a hundred
Speaker 1: films were shot between sixty nine and seventy three, so
Speaker 1: the ideas cheap movies, cheap thrills immediately profitable. But in
Speaker 1: all of that, I think the thing that I latched
Speaker 1: onto the most of this idea that you know, this
Speaker 1: inside about state and church repression being uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, because ultimately with this film, we have these
Speaker 1: horrifying creatures all of the church that rise up against
Speaker 1: the townsfolk and corrupt politicians are ultimately powerless to stop them. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, I think if you were going to try
Speaker 1: to defend this movie against charges of blasphemy or something,
Speaker 1: you would say that like, oh, well, they're not The
Speaker 1: knights in this movie are not true Christians. They're they're
Speaker 1: devil worshipers in secret, right right, Though apparently I was
Speaker 1: reading that he was very concerned there were a number
Speaker 1: of challenges to making this film and pretty much all
Speaker 1: the films that sorry it did. But uh, in the
Speaker 1: first film, if you go back and watch it, you'll
Speaker 1: see that the the the templars, the blind dead all
Speaker 1: clearly have not a not a cross on their chest,
Speaker 1: not a templar across, but instead they have the ONC
Speaker 1: on their chest instead. And and that was in part
Speaker 1: a direct choice to try and prevent uh, you know,
Speaker 1: accusations of of inappropriateness because he didn't. He was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to shoot this film and then they're
Speaker 1: gonna come back and say, I'm sorry, you have to
Speaker 1: take all the parts with the blind dead out. So
Speaker 1: he said it was safer to just go with an alternate,
Speaker 1: you know, crucifix design. So these Nights just happened to
Speaker 1: be followers of the Egyptian religion or something. Well. Remember
Speaker 1: part of the plot is that they went off to
Speaker 1: foreign lands and they they learned foreign concepts, including the
Speaker 1: secret of immortality. It's not a very good form of immortality.
Speaker 1: This is something I've wanted to bring up about a
Speaker 1: number of movies that have some kind of demonic figure
Speaker 1: Van Empire, Zombie whatever that says, you fools, you know
Speaker 1: you you can strike me down, but I will come
Speaker 1: back from the grave. I will live forever. But in
Speaker 1: almost every case, it looks like the form they get
Speaker 1: to come back in their immortality does not look very
Speaker 1: pleasant for them. I mean, are they are they having
Speaker 1: a good time being these rotted corpses that are having
Speaker 1: to chase down the villagers. I mean, it doesn't really
Speaker 1: seem like functional immortality. It just seems like, well, your
Speaker 1: body can kind of come back and lumber around and
Speaker 1: do some violence. I mean, I guess it's just the whole,
Speaker 1: you know, trope of clinging to life, of of putting
Speaker 1: upmost importance on the mortal existence, right, even if the
Speaker 1: mortal existence is reduced by it. Right, I guess it's
Speaker 1: a symbol of a certain kind of imagined vanity, right
Speaker 1: that you would it's more important that you continue to
Speaker 1: be animate than what the what form that that life takes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but certainly these are some of my favorite like Mad
Speaker 1: Scientists and Wizard Care. There's from fiction where they clear
Speaker 1: clearly this was a terrible choice. You made a terrible choice.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, maybe they're they're they're thinking, ha,
Speaker 1: pulled one over on death this time. Should we hear
Speaker 1: some of that trailer, Yes, let's hear. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if we may even play the whole trailer, so just
Speaker 1: be prepared. Sometimes we play a clip, we might play
Speaker 1: the whole thing, because it's just a fabulous nineties seventies
Speaker 1: grindhouse trailer, and I should, uh, I should remind you
Speaker 1: that this is using the English title for the film
Speaker 1: The Return of the Evil Dead. Terror once again tricks,
Speaker 1: It's legendary course, making your flesh creep with pleasure. Night
Speaker 1: when the unliving rise again from their graves, you will
Speaker 1: tremble with the return of the Evil Dead, hell born
Speaker 1: revenge by which there is no assurance of protection. Or
Speaker 1: will you escape the fear, the anxiety which the return
Speaker 1: of the Evil Dead provokes a new high and excitement?
Speaker 1: Help me The Return of the Evil Dead. The Return
Speaker 1: of the Evil Dead with Tony Kendall and Fernando Sancho,
Speaker 1: The terrifying thriller of the year. Do not attend this
Speaker 1: film alone. We suggest you bring at least one large
Speaker 1: part to hold you tightly. The Lifeless Horseman will make
Speaker 1: this theater into a living horror. The Return of the
Speaker 1: Evil Dead, The Return of the Evil Dead. Are you
Speaker 1: sure you're in a fit condition and don't scream? All right?
Speaker 1: Oh man? I love this trailer so much for starters
Speaker 1: it makes. It makes several promises or statements about what
Speaker 1: is going to happen when you see this film. They're
Speaker 1: trying to get you to sign that contract. Right. They
Speaker 1: let you know. It's almost like the side effects list
Speaker 1: on a medication. They let you know that your flesh
Speaker 1: will creep with pleasure, you'll tremble your Also, fear and
Speaker 1: anxiety are going to be unavoidable. You will get high.
Speaker 1: You should not attend this film alone. You should bring
Speaker 1: at least one large partner to hold you tight. The
Speaker 1: theater itself will become quote a living horror. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what that means, but it sounds impressive. You need
Speaker 1: to make sure you were in fit condition to see
Speaker 1: this film, so I guess consider going to your doctor
Speaker 1: and making sure that you're cleared. And then also, don't scream.
Speaker 1: Not it's a good idea not to scream. I guess
Speaker 1: it's in case the Blind Dead also infiltrate the theater.
Speaker 1: It's the opposite of the Tingler. Yeah, well, the thing
Speaker 1: that's right, the Tingler you had to scream to alleviate
Speaker 1: the growing monster in your what your spinal colm. I mean,
Speaker 1: in general, this trailer does have a strong William Castle
Speaker 1: quality to it, and that it's Yeah, it's making lots
Speaker 1: of promises about what the film will deliver and saying like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're up to it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, we dare you to see this film. Oh
Speaker 1: and then that's the other thing too that I love
Speaker 1: about it. I love a movie trailer that repeats the
Speaker 1: name of the moves movie multiple times, and this one
Speaker 1: does it. It says that is some of you may
Speaker 1: have noticed that the narrator said as the return of
Speaker 1: the Evil Dead six times and in less than two minutes.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of those great old radio spots for
Speaker 1: Zombie that would just be like Zombie. Oh, it's got
Speaker 1: my arms, Zombie. No one under seventeen will be admitted.
Speaker 1: All right, shall we get into some of the people
Speaker 1: here involved in this film? All right? Well, you already
Speaker 1: mentioned the director Amando di Osorio. Yes, director, also writer,
Speaker 1: and he also did special effects on this one. So
Speaker 1: he lived nineteen eighteen through two thousand and one, one
Speaker 1: of the key names in the nineteen seventies Spanish horror resurgence.
Speaker 1: He was also a painter. He directed commercials and documentaries
Speaker 1: before branching into horror with nineteen sixty nine Malenka The
Speaker 1: Vampire's Niece, and he often employed inventive ideas to that
Speaker 1: ran up against budgetary frustrations and vegetary realities. So he's
Speaker 1: one of these guys that he seemed to always dream
Speaker 1: big and never had the budget to realize the sorts
Speaker 1: of effects and you know, visuals that he actually wanted.
Speaker 1: I love the vampires and these because it just seems
Speaker 1: like you're working your way down the chain. It's like
Speaker 1: you got bride of Frankenstein, son of Dracula, the vampires,
Speaker 1: and niece, um the Mummy, second cousin. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it didn't sound like a boat, like like, okay, let's
Speaker 1: start small vampires, niece and will work the horror empire
Speaker 1: up from there. Apparently he almost got Boris Karla for
Speaker 1: that one, but yeah, I think it wasn't. His choice
Speaker 1: was something that the producers finally said, now, this too much.
Speaker 1: He's asking too much now. As Ramon points out in
Speaker 1: that article I referenced earlier, Oh sorry, oh did it
Speaker 1: just encounter all sorts of issues making the first Blind
Speaker 1: Dead film. He couldn't film in Spain as originally planned,
Speaker 1: because authorities were concerned that filming a horror movie there
Speaker 1: might ruin tourism or hurt tourism, so he ended up
Speaker 1: having to go and shoot in Portugal instead. I feel
Speaker 1: like I missed something in the logic there where what
Speaker 1: would be the relationship between those two things. But between
Speaker 1: the I mean hurting tourism, yeah, um I Ramon mentions
Speaker 1: that there were some other things hurting tourism at the
Speaker 1: same time. Um, so like they tourism had already taken
Speaker 1: a hit, and then here this filmmaker wants to come
Speaker 1: and do some sort of a sleazy horror film right
Speaker 1: next door, and they're like, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: So he didn't, you know, he didn't want to risk it.
Speaker 1: He went to Portugal to film instead. And then of
Speaker 1: course there was the deal with the Crosses too. He
Speaker 1: was worried about censorship in that regard. So that's how
Speaker 1: you get the ons. Yes, so it's but it's interesting
Speaker 1: to place this film at the very end of Francisco
Speaker 1: Franco's rule, which ended in nine because given all of this, um,
Speaker 1: you know, you have to figure out, like what kind
Speaker 1: of audience was this was this film playing too? And
Speaker 1: Ramon in his article writes quote the Blind Dead series
Speaker 1: attracted two types of very different generations of audiences. The
Speaker 1: first were hardline fascists and the second where young people
Speaker 1: who just wanted to have fun at the cinema. As
Speaker 1: Nigel J. Burrell noted, Tombs of the Blind Dead can
Speaker 1: be read as an analogy of the rising up of
Speaker 1: old Spain against the permissive generation um, but also the
Speaker 1: repressive fascism of the Franco regime versus the youth of
Speaker 1: the day. So that that does sound it's kind of
Speaker 1: like I've read about the appeal of the movie Patent,
Speaker 1: about how it was able to be two different films
Speaker 1: to two different demographics. Oh okay, so you can imagine like,
Speaker 1: uh so some very old conservative people would be sort
Speaker 1: of siding with the Blind Dead and and being happy
Speaker 1: watching them punish young people for partying. But you could
Speaker 1: also be the teenagers going out to see the movie.
Speaker 1: Who you know, You're you're getting your frights and thrills
Speaker 1: from identifying with the teens who are partying and are
Speaker 1: being chased by these monsters exactly now. A. Sario's final
Speaker 1: film was The Sea Serpent, which is apparently kind of
Speaker 1: a dream project for him, involving a giant monster attacking
Speaker 1: the Spanish coast. The sut ultimately included both Timothy Bottoms
Speaker 1: and Ray Milan, but the lack of budget once again
Speaker 1: frustrated him, and he he basically retired after that film.
Speaker 1: And I think he went on to to use some
Speaker 1: he used to He went on to like paint blind
Speaker 1: undead templars to sort of supplement his income sell those
Speaker 1: two fans. And it's interesting and that he apparently used
Speaker 1: those kind of paintings to pitch the film to begin with,
Speaker 1: because again he he was a painter as well. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then he finally tried to get a film titled
Speaker 1: The Necronomicon of the Templars off the ground, but that
Speaker 1: project never came together either. Now, the main character in
Speaker 1: this movie, played by Tony Kendall is I think this
Speaker 1: is a first for me in films, is a pyrotechnician.
Speaker 1: His job is that he's a fireworks expert. And I
Speaker 1: cannot recall that ever being a job for a main
Speaker 1: character and anything I've seen, No, I don't think i've
Speaker 1: seen it either. I guess it kind of works because
Speaker 1: the whole thing is this this small town uh that
Speaker 1: is supposed to be in Portugal. Uh. They're about to
Speaker 1: have this traditional festival that they have every year in
Speaker 1: which they burned templars in effigy. Uh So, as it's
Speaker 1: the case often the case you bring in an outsider
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do fireworks, you know, it's like some
Speaker 1: it's not the local fireworks guy. But in this case, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not even it's not just an out of town
Speaker 1: or it is an American. It's American fireworks expert Jack Marlowe.
Speaker 1: This role was written for John Saxon. H Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean clearly like this, this is what I was thinking too.
Speaker 1: It's like, this seems like the perfect role. It was
Speaker 1: written to bring in some sort of like a B
Speaker 1: lister from Hollywood to be your your big star in
Speaker 1: this picture and sort of you know, pump up you know,
Speaker 1: international um viewership. But yeah, it's just played. It's played
Speaker 1: by a Spanish actor. Uh but I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: that was easier. I think this is an actor that
Speaker 1: Sorio had worked with before or ended up working without
Speaker 1: another picture, so maybe you know, the connections were there
Speaker 1: where the producers liked him. Who knows, he's a very
Speaker 1: handsome man. Yeah. Former model turned actor did quite a
Speaker 1: few Spanish action films. He was in seven movies in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. Um. He was in a string of
Speaker 1: commissar x action movies in the sixties, and he went
Speaker 1: on to do a lot of Spaghetti Western work. He
Speaker 1: was in some Chollo films, he was in Mario Baba's
Speaker 1: The Whip in the Body, So he seemed to to
Speaker 1: wound up in just about every genre of film possible
Speaker 1: at that time. Now, as we mentioned, apart from the
Speaker 1: main character I played by Tony Kendall here, basically all
Speaker 1: of the other dudes in the movie are just these
Speaker 1: unbelievable like creeps and dirt bags. And I'd say that
Speaker 1: the one at the top of the heap is good
Speaker 1: old Mayor Duncan. This is played by someone named Fernando Sancho,
Speaker 1: who I want to give a bouquet of flowers to
Speaker 1: this man, like he does not hold back. He was like,
Speaker 1: you know, he is committed to making the audience hate
Speaker 1: him more than they have hated anyone ever. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he has a total heell um, he's basically I was
Speaker 1: thinking about this as we were putting the notes together.
Speaker 1: He's He's everything Mayor Wimby is on The Simpsons, except
Speaker 1: you know, the like the nineteen seventies small Portuguese or
Speaker 1: Spanish Town version of that. Yeah, but without the charm
Speaker 1: that makes Yeah. Yeah, this guy is not watering the
Speaker 1: plants in his closet and stuff. Yeah, this this guy
Speaker 1: is a selfish brute. Um. The actor himself of Fernando Sancho.
Speaker 1: He uh, he worked in a lot of spaghetti westerns,
Speaker 1: you know that sort of film. Apparently he has an
Speaker 1: uncredited role in nineteen sixty two Lawrence of Arabia. But this,
Speaker 1: this seems to be I don't know, as far as
Speaker 1: movies I've seen him, and this is his crowning achievement. Now,
Speaker 1: his character has a fiance and she's a major character
Speaker 1: in this, uh, and that is a Vivian, the mayor's fiance,
Speaker 1: played by Esperanza Roy born five and as of this recording,
Speaker 1: I think she's still still alive. I'd say she's the
Speaker 1: other main character apart from from Jack Marlowe Tony Kendall. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's our I don't know if you want car the
Speaker 1: heroine um or or just the the love interest. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, she's not. It's not the worst role
Speaker 1: that you could imagine in a film of this caliber.
Speaker 1: You know, She's she's not a complete damsel in distress
Speaker 1: like she seems she has a certain amount of strength
Speaker 1: and character to her. Um and uh and apparently she
Speaker 1: I haven't. I don't think I've seen her in anything else,
Speaker 1: but I've read that she she has a chance to
Speaker 1: showcase her skills more in films like nineteen is a
Speaker 1: Candle for the Devil. But she was a Spanish actor
Speaker 1: trained dancer, and then I think later she was married
Speaker 1: to an important Spanish film producer. Now, if you have
Speaker 1: a character like may Or Duncan, you've got to have
Speaker 1: a thug. And the flug in this film is Howard
Speaker 1: played by Frank Brana, another exquisite scumbag. Yeah Live nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty four through two thousand twelve. And this guy has
Speaker 1: been in a number of Spanish genre films that that
Speaker 1: we have seen, some of you have may have seen. Uh,
Speaker 1: and that are just some exquisite she Oh wait, he
Speaker 1: was in some one peak Simon movies like pod People. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was in pod People, which I think the original
Speaker 1: title was Extraterrestrial Visitors as from nineteen eighty three. But
Speaker 1: he was also in Slugs from n eight, which is
Speaker 1: indeed a nature attacks film about slugs that will either
Speaker 1: you know, crawl on your body or crawl up the toilet.
Speaker 1: And then also a filmed titled Pieces from nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 1: I don't recall if I know anything about that one
Speaker 1: or not. I think it's a chainsaw film, I believe.
Speaker 1: But okay, which one is the one you've seen? But
Speaker 1: I've seen pod People, and I think I've seen slugs. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think with Pieces, I think I've seen Pieces. But
Speaker 1: you've seen another chainsaw film that I sometimes get confused
Speaker 1: with it like a Spanish chainsaw film, maybe an Italian
Speaker 1: chainsaw film. Torso is that the one? Like a really
Speaker 1: weird one? Well, I mean to be honest, Sometimes I
Speaker 1: see these movies I later don't recall with the title
Speaker 1: is because they all have multiple titles. Yeah, but wait,
Speaker 1: which guy is he in Pod People? Is he one
Speaker 1: of the trappers in the woods or not? Because their hunters? Yeah,
Speaker 1: hunters or poachers? I can't remember, which has been a
Speaker 1: little while since I've seen pod People. But he has Uh,
Speaker 1: this guy has a real sam the Eagle looked to him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: silver hair, a strong brow line, and and he looks
Speaker 1: like he could do some do some real cruelty, like
Speaker 1: you know, the brow turns inward that way. Yeah, show
Speaker 1: that he has no heart. Yeah. So this is the
Speaker 1: guy who played a lot of police inspectors and enforcers
Speaker 1: that sort of role. Oh but hey, we're not done
Speaker 1: with the creeps. Oh yes, because this film has a
Speaker 1: terrific central creep in the form of Murder and Murder
Speaker 1: is played by jose Kana Lejas, who lived. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is probably the most outlandish role in the entire film.
Speaker 1: Murdo is the caretaker of the ruined abbey, out of
Speaker 1: which the undead blind dead are going to emerge. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's sometimes described as the Villege idiot. He reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot of Ron Pearlman's later portrayal of Salvatore in
Speaker 1: the adaptation of the Name of the Rose. I would
Speaker 1: kind of describe him as a disturbed Stephen King look
Speaker 1: alike with the with the mono brow. He does kind
Speaker 1: of have a king look to them to him, doesn't he. Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's oh man, this this guy is so great in
Speaker 1: this film. Um and and uh. We'll get into some
Speaker 1: of the differences here in a bit. But if you
Speaker 1: if you go with the Spanish dub, I mean, if
Speaker 1: you go with the English dub on this, you're gonna
Speaker 1: miss out on on the creepy voice of Murdo because
Speaker 1: the dub has a creepy voice. But the authentic Murdo
Speaker 1: voice is just excellent. Oh. I love the voice acting
Speaker 1: in this. So you know, this movie got me thinking
Speaker 1: about how each language has its own standard vocal tropes
Speaker 1: for representing the voice of an evil or creepy person.
Speaker 1: And there's some similarities across languages, but but there are
Speaker 1: also some peculiarities to each language. And and I feel like,
Speaker 1: I really like the Spanish language is way of doing
Speaker 1: an evil or creepy voice. Uh. There there's a through
Speaker 1: line between like the way the Templar Warlock in this
Speaker 1: movie talks and the way Murder talks, and like the
Speaker 1: vocal performances you get from the NPCs and Resident Evil four.
Speaker 1: How do they sound? I don't think i've played Resident
Speaker 1: Evil for I mean, they sound a lot like characters
Speaker 1: in this movie. Okay, um, well, before we keep going,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead have a quick sample of of Murdo's voice.
Speaker 1: There's from a particular spot in the film that I
Speaker 1: thought was just excellent. I'll reference what he was saying
Speaker 1: here in a bit, but this is a great scene
Speaker 1: where he's encountering Vivian and Jack Marlowe in the ruins.
Speaker 1: Now kind of Lais was a Spanish actor and he
Speaker 1: seems to have played a lot of hinchmen in a
Speaker 1: lot of westerns. If you just look up pictures of him,
Speaker 1: you'll most often see him with a beard and a
Speaker 1: cowboy hat. He even shows up in a fistful of
Speaker 1: dollars and for a few dollars more. These are Clint
Speaker 1: Eastwood spaghetti westerns. As he this guy's just showing up
Speaker 1: his uncredited gang members and both um. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: he generally was playing heavies. But he also directed a
Speaker 1: couple of Spanish comedies in the mid seventies. But in
Speaker 1: this he's just a fabulous creep. Now, one of the
Speaker 1: templars at the beginning of this movie is played by
Speaker 1: somebody who looked familiar to me, but I couldn't place him.
Speaker 1: But now that you've done the research, I think I
Speaker 1: know where I know him from, and that's Luis Barbou. Yes,
Speaker 1: he plays the executed templar. He lived seven through two
Speaker 1: thousand and one. It's not a huge role, but you
Speaker 1: do get to see him drink blood and or consuming
Speaker 1: human heart. But this is a guy that had a
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five credits and does pop up in
Speaker 1: some big Western films like Conan the barbe Arian, in
Speaker 1: which he plays quote unquote red hair. I think I
Speaker 1: recall him here. Yeah, he's like a he's like a
Speaker 1: warrior type guy. Is he like one of the sort
Speaker 1: of father figures to Conan after he has abducted Well,
Speaker 1: now he's the guy who like buys Conan the Barbarian
Speaker 1: trains and to fight as a gladiator. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: I remember him now. But anyway, this is the guy
Speaker 1: that shows up in a lot of Spanish genre films
Speaker 1: of this time period. Now, one thing I noticed about
Speaker 1: this movie is that it has it has a very
Speaker 1: distinctive musical theme. It has like a melody that you
Speaker 1: can hum walking out of the movie. But it also
Speaker 1: the melody really reminds me of like the theme song
Speaker 1: of an anthology horror TV show, Like it sounds like
Speaker 1: it would be the theme song of Tales from the
Speaker 1: Dark Side or something, which which one a you're talking
Speaker 1: about the more melodic uh yeah, the one that plays
Speaker 1: over the end credits. Okay, Yeah, let's have a quick
Speaker 1: sample of that. Yeah, see, I think that it's it's
Speaker 1: very contemplated. This is a this is a walking off
Speaker 1: into the distance bit of music here. But then of
Speaker 1: course the other, uh, the the other types of sounds
Speaker 1: we hear. The other main really the main character of
Speaker 1: this soundtrack, which you I believe heard in the trailer
Speaker 1: is this kind of cacophonous um masonic chanting, synthy uh,
Speaker 1: just kind of just sounds from hell, like the sort
Speaker 1: of synth music that would arise from the crypt alongside
Speaker 1: of dark riders and slow motion. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of evil, laughter and size and echoee noises
Speaker 1: with digital post processing on them. Right. And this is
Speaker 1: the work all four films, all four of the Blind
Speaker 1: Dead films, is the work of ant On Garcia April
Speaker 1: who lived nineteen thirty three through two thousand and twenty one.
Speaker 1: And that that COOLABA article I referenced earlier included an
Speaker 1: interesting tidbit about this uh quote. Osorio's film is adorned
Speaker 1: by a soundtrack by Anton Garcia Abro, who did a
Speaker 1: brilliant job with limited resources, repeatedly recording the name of
Speaker 1: the production manager of the film Tomb of the Blind
Speaker 1: Dad Perez Guinner and then running the tape backwards to
Speaker 1: create a sound treatment with the addition of a chorus
Speaker 1: made up of only two people. Wait, so was this
Speaker 1: was this in honor of the production manager or in
Speaker 1: mockery of him? I don't know. I guess it depends.
Speaker 1: It depends how he received it. Um. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds incredible because the end result is very atmospheric,
Speaker 1: very very doomy and gloomy, and I think absolutely holds up.
Speaker 1: I do think it is a shame that so many
Speaker 1: of these, especially you look at Italian films. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: been there have been some really classy vinyl releases of
Speaker 1: those soundtracks and and we've mentioned these before on the
Speaker 1: show when they pop up. But I don't think the
Speaker 1: music from the Blind Dead movies has ever been released
Speaker 1: in any format. I was looking around on discoids to
Speaker 1: see if it even came out on any format back
Speaker 1: in the day, and as far as I can tell,
Speaker 1: it has not. Well, it could be wrong. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I noticed as much variation in the musical
Speaker 1: content and this one as you might find and say,
Speaker 1: you know, the the Italian jello movies of the era. True, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know they could at least put out a
Speaker 1: single right or or put it on a compilation. I
Speaker 1: don't know, because ultimately, the other thing about it is
Speaker 1: that the Anton Garcia April was an acclaim Spanish composer
Speaker 1: and musician. Um, I don't know if I gave his days.
Speaker 1: You know, he was born ninety three and died this year,
Speaker 1: so he was around for a while long time head
Speaker 1: of the Department of Compositions and Musical Forms of the
Speaker 1: Madrid Royal Conservatory. And if you look him up on
Speaker 1: your favorite digital music source, you'll find numerous releases of
Speaker 1: his work. And he also did a number of scores
Speaker 1: from film and TV over the years as well, So
Speaker 1: you know, he's not an obscure figure. But uh, this,
Speaker 1: like I said this, this, these these particular sounds have
Speaker 1: not been rereleased in any format that I could come across. Uh,
Speaker 1: there was there there was a bug in my ear
Speaker 1: when I was watching this movie, which is that one
Speaker 1: of the sounds in the sort of blind Dead Caafhey
Speaker 1: theme is something that sounds exactly like a sound that
Speaker 1: they make in that SNL musical skit, the creep when
Speaker 1: they say, ah, it did that multiple times. There is
Speaker 1: a shocking ha sound that occurs. I wonder if there's
Speaker 1: any connection there a murder would have been. It would
Speaker 1: have been a great creep he would have been he
Speaker 1: kind of does creep video. Yeah, he definitely could have
Speaker 1: done a verse. All right, we'll show we get into
Speaker 1: the plot of this one a little bit. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: this is one of those movies that is they're not
Speaker 1: going to take their time. They're gonna kick things right
Speaker 1: off with high action from frame one. So from the
Speaker 1: very beginning, we have pitchforks folks. Um My version started
Speaker 1: with a bunch of fourteenth century villagers all armed with
Speaker 1: classic pitchfork torch combo, rounding up templars and a frenzied
Speaker 1: mob saying to them, you are evil warlocks. You must die,
Speaker 1: and then burning their eyes out with fire. Uh. And
Speaker 1: they give a reason for that. Actually, when when they
Speaker 1: grab the templars and they're like, you are evil warlocks,
Speaker 1: spring kill you, the templars promise they will return from
Speaker 1: the grave. They say, we'll rise from the grave for
Speaker 1: revenge and raise this town to the ground. And when
Speaker 1: they make this promise, you know we'll rise from the
Speaker 1: grave and get you. The villager responds, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll put a stop to that will burn your eyes
Speaker 1: out and you'll never find this town again. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things that it's very like magical movie logic
Speaker 1: because what they do after this is they just completely
Speaker 1: burned the templars, in which case I think their eyes
Speaker 1: would be burned anyway, but like first they poke them
Speaker 1: in the eyes with their torches. Yeah, that's now. I
Speaker 1: guess there are a couple of things going on here.
Speaker 1: First of all, in general about this film being right
Speaker 1: to the action, since it is it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: not directly connected to the first film, and I think
Speaker 1: basically all the Blind Dead films are standalone films. But
Speaker 1: you could make an argument that this is the prequel,
Speaker 1: that this is showing like where they came from. And
Speaker 1: at any rate, they dispense with any kind of, um,
Speaker 1: you know, mystery about what's going on. You know, it's
Speaker 1: the Blind Dad, so they're they're not even gonna pretend
Speaker 1: that there's any mystery regarding what they are or where
Speaker 1: they're coming from. They're gonna go ahead and also establish
Speaker 1: why they're blind. Oh and the other movies is it
Speaker 1: like a mystery, like we don't know what these things are.
Speaker 1: Suddenly they're just zombies riding horses poking us with swords.
Speaker 1: In the first one, I believe, and I didn't rewatch
Speaker 1: the first one in its entirety, but I kind of
Speaker 1: poked around in the film, you know, like zoomed around
Speaker 1: with the slider, and I believe it has a much
Speaker 1: lower rollout of what's going on, so it has a
Speaker 1: much slower pace until you start getting some some some
Speaker 1: undead templar action. Well, anyway, in this prologue, the villagers
Speaker 1: then burn a bunch of extremely obvious mannequins dressed as templars,
Speaker 1: like like really obvious mannequins, to the point where I
Speaker 1: was thinking, wait a second, are they just supposed to
Speaker 1: be burning mannequins? But no, I think it was just
Speaker 1: not super convincing as humans. But hey, that's okay, yeah
Speaker 1: one of these things where were these are supposed to
Speaker 1: be real humans being burned? But in the same picture
Speaker 1: we see people burning what are supposed to be effigies
Speaker 1: all of the of the same templars, So uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it creates unfair comparisons for sure. But then immediately it's
Speaker 1: present day or present day at the time of the film,
Speaker 1: and it looks like the villagers are preparing for some
Speaker 1: kind of festival. So it turns out it is the
Speaker 1: five hundredth anniversary of the village's defeat of the Templars.
Speaker 1: So you see people out there messing with some I
Speaker 1: think they are Templar effigies right that they're going to
Speaker 1: burn in the town square, Like that's what the festival is, Like,
Speaker 1: I remember when we burned these warlocks. Well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: burn statues of them and then we're gonna drink and
Speaker 1: there's gonna be dancing and American fireworks. But quite immediately
Speaker 1: as the preparations for the festivities are going on, we
Speaker 1: meet Murdo. He's sort of creeping and and peeking around
Speaker 1: a corner and uh, and immediately some children are just like, hey,
Speaker 1: look there's murder. Get him and yeah, and what what
Speaker 1: is going on here? Yeah, because these kids they throw
Speaker 1: I think they throw rocks, and then they managed to
Speaker 1: knock him down and just start kicking the crap out
Speaker 1: of him. Like it's a brutal beat down on murder.
Speaker 1: And we haven't seen Murder do anything wrong yet. I mean,
Speaker 1: we will later on, but so far, he's just this
Speaker 1: guy who looks kind of weird and like a bunch
Speaker 1: of eight year olds are kicking this guy to death.
Speaker 1: Like the the implication is that these extremely evil children
Speaker 1: would have killed this guy except a very nice lady
Speaker 1: comes and intervenes and she kind of chases them off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the brutality of the kids attacking him. I kept thinking
Speaker 1: about it because this this seems like a very intentional choice.
Speaker 1: But what does it mean? Or is it to make
Speaker 1: us feel for murder? Like he's this outsider character who's
Speaker 1: kind of weird, and hey, maybe you'd be weird too
Speaker 1: you have kids attacked you on site and try to
Speaker 1: kill you? Or or is it something about the town itself?
Speaker 1: Like this is what the children are like in this town? Um,
Speaker 1: can you imagine what sort of like the local business culture,
Speaker 1: local government, what that that they grow up into? Like,
Speaker 1: maybe this town is just you know, cursed from the
Speaker 1: from the seed up, I guess. I mean a large
Speaker 1: number of the adults are also very bad. Yes, Now,
Speaker 1: did you make anything of Murdo's monobrow here? We talked
Speaker 1: about in Mr. Vampire? How the the one eyebrow priest,
Speaker 1: that we think that that eyebrow was supposed to be
Speaker 1: a sign of like respect, like that, you know, the
Speaker 1: one eyebrow shows that he's strong, long, that he's serious,
Speaker 1: that he means business. Yeah, and this I don't know,
Speaker 1: I guess it just kind of feels like they did
Speaker 1: a random assortment of physical characteristics that would make their
Speaker 1: weird character stand out as a weirdo in a film
Speaker 1: of this caliber. Yeah. But anyway, from here we get
Speaker 1: the basic situation of the plot. This is not a
Speaker 1: very plot driven movie, so there's not a whole lot
Speaker 1: to explain in terms of here. We we might just
Speaker 1: pick a few things here and there to talk about.
Speaker 1: But the basic situation is that they're going to have
Speaker 1: this festival here in the town, and the town has
Speaker 1: summoned an American fireworks expert named Jack Marlowe to do
Speaker 1: fireworks stuff, and he was hired on behalf of the
Speaker 1: Mayor Duncan by Vivian, with whom Jack the fireworks guy,
Speaker 1: has a history, and so she is the mayor's assistant
Speaker 1: and she is engaged to him, but she does not
Speaker 1: really like him, and she has summoned Jack to the
Speaker 1: town as their Fireworksky, presumably because she wants to reignite
Speaker 1: her relationship with him. Yeah, and and escape the town
Speaker 1: like this, this is a possible way out of this place,
Speaker 1: which I think. You know, this place sucks, the kids
Speaker 1: are awful. Um, you got murder creeping around and then, uh,
Speaker 1: nobody knows this is going to happen. But the dead
Speaker 1: are going to rise from the grave and start butchering
Speaker 1: people in the streets tonight, right, And then that's what
Speaker 1: happens while Marlowe is there. The blind Dead rise from
Speaker 1: their graves and set out on their quest of warlocky vengeance.
Speaker 1: Now it's a question. I think it's a difference in
Speaker 1: the different versions of the film will give you different
Speaker 1: understandings of why the blind Dead rise. Yeah, so the
Speaker 1: version I watched so so to be clear, so you
Speaker 1: can't find this film just everywhere right now. It seems
Speaker 1: like it should be streaming everywhere. But I had to
Speaker 1: rent a digital copy through Apple like Apple Movies or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And the version I watched that the
Speaker 1: film called Yourself was pretty good, but it was dubbed
Speaker 1: into England is with no option for the Spanish, and uh,
Speaker 1: there were there was like one minute of footage cut
Speaker 1: with your version versus my version. So I didn't see
Speaker 1: some of the blood that you saw. I didn't see
Speaker 1: a woman's heart ripped out and bitten like an apple. Um.
Speaker 1: But but then the other thing is it totally changes
Speaker 1: Murder's role in everything and exactly why the dead have risen.
Speaker 1: In the version I watched, it's um implied or even
Speaker 1: stated through some of the the the added dialogue in
Speaker 1: the dub that the Templars or Templars were always going
Speaker 1: to come back five years later and denied his five
Speaker 1: years later, like this is just something that was always
Speaker 1: going to happen, and Murdo kind of knows that it's
Speaker 1: going to happen, perhaps because he hears the sounds, you know,
Speaker 1: beneath the abbey, that's sort of thing. But he's basically like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're coming back, and I'm looking forward to it, and
Speaker 1: they're going to be my friends. Uh, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: creepy about it. He's more like Ralph in the First
Speaker 1: Friday movie. He's just kind of like creeping around, going
Speaker 1: you're all doomed, yes, exactly. But in the version I saw,
Speaker 1: Murdo is more an active villain of the film who
Speaker 1: summons the blind dead by performing a human sacrifice in
Speaker 1: order to make them rise from their graves. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: in the in the version you watched, and then I
Speaker 1: went back and watch parts of again, Like, Murdo is
Speaker 1: a kidnapper and a cold blooded murderer who wants to
Speaker 1: who engage is in blood sacrifice in order to have
Speaker 1: the Templage rise from the grave and destroy the town
Speaker 1: that he hates. And maybe he has every right to
Speaker 1: hate it. I think you can make that argument. But
Speaker 1: he is a kidnapper and a murder And the version
Speaker 1: I initially saw, um, it's just kind of like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's just there. He's he's here to watch,
Speaker 1: but he's not. He certainly hasn't killed anybody. Now the
Speaker 1: version you saw, though, you said that he thinks they're
Speaker 1: his friends. One thing is he's hanging out when they
Speaker 1: first rise from their tombs and he's like, hey, you
Speaker 1: remember me, I'm Murdo, I'm your friend. Like he literally
Speaker 1: said that in in the subtitles, at least to the
Speaker 1: part I watched. Did your version have that? Yes, it did,
Speaker 1: so he was saying that. But the one area I
Speaker 1: noticed where where the dub was totally different versus what
Speaker 1: he actually said was the very end of that. So
Speaker 1: there's a sequence where Jack and Vivian go to the
Speaker 1: abbey Ruins and you know, it's it's the abbey ruins
Speaker 1: are all grown up and it's you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of green and lush, and so they start to
Speaker 1: reacquaint uh with each other, and she's like, She's like,
Speaker 1: I still love you. Let's run away together, right, and
Speaker 1: Murdo is just hardcore on Murdo is watching from the bushes. Uh,
Speaker 1: And then they see Murdo and they end up having
Speaker 1: a conversation with Murdo. And at the very end of
Speaker 1: that uh. In the version I watched in the English dub,
Speaker 1: she says something dismissive to Murdo and he's and he
Speaker 1: just responds with something like, oh, they never listen. But
Speaker 1: in the original, Murder is super creepy because she's saying,
Speaker 1: you should forget all this and just go get a girlfriend,
Speaker 1: go dance at the at the festival, and then he
Speaker 1: says in Spanish, I already have one, and there's this
Speaker 1: evil snicker and then a jump cut to Murder murdering
Speaker 1: the woman that he has kidnapped. So it's a it's
Speaker 1: a really creepy moment in the film, and one that
Speaker 1: I'm really surprised that they cut, because I feel like
Speaker 1: you don't tremendously sanitize the film by taking that out.
Speaker 1: It's like it's already a penlody. Yeah, so I don't
Speaker 1: it's like unless it was just like the Murder Appreciation Society,
Speaker 1: whether like, no, Murdo needs to be a good person
Speaker 1: in this film, where I don't quite understand why you
Speaker 1: would do that. Again, you're just cutting a minute off
Speaker 1: the runtime. I mean, perhaps it seems incongruous because later
Speaker 1: in the movie Murdo does appear too genuinely try to
Speaker 1: help the lady who saved him from being murdered by
Speaker 1: the mob of eight year old's earliest and maybe that
Speaker 1: they thought it wouldn't make sense for him to be
Speaker 1: trying to help her if he had already murdered somebody
Speaker 1: earlier in the movie. I guess so I could see
Speaker 1: that being the case, because, yeah, later on in the film,
Speaker 1: you're kind of expecting Murdo to to turn on her
Speaker 1: or something, but he doesn't, or at least he never
Speaker 1: gets the chance to Oh, yeah, maybe he would have
Speaker 1: if they if the Blind Dead had not cut his
Speaker 1: head off spoiler. Oh. But also here we get a
Speaker 1: flashback where we learned that the Templars learned secret rights
Speaker 1: that allowed them to achieve eternal life. Uh. And a
Speaker 1: couple of observations about this. Again, Like I said, the
Speaker 1: the immortality that they're able to achieve does not seem
Speaker 1: very pleasant. But the other thing is that the quote
Speaker 1: secret rights appear to be simply doing a human sacrifice,
Speaker 1: drinking somebody's blood and then pulling their heart out and
Speaker 1: just like eating it, just biting into it like a
Speaker 1: big turkey leg. Now, to to complicate things, not only
Speaker 1: did my cut of the film not have the heart
Speaker 1: biting us seen, it also positions this human sacrifice right
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the film, before we see the
Speaker 1: villagers kill the Templars. So, uh, it's interesting. Doesn't make
Speaker 1: a huge difference, I guess, But I guess it comes
Speaker 1: by virtue of also moving around that murder, removing that
Speaker 1: murder human sacrifice part Oh, I see, okay, but whatever
Speaker 1: the mechanics in in any version, the talents folk are
Speaker 1: having a big party. They're all dancing in the town square,
Speaker 1: everybody's drinking, having a good time. Jack and Vivian are
Speaker 1: planning to run off together that night, and then the
Speaker 1: Blind Dead awake, they come out of their graves. We
Speaker 1: get a great subtitle that says, Masonic chanting intensifies. Uh,
Speaker 1: murder is like, hey, I'm your friend. And then they
Speaker 1: run off toward the town to start knocking on doors
Speaker 1: and whacking people with swords. Yes, and oh yeah there.
Speaker 1: So I saw one review of this film which was
Speaker 1: like pointing out that the the Blind Dead are basically
Speaker 1: they get a lot of screen time. They're almost constantly
Speaker 1: on the screen, especially after they rise, and so you
Speaker 1: see a lot of them, and sometimes they look very good.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes they do have that kind of scarecrow
Speaker 1: puppet appearance as well. I think the Blind Dead actually
Speaker 1: I think they look pretty good, pretty scary, and they
Speaker 1: would have looked scarier if you saw less of them
Speaker 1: in the movie. I mean that they're given too much
Speaker 1: screen time. This is a classic mistake in horror movies,
Speaker 1: and you show your monster too much. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: some of my favorite scenes are of them riding though,
Speaker 1: because despite the complexities of having to use an obviously
Speaker 1: live horse, they cover the horse pretty well. They put
Speaker 1: these kind of like same grave weathered garments over the horse.
Speaker 1: And then the nights the blind dead are riding these horses,
Speaker 1: um in kind of a slow motion effect with that
Speaker 1: super effective creepy music. And then they're also shooting day
Speaker 1: for night in most of these scenes. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I noticed that too, um, which, of course that's not
Speaker 1: unique to this movie. I mean tons of movies, especially
Speaker 1: movies we talked about on this Uh on this show
Speaker 1: do day for Night show and uh, some of the
Speaker 1: ones in here look okay, other ones are less convincing. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's weird when I when I think about day
Speaker 1: for Night because I think, as we may have pointed
Speaker 1: out before, it's harder to shoot at night, and in
Speaker 1: many cases it's easier to shoot during the day and
Speaker 1: and make it look like night by under exposing the
Speaker 1: scene in camera or darkening it during post production. And
Speaker 1: sometimes you can kind of lean into the disbelief, like
Speaker 1: willingly disbelieve that that you're looking at a daytime shot
Speaker 1: and just just go, Okay, it's night. I'll accept it. Um.
Speaker 1: And sometimes that's easier to do than other times in
Speaker 1: a film. But then in this film particularly, I found
Speaker 1: that the day for night shots had kind of an
Speaker 1: unreality to them that I kind of liked. And it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's kind of daylight, but it's not. It's um it's
Speaker 1: it almost has this this weird nether realm kind of
Speaker 1: equality to it, And for that reason, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it kind of works for me. Oh, it's definitely better
Speaker 1: than the ones in Like, when I think about the
Speaker 1: worst examples of day for night shots, I think of,
Speaker 1: for example, the movie made famous on Mystery Science Theater Werewolf,
Speaker 1: where it seems that they have shot nighttime scenes in
Speaker 1: broad daylight, not just daylight, but like bright bright daylight,
Speaker 1: with like maybe a blue gel over the lens or something. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's it's really hard to accept it. It's like no, no,
Speaker 1: like the brain will just not shut it off, Whereas
Speaker 1: like in these films, it's almost like there's been an
Speaker 1: eclipse or something like it feels it feels cosmically wrong,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't feel like day, but it also doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like night. It's it's it seems it seems like
Speaker 1: this is the sort of environment into which the dead
Speaker 1: might arise. So I end up buying right now. Plot wise,
Speaker 1: as the blind Dead continue to close in on the
Speaker 1: town square where everybody is celebrating and dancing at the festival, um,
Speaker 1: you get this like the mayor and all of his
Speaker 1: goons become increasingly aware of what's going on, and there's
Speaker 1: this strange subplot where they were I think maybe two
Speaker 1: or three times even in the movie, they call somebody
Speaker 1: who's like the higher up in government, the I guess
Speaker 1: the local I don't know, the provincial administrator or something,
Speaker 1: to get him to send in the army and save
Speaker 1: them from the blind Dead. And he is completely dismissive
Speaker 1: of them. You see him. He's also just another scumbag,
Speaker 1: and he's just like, yeah, whatever, you know, you're all drunk,
Speaker 1: and just hangs up the phone. And I was wondering again, like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm wondering how to read the the nineteen seventy three
Speaker 1: Spanish politics of scenes like this. Yeah, yeah, this film
Speaker 1: that this feels very intentional, because I think in the
Speaker 1: Dead version it's the governor they're calling. So you have
Speaker 1: the local politician who's totally corrupt and um and cowardly
Speaker 1: and no help at all to the situation. But he
Speaker 1: reaches the point he's like, I better call the next guy,
Speaker 1: better called the governor, and the governor is is equally
Speaker 1: unhelpful and is it seems seemingly equally like morally corrupt,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's either stated or implied that he is
Speaker 1: hanging out in a room with his perhaps mistress the
Speaker 1: whole time, and it just ends ends up just missing
Speaker 1: them all as drunks and tells him to go pray
Speaker 1: about it at church. Yes, yes, that's right, he says, yes,
Speaker 1: pray for and then he asked them to pray for him,
Speaker 1: say pray for us, pray for your leaders. But also
Speaker 1: so the mayor. There's this great scene where, uh there
Speaker 1: the mayor and Jack and Vivianne and the mayor's main
Speaker 1: henchman guy are standing up on this balcony and they
Speaker 1: watch as the blind Dead ride into the town square
Speaker 1: and just start killing everybody at the big party. And
Speaker 1: the mayor and I think Jack is like, I sort
Speaker 1: of lost track of who was saying what here, but
Speaker 1: I think Jack is like, we got to go down
Speaker 1: there and organize them to fight, and the Mayor's the
Speaker 1: mayor says, let the slaughter continue. I'll stay here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's so the worst, and then you see him there,
Speaker 1: you see him just like opening up a safe and
Speaker 1: cramming a bunch of jewels and cash into a suitcase. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which may me think of the uh the episode of
Speaker 1: The Simpsons where Quimby is basically doing the same thing,
Speaker 1: where he's like, I propose that I use what's left
Speaker 1: at the town treasury to move to a town without
Speaker 1: zombies and run from mayor and uh, once elected, I
Speaker 1: will send for the rest of you. Huh. Yep, that's
Speaker 1: about right. But he doesn't get out. They try to
Speaker 1: escape on a car, but then they all end up
Speaker 1: getting stuck in a church. Oh but before they do that.
Speaker 1: One thing I thought was interesting was that um Jack
Speaker 1: and the other henchman guy do briefly rally the townsfolk
Speaker 1: to fight the blind dead and confirm if I'm right here, Rob,
Speaker 1: I think the townsfolk here are using the exact same
Speaker 1: pitchfork props that the villagers from five hundred years earlier
Speaker 1: we're using in the opening scene. Oh wow, I think
Speaker 1: you may be right. Yeah. These are very antique looking
Speaker 1: wooden pitchforks. Yeah, some of them just have like two prongs.
Speaker 1: Some have three, some have four, but I did not
Speaker 1: expect this film to have as much battle between the
Speaker 1: modern villagers and the zombies. They battle for it, but
Speaker 1: then the zombies sort of win, and then the main
Speaker 1: characters have to retreat to the church, where it turns
Speaker 1: more into the classic, you know, building under siege by
Speaker 1: zombie story, like like the original Knight of the Living Dead.
Speaker 1: But but I really liked some of these scenes too,
Speaker 1: because I don't know if they shot it in an
Speaker 1: actual church or or whatnot, but there's all this religious
Speaker 1: stuff setting around, like various religious decorations and iconography, and
Speaker 1: it feels like a like the storeroom of an old,
Speaker 1: stuffy church. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that too. Um,
Speaker 1: and there's some funny stuff here too. So, like I said,
Speaker 1: the appearance of the Blind Dead is a very mixed bag.
Speaker 1: There are some shots where they look very creepy it's
Speaker 1: it's effective horror cinematography, and there are other ones where
Speaker 1: I have to say, they look very funny and what
Speaker 1: and so Like some of the funniest stuff is when
Speaker 1: they're doing stuff with their swords, like when the main
Speaker 1: characters were retreat into the church. There's a very funny
Speaker 1: shot of the zombie swords like poking in through the
Speaker 1: window shutters and wiggling around. Do you remember this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like they're kind of trying to pick the window with
Speaker 1: a long sword. And in fact, the whole way that
Speaker 1: the zombies hit things with their swords generally looks funny.
Speaker 1: There's this kind of stiff arm motion like the I
Speaker 1: was thinking what it reminded me of, and it really
Speaker 1: kind of looks like the karate chop action figure arm.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah it does. It does make me wonder though.
Speaker 1: It's like the filming of this, I'm trying to imagine
Speaker 1: the the the the stunt choreography such as it was. Um,
Speaker 1: where you're you're dressing some people up in these these
Speaker 1: undead blind dead costumes, which I'm guessing might have been
Speaker 1: difficult to see out of, and then you start handing
Speaker 1: out the long swords right right. You can imagine that
Speaker 1: these these actors are probably somewhat encumbered by their costumes. Um.
Speaker 1: But so here I think we also learn some things
Speaker 1: about some of the rules of the blind dead, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I think this is when the characters start to figure
Speaker 1: out that they can hear but they can't see. And
Speaker 1: also the the zombies are are defeated by fire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that makes sense, right, I mean, you had templaris
Speaker 1: that were burned at the stakes, so they would they
Speaker 1: would need to have a weakness to fire, and two
Speaker 1: papple bulls um and so there are a number of
Speaker 1: things that go on here. Of course, the scummy characters
Speaker 1: continue to be scummy. The mayor at one point decides
Speaker 1: to use a child who is hiding in the church
Speaker 1: as zombie bait he gets. He goes to the little
Speaker 1: girl and he's like, hey, your father is across the
Speaker 1: street with candy for you. Oh, he's also already gotten
Speaker 1: the kid's father killed, and he already got killed already,
Speaker 1: so he's responsible for her father's death. And he's like,
Speaker 1: and then he's going to use her is essentially a
Speaker 1: human shield to try and escape all by himself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like, child, you run across the street. Your dad's
Speaker 1: over there with candy. I'm gonna go over here now.
Speaker 1: But of course it does not work, and the mayor
Speaker 1: ends up getting his come upance. Eventually, murder recruits the
Speaker 1: lady who helped save him from the eight year old's
Speaker 1: earlier in the movie, too escape through a tunnel in
Speaker 1: the church, though that kind of doesn't end up going
Speaker 1: anywhere because they like but he ends up poking his
Speaker 1: head out of the tunnel at the end and the
Speaker 1: blind Dad are waiting there for him, and they just
Speaker 1: chop his head off, and uh, they've got a funny
Speaker 1: scene of his head severed from his body and lying
Speaker 1: there on the ground, and he's got this creepy grin
Speaker 1: on his face. Yeah, he's got this signature Murdo grin,
Speaker 1: which is the first thing we see, the first facial
Speaker 1: expression we see from him, where he's smiling to an
Speaker 1: obscene level with half of his face. Uh. And so yes,
Speaker 1: we are introduced to him that way, and that's also
Speaker 1: the way he leaves the world. Now. One thing I
Speaker 1: thought was interesting is that at the end of the film,
Speaker 1: the the good characters who are left, Jack and Vivian
Speaker 1: and the child, the little girl. Uh, they get to
Speaker 1: escape the church, but they don't really have to do anything.
Speaker 1: The blind Dead appeared to have just been defeated by
Speaker 1: dawn breaking. Am I right about that? Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: they have made it through the night. The sun has
Speaker 1: come up the rock, the rooster is cockadoodle doing and
Speaker 1: of course, it's kind of like Night on Bald Mountain
Speaker 1: at that point, right, Like the sun has risen, the
Speaker 1: power of the undead, the power of the demonic forces
Speaker 1: has ended, and are our heroes who now have this
Speaker 1: kind of accidental family formed by tragedy that you see
Speaker 1: in films like this. Sometimes it's like, sorry, kids, you
Speaker 1: lost both your parents in one just horrific night of
Speaker 1: supernatural terror. But Jack and Vivian are here, so everything's cool.
Speaker 1: The victim of mayor Shenanigan's yeah, oh yeah, And I
Speaker 1: guess like Jack's the mayor now too, right, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't by default, right, that is a part of
Speaker 1: every town charter. Right If if all local government is killed,
Speaker 1: the nearest fireworks expert ascends to the to the office.
Speaker 1: It also means they're probably all three of them are
Speaker 1: on the planning committee now for next year's festival. So
Speaker 1: that's going to be a challenge, Like how do you
Speaker 1: how do you bounce back from a festival like this
Speaker 1: and you know, and still make sure it's fun for everybody? Okay,
Speaker 1: A question, um, how come the characters once they figured
Speaker 1: out that the blind dead operate by hearing, why didn't
Speaker 1: they take their shoes off. Well, um, I guess that
Speaker 1: would work. That would have worked okay for indoors, except okay,
Speaker 1: if it's an old church, maybe it's creaky. Maybe the
Speaker 1: floorboards would have creaked anyway. M Well, no, I mean
Speaker 1: when they were trying to sneak by them outside. There's
Speaker 1: multiple scenes where they're trying to sneak by the zombies
Speaker 1: in the street. But they're making noise and the zombies
Speaker 1: can hear them. It seems logical they should have taken
Speaker 1: their shoes off. Well, maybe they could be could have
Speaker 1: been graveled, There could have been bits of fireworks left over,
Speaker 1: the fireworks have already gone off. I think that you know,
Speaker 1: there was drinking and dancing. There might be glass in
Speaker 1: the street. Oh that's a good point. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: be careful with your been a big party, Yeah, take
Speaker 1: care of your feet. But that would that would make
Speaker 1: for a good scene and one of these films. I
Speaker 1: wonder if that's been done in any of these other films,
Speaker 1: is that, like in a quiet place? Do they ever
Speaker 1: take their shoes off in that I don't recall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to say this was Ultimately I found this
Speaker 1: to be a really fun flick at um. It's it's
Speaker 1: the pacing. I feel like it's pretty good, especially for
Speaker 1: for a film from this this time period. Uh, and
Speaker 1: to feature creatures like enemies that are slow and plotting,
Speaker 1: um like they're able to explore that kind of enemy
Speaker 1: without having it results in a slow and plotting film.
Speaker 1: And then you have numerous human characters of interest, most
Speaker 1: of them deplorable but never boring. True. True, Okay, but
Speaker 1: here here's one question. The zombies in this film are
Speaker 1: not like the normal shambling, completely brain dead George Romero
Speaker 1: type zombies. They can operate tools. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: they have swords and so they can use them, and
Speaker 1: they can ride horses, so they've got something left going
Speaker 1: on in their brains. Should they have been able to speak, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they don't really have the apparatus
Speaker 1: for speech anymore. They look pretty desiccated. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good point. Are not just mindlessly pawing at
Speaker 1: the doors they're stalking around? They're they're also capable of
Speaker 1: just waiting outside. They're all these scenes where they look
Speaker 1: outside the church when they're they're barricaded inside and the
Speaker 1: dead are just waiting like waiting them, for them to
Speaker 1: make a break for it, besieging them, you know, so
Speaker 1: they gets to a certain extent, at least some of those,
Speaker 1: like the military prowess of the Crusades has survived in
Speaker 1: their their their their their rotten minds. But they don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they could have. I guess they could have taken their
Speaker 1: swords and written in the gravel if they needed to
Speaker 1: try and like lay out terms like okay, look, you
Speaker 1: need to surrender, but we will allow I don't know,
Speaker 1: two people to go free, or you know the I
Speaker 1: guess they could have, I guess. But the thing was,
Speaker 1: they had no terms. They just wanted to kill everybody.
Speaker 1: That's what they were here for. That's what they came
Speaker 1: to town for. They're evil warlocks. Man. You can't reason
Speaker 1: with them, can't. You can't reason with that. All right.
Speaker 1: If you're wondering, well, where can I watch the Blind
Speaker 1: add movies? Well, return to the Blind Dead again. I
Speaker 1: found it on Apple Movies. I think there's some rips
Speaker 1: of them just floating around on the internet, on YouTube
Speaker 1: and so forth. You can get some of them on DVD.
Speaker 1: I think Blue Underground put out a DVD of this
Speaker 1: movie at one point there was a four DVD set
Speaker 1: you could get in in like kind of a box
Speaker 1: set that was shaped like a casket. And I think
Speaker 1: there's a blu ray of of one of the later films,
Speaker 1: maybe The Ghostly Gallon or Night of the Seagulls. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. They kind of go in and out
Speaker 1: of production, but if you want to get out your
Speaker 1: hands on a physical copy of it, you can probably
Speaker 1: find it in. Digital copies are relatively easy to find
Speaker 1: as well. I think at Lanta's own video Drune Video
Speaker 1: Store has at least the first two Blind Dead films.
Speaker 1: Viewer discretion is advised, yes, yeah, do do research these
Speaker 1: a little bit before just diving in. Um, yeah, because
Speaker 1: these are these are ultimately horror films out of the
Speaker 1: early nineteen seventies. All right, Well, we're gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and close it out there, you know, seal the sarcophagus
Speaker 1: for this week, but we'll be back next week with
Speaker 1: another film. I think, unless chance plans change, we're doing
Speaker 1: another film from the exact same release here, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna be stuck in the seventies again. So I hope
Speaker 1: you're okay with that, everybody. Um, if you want to
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