Rainbow Reel: Tombs of the Blind Dead Review

Rainbow Reel takes a look at the original Spanish horror exploitation film that spawned a slew of sequels. Tombs of the blind dead features one of the coolest villains ever created. Something very important that I have learned from Tombs of the Blind Dead is that in horror movies women are bitches and men are rapists. Such is life.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Tombs of the blind dead
• Revenge of Planet ape
• Rainbow reel
• cinema
• horror
• movie
• cult
• classic
• exploitation
• zombie
• spanish
• templar
• knights
• planet of the apes
• Lord of the rings

[SCOTTISHFILMFAN]

excellent review

would love to see this un :)

[RainbowReelcinema]

@SCOTTISHFILMFAN Its worth watching just for the ending. Don't get me wrong its not a twist or anything but it does kind of leave you there going 'oh...right...well...I didn't think it would end up like this.'

[strontiumcrypt]

I saw one of the sequels, Ghost Galleon I think. Unfortunately it was on one of those Mill Creek 50 movies for 9 bucks deals so the transfer was...bare bones. Despite that, and what I expect is the law of exponentially poorer quality sequels, the undead Templars were fucking cool and made it all worth it. Ive been meaning to check this one out for some time now.

[RainbowReelcinema]

@strontiumcrypt I heard that some of the sequels don't feature the knights on horses which seems like the wrong way to go. Really their makeup and costume in this movie is amazing. Their hands are a bit rubbery in a couple of close ups but other than that they look like what I imagine undead templar knights would look like.

[CornOfTheDead]

This looks like an awesome movie, I want it but I don't want to pay $17 for it in case I don't like it =(. Yeah I'm a cheap bastard sometimes =) lol.

[RainbowReelcinema]

@CornOfTheDead Yeah I got it on E-Bay for exactly that much and I was a bit hesitant but turns out it was well worth it. Sucks being in Australia where we can't just pick these movies up off the shelf don't it?

[mjlambert1]

@Xeper1979 As long as its the foreign edit. The American edit is crap.

[Xeper1979]

IS this film worth over 20 bucks Canadian

[VandalStork]

@RainbowReelcinema My history with this film is unique. I saw perhaps 10 minutes on latenight television back in 1979, and was so scared I turned it off...then couldn't remember the name or anything...till about 1999, when I found a double-sided issue of this film and it's sequal for 5-dollars. I snatched it up (the cover made me remember what movie it was) even though I didn't own a DVD player...and wouldn't be ably to watch the movie till I finally had access to one two years later.

[Skulldini]

Hell, I always thought THIS movie was even scarrier than Night Of The Living Dead!

[MetalGeorge666]

Excellent and hilarious review, man! 5 Stars!

[frmonth2]

Nice review you gave cool infomation that I didn't know and made me laugh.