Tombs of the Blind Dead

Tombs of the Blind Dead
Tombs of the Blind Dead
	Original Spanish film poster
Directed by	Amando de Ossorio
Written by	Amando de Ossorio
Produced by	José Antonio Pérez Giner; Salvadore Romero;
Starring	Lone Fleming; César Burner;
Cinematography	Pablo Ripoll
Edited by	José Antonio Rojo
Music by	Antón García Abril
Distributed by	Hispamex
Release date	1972;
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Spain/Portugal
Language	Spanish

Tombs of the Blind Dead is a 1972 Spanish-Portuguese horror film written and directed by Amando de Ossorio.^[1] Its original Spanish title is La noche del terror ciego (lit. English: The Night of the Blind Terror).

The film was the first in Ossorio's "Blind Dead" series, spawning three official sequels: Return of the Blind Dead (1973), The Ghost Galleon (1974) and Night of the Seagulls (1975). Its success helped kickstart the Spanish horror film boom of the early 1970s.^[2]^[3]

Ossorio has stated that Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's Gothic horror legend El monte de las ánimas (1862) and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) both influenced the creation of his film.

^ "La NOCHE DEL TERROR CIEGO (1972)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
^ Blackford, James (2016). "Zoltan". Rise Above Records. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
^ Benshoff, Harry M., ed. (2014). A Companion to the Horror Film. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-47067-260-0.

[bfi-1] "La NOCHE DEL TERROR CIEGO (1972)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

[2] Blackford, James (2016). "Zoltan". Rise Above Records. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2017.

[3] Benshoff, Harry M., ed. (2014). A Companion to the Horror Film. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-47067-260-0.

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