Attack of the Blind Dead (1973) on Netflix
Villagers in Bouzano, Portugal burn the eyes out of captured Templar knights. Five centuries later, fireworks technician Jack Marlowe arrives for the town's festival, and the blind knights rise.
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Plot summary
In 13th century Bouzano, Portugal, a peasant mob seizes the Knights Templar, puts out their eyes with torches and burns them for witchcraft and murder. One knight curses the village with a promise of revenge. The town now marks the 500th anniversary of that defeat with a festival. Murdo, the village idiot, watches the preparations until children stone him; Moncha and Juan chase them off. In the square, fireworks technician and former captain Jack Marlowe meets Mayor Duncan, his aide Dacosta, and Vivian, Duncan's fiancee and secretary, who shares a history with Jack and wants to revive it. Murdo spies on Jack and Vivian at the graveyard and warns that the knights will come back. He then kills a kidnapped young woman as a blood sacrifice, and the knights rise.
Cast
- Marisol Delgadoas Doncella
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Attack of the Blind Dead (1973)
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- Amando de Ossorio, who wrote and directed the film, described its financing and production as "very difficult... very complicated" and claimed the distributor never paid him.
SPOILER
In the international Return of the Evil Dead cut, Murdo does not sacrifice a local girl to incite the Templars' resurrection, and the shot of his headless, spurting neck after his decapitation was removed.
