10/26/15 – day twenty-six of thirty-one days of horror!
I’ve avoided zombies so far in this year’s list because let’s face it,
thanks to Walking Dead, zombies are now relegated to boring office water
cooler talk, like Seinfeld was in the 90’s. But there are still weird
and wonderful zombie movies out there that have something unique to
offer, and one of the coolest is Spanish horror maestro Amando de
Ossorio’s Tombs of the Blind Dead. See, these aren’t your garden-variety
zombies, these are blind Templar Knight zombies, which is about
1,000 times cooler that anything you’ll see on AMC. Ossorio loves to
show his hooded, blade-wielding revenants (that’s cool-guy speak for
“zombie”) in slow motion riding horses, which alone is creepy enough to
demand a viewing. There are 3 sequels to this film, but the first two
function best as stories, at least as far as 70’s Eurotrash cinema is
concerned. This Halloween, dare to be different and blow your
co-worker’s minds by dropping some mad Blind Dead knowledge into the
convo!
