“Lovecraftian Horror” has been on an upswing in recent years and with that upswing comes many a conversation on what exactly constitutes a horror tale being classified as truly “Lovecraftian.”
I don’t have anything unique or insightful to add to that discourse, but I feel like I know a Lovecraftian tale when I see it – and the fourth and final film in Amando de Ossorio’s The Blind Dead series, Night of the Seagulls, fits the mold.
The Blind Dead films sit comfortably in the cult favorite category. Not quite zombies, but definitely undead, the blind and ghoulish Knights Templar make for legitimately unnerving villains. They were brutal and monstrous in life, and carry that with them in death as they quest to consume the blood of their victims. Like I said, not quite zombies, but more like vampiric mummy-ghouls.
The M.O. for the Templars mostly remains the...
I don’t have anything unique or insightful to add to that discourse, but I feel like I know a Lovecraftian tale when I see it – and the fourth and final film in Amando de Ossorio’s The Blind Dead series, Night of the Seagulls, fits the mold.
The Blind Dead films sit comfortably in the cult favorite category. Not quite zombies, but definitely undead, the blind and ghoulish Knights Templar make for legitimately unnerving villains. They were brutal and monstrous in life, and carry that with them in death as they quest to consume the blood of their victims. Like I said, not quite zombies, but more like vampiric mummy-ghouls.
The M.O. for the Templars mostly remains the...
- 1/10/2024
- by Tyler Eschberger
- bloody-disgusting.com
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