Attack of the Blind Dead (1973)

It’s Friday the 13th (or close enough), so Matt and Todd return to horror with a classic franchise.

Today we invite you into the unholy terror of:

Return of the Blind Dead

(or if you prefer)

Attack of the Blind Dead

(or if you prefer)

Attack of the Evil Dead

...or honestly, pick a title and it might be right.

Ostensibly the second entry in the Blind Dead series, Return/Attack of the Blind/Evil Dead is better described as a reboot, remake, or re‑imagining. It brings back the iconic death‑knights on horseback, but trades the slow‑burn moodiness of the first film for a more energetic, chaotic, and action‑forward tone.

Matt argues that Return of the Blind Dead is to Tombs of the Blind Dead what Dawn of the Dead is to Night of the Living Dead: a bigger, louder, more exciting evolution. It’s cheaper and it shows at times, sure, but it gets to the carnage faster and delivers some genuine chaos and horror that still hits hard 50+ years later.

Directed once again by Armando de Ossorio, this Spanish horror sequel is further proof that 1970s Europe was very much alive… with the dead. It stars:

Tony Kendall as Jack Marlowe

Whit Bissell Award Winner Fernando Sancho as Mayor Duncan

Esperanza Roy as Vivian

Lone Fleming as Amalia

Frank Braña as Howard

José Canalejas as Murdo

This one is weirder, campier, and more chaotic than the original. If you didn’t like the first one because it was too slow, this might be the Halloween II to your Halloween? Something a bit stranger but faster, bloodier and willing to take a couple new risks.

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