Scott LeBrun The Spanish zombie film series known as the "Blind Dead" films finishes with this typically well done horror show. The Knights Templar are once again doing what they do best. This time, they haunt the residents of a coastal village for seven nights, every seven years. Beautiful young virgins must be sacrificed for the village to receive some semblance of peace. Into this setting come the intrepid young doctor Henry Stein (Victor Petit) and his lovely wife Joan (Maria Kosty). The locals make it clear that he is not welcome, but he insists on meddling in their business, and naturally comes to regret it."The Night of the Seagulls" is good and solid in the best tradition of Euro horror. It's as beautifully atmospheric as the best in the genre. Director Amando de Ossorio, who'd done all the previous entries, is in his element, and he crafts an effectively macabre outing. It's not going to be nearly gory enough for some viewers, but dwelling on the graphic violence is clearly not de Ossorios' priority this time around. It's all about the mood and the style.One can hardly fail to notice that there is an absence of strong primary colours, therefore the picture doesn't exactly "pop". It's done in a true "black & white film in colour" manner. The music score by Anton Garcia Abril is sometimes repetitive, but overall it's eerie. The admittedly simple story plays like a nightmare come to life.The acting is generally engaging; Henry and Joan are obviously not the brightest bulbs in the drawer, but they're not unlikable. Both Petit and Kosty are fine. Standing out are Sandra Mozarowsky as the brave Lucy, who's willing to befriend the couple, defy her peers, and divulge as much exposition as she knows, and Jose Antonio Calvo as the much abused town simpleton Teddy, for whom it's not hard to feel sympathy. The Knights Templar are as spooky and hideous as they've ever been.Well worth watching for genre buffs.Seven out of 10.

montferrato Night of the Seagulls is the last movie of the famous Blind Dead series made by Spanish film director Amando de Ossorio. This is one of the best low-budget horror movies of the seventies. It does contain many mistakes, of course, but that is to be expected in this type of movie. We can not wish here for production values such as in "Gone with the Wind". Amando de Ossorio had enormous difficulty in financing this movie, which was just about to become one of those forgotten movies who could not be finished due to lack of money. Finally, they managed to solve the situation with the help of a friend of Ossorio, J. Bermudez de Castro, an aristocratic Spaniard from an old and wealthy family who possessed a vast culture and particular tastes in literature and cinema. This movie has also some peculiarities that make it an important film, or at least a curiosity. One of them is the fact that Sandra Mozarowsky is one of the actresses. Sandra Mozarowsky is the pretty and young brunette maiden called Lucy. This girl died in mysterious circumstances not even three years after making this movie , being just 19 years old. The strange death of Sandra Mozarowsky conmotioned Spain at the time. This girl used to die in nearly all the movies she appeared in, and her mysterious "suicide" still remains a matter of controversy, as she was rumored to be friendly with high personalities of Spain. The script, photography and story are pretty good. Also, the HP Lovecraft touch goes very well with the story. The Pagan Idol worshiped by the Templars resembles very much the Philistine idol dagon, or the Carthage-Phoenician deity "Moloch". Human sacrifices in coastal states were not unknown in history. The "Dagon" or "Horror of Dunwich" twist sits well with the movie. The scenes where the ritualistic human sacrifices take place, at dawn in abandoned beaches, are beautifully filmed. The scenes of the Idol Sacrifice and worship are very good, and the Blind Dead Knight Templars are convincing and creepy as usual. Very interesting little gem, with the added charm of the presence of the sad and hauntingly beautiful Sandra Mozarowski, a pretty maiden with a tragic destiny.

Uriah43 The blind Knights Templar are at it again in this fourth and final installment of the series. In this particular movie, a young doctor "Dr. Henry Stein" (Victor Petit) and his wife "Joan Stein" (Maria Kosty) travel to a small coastal village to set up shop. That night they hear strange sounds and go to investigate. What they see is a beautiful woman dressed in white being led by the townspeople somewhere out on the beach. The doctor passes it off as a local tradition. However, when two young women, "Tilda Flanagan" (Julia Saly) and "Lucy" (Sandra Mozarowsky) are taken from his house by the townspeople, he becomes concerned and tries to do something about it. Now, since I don't wish to spoil the movie for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this film had a darker feel to it than its predecessors. A big plus for this film was the three attractive ladies just mentioned. But even so there were parts that seemed ponderously slow and repetitious. In short, while this film is certainly watchable I think a person has to make some allowances in the process.

Leonard Smalls: The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse Not sure what exactly it was about "Night of the Seagulls" that makes it stand apart from the other Blind Dead films to me, but it just has an ambiance to it that the other films were missing.I got the Blind Dead Box Set, which includes a little book that says that "Night of the Seagulls" is regarded as the weakest of the four. So, I went into it a little jaded. Maybe that's why I felt rewarded at the end of this one.The plot is similar to the other films, but the overall creepiness was just better and more effective. There are a few scenes where the templar dudes are trying to get into houses or chasing people and the tension is thick and very real.Anyway, I really liked this one. Definitely as good or better than "Tombs of the Blind Dead." 7 out of 10, kids.