Amando de Ossorio’s Blind Dead series is one of my favorite things out there. Its slow-motion skeletal Templar monks, blinded but able to track their victims by sound, are some of the more iconic images in Euro-horror, and inspired one of my favorite metal bands, Hooded Menace. Spend some time in their presence, won’t you? (And why the hell aren’t these things out on Blu-Ray???)
As an added bonus, here’s the insane alternate opening sequence to Tombs of the Blind Dead. It was re-released in the US with this opening tacked on in an attempt to make people believe that this was a sequel to Planet of the Apes! The distributor retitled it Revenge of the Planet Ape because, apparently, they believed that all people are idiots. They may have had something there.
Doctor Sardonicus 