Powerful

Load of rubbish!!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Night of the Seagulls (1975)*** (out of 4) The fourth and final film in the series has Dr. Stein (Victor Petit) and his wife Joan (Maria Kosti) coming to a small fishing village and being turned away by the locals who don't want them there. It turns out that every seven years for seven straight days, the Templar knights return from the grave and the locals must sacrifice women to them.NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS is one of the most entertaining entries in the series, which is pretty amazing and especially when you consider how awful the third movie was. It's clear that director Amando de Ossorio wanted to make good for that film because this one here gives you a pretty good story, some nice gory special effects and characters that you actually like. Technically speaking this isn't quite as impressive as the first one but it's still very good.I think the best thing going for this movie is once again the Templar knights. I've always loved the actual look of the monsters and once again they really deliver. I love their decaying faces and this film also gives you a lot of great gore including an ending that I'm not going to ruin but it packs a great little punch. The atmosphere that was so thick in the first two isn't quite as memorable here but I thought the director did a very good job at building up the mindset of this small town and their fears.Fans of the Blind Dead series often call this a good comeback but it's much more than that. In fact, I'd argue that NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS is underrated in regards to how it is looked at not only in the series but in its place in Spanish horror.

The Knight Templars return in this fourth installment of the Blind Dead series. On this outing, the Templars haunt a fishing village, where they rise seven nights every seven years to claim their sacrificial offerings in return for the safety of the townspeople.Maybe this was not such a wise choice given that I don't believe I've seen the other three Blind Dead films, and really haven't seen much from Amando de Ossorio... so my frame of reference is definitely off. But it didn't seem to ruin the plot.I actually really like the mix of modern and medieval. Not only the two time periods, but even when the modern time is shown, the city still has a very old look to it. This seems to be something Spanish and Greek horror films do well, using the countries' old buildings as part of their set.Unfortunately, the film quality was terrible, but this may have just been the version I watched (which had Russian subtitles, too).

Doc and wife move to secluded country home to take over for previous doc. Immediately, a halfwit hunchback comes into picture, and wifey starts hearing noises outside. Ceremonial processions on the beach at midnight, couple of murders lead them to think town is cursed. Sexy Lucy is abducted, doc and wife decide to leave and go for authorities, until nitwit shows badly beaten. Skeletal Knights Templar corpses rise from ocean, abduct girls, kill them, they come back as seagulls. Doc tries to save sexy Lucy, they escape. Plot has something to do with every seven years, seven girls are killed for seven days by 'horsemen of the sea', (hyperbolic nonsense overload there. Eight is always too many, but six always isn't enough, so it is always seven years of this, seven that, seven times seven, blah blah blah blah blah) Lucy has to escape, Doc and wifey help and try to take nitwit with them. They hide in the castle, a la Night Of The Living Dead. Corpses storm the castle, before being set on fire. Doc, wife, and sexy Lucy escape on horseback, Lucy cant ride horse, falls off, is caught and sacrificed.Damned, she was hot, too.These unsuccessful heros then go to cave and destroy the dead's idol to "end all this horror", horsemen rise from their tombs again as their idol is destroyed.Well photographed on an appropriately eerie and atmospheric location, but only semi-logical and slowly paced.

A young doctor, Henry Stein (Víctor Petit), and his pretty wife Joan (María Kosty) travel to a remote coastal area to take up residence in a rustic cottage, unaware that a nearby village is being terrorised by zombie Templar knights, who crawl from their tombs every seven years to claim seven female sacrifices over seven successive nights.The fourth of Amando de Ossorio's blind dead movies, Night of the Seagulls, is perhaps the weakest of the series, suffering from a slow-as-molasses pace, a lack of exploitative content (only two pairs of breasts and very little gore), and a general over-familiarity with the material. Offering very little in the way of new ideas, the film dawdles from one uninspired scene to the next (and in the case of the drawn out 'crab' scenes, almost grinds to a halt) until the disappointing finalé which sees the Stein's escaping an unexciting 'Night of the Living Dead' style siege at their home, destroying the knights soon after by smashing a statue in their castle lair (it's so easy when you know how!).This lacklustre effort was, unsurprisingly, the last of de Ossorio's films to feature his skeletal Templar zombies, although Euro hack Jess Franco would revive them for one final appearance in Mansion of the Living Dead.