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Night of the Seagulls

Original title: La noche de las gaviotas
  • 1975
  • R
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
2.4K
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Night of the Seagulls (1975)
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In this final installment of the Blind Dead series, a doctor and his wife move to a small inhospitable coastal village where he plans to start a practice only to discover that undead demon-w... Read allIn this final installment of the Blind Dead series, a doctor and his wife move to a small inhospitable coastal village where he plans to start a practice only to discover that undead demon-worshiping Templar Knights haunt the place.In this final installment of the Blind Dead series, a doctor and his wife move to a small inhospitable coastal village where he plans to start a practice only to discover that undead demon-worshiping Templar Knights haunt the place.

  • Director
    • Amando de Ossorio
  • Writers
    • H.P. Lovecraft
    • Amando de Ossorio
  • Stars
    • Víctor Petit
    • María Kosty
    • Sandra Mozarowsky
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    2.4K
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    • Director
      • Amando de Ossorio
    • Writers
      • H.P. Lovecraft
      • Amando de Ossorio
    • Stars
      • Víctor Petit
      • María Kosty
      • Sandra Mozarowsky
    • 60User reviews
    • 46Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Víctor Petit
    • Dr. Henry Stein
    María Kosty
    María Kosty
    • Joan Stein
    • (as Maria Kosti)
    Sandra Mozarowsky
    • Lucy
    • (as Sandra Mozarosky)
    José Antonio Calvo
    • Teddy
    • (as Jan Antonio Castro)
    Julia Saly
    • Tilda Flanagan
    • (as Julie James)
    Javier de Rivera
    • Doctor
    Pilar Vela
    • Storekeeper
    Fernando Villena
    • Mr. Flanagan
    María Vidal
    • Mrs. Flanagan
    Oscar Phens
    • George
    Susana Estrada
    • Girl sacrificed at the beginning
    Luis Ciges
    Luis Ciges
    • Director
      • Amando de Ossorio
    • Writers
      • H.P. Lovecraft
      • Amando de Ossorio
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    10quahogq

    My favorite horror movie of all time

    I can not think of anything bad to say about this movie. It has everything- Goth, zombies, gore, virgin sacrifices, good acting, likeable characters, scares, and fun. If you have not seen this movie you are not leading a complete life! See it now!!!!!
    8HumanoidOfFlesh

    Surprisingly good.

    "Blind Dead" tetralogy(1971-1975)is among the best and most famous Spanish horror films of their time.These movies are surprisingly well-made and creepy.The best feature of the films is their title menace:the Blind Dead,mummified zombies which rise from their graves to drink the blood of their victims."Night of the Seagulls"/"La Noche de las Gaviotas" is regarded as the weakest film of "Blind Dead" series(the other three movies are "Tombs of the Blind Dead","Return of the Blind Dead" and "Ghost Galleon").I think that this film is unfairly criticized-there is actually plenty of atmosphere here.Particularly effective is the sense of stoic dread that hangs over the village.Every seven years,these people must give up seven of their children,so that the others might live.Unfortunately the Templars are treated with far less mystery and awe than they are in other films.Still the climax is quite suspenseful and the Templars look terrifying.Overall I enjoyed this film,so if you liked this highly original and imaginative series give this one a look.
    6Bezenby

    It doesn't suck like the one before it!

    Here we go again. The Blind Dead return and this time they are holding a coastal village in a grip of terror - demanding a virgin to be chained up on the beach for seven days in a row, every seven years. Why? Don't ask me, and definitely don't ask that nice couple that have just moved in because they've obviously not seen the previous three Blind Dead films. Lucky escape for them when it comes to the third one.

    You see the guy is the new doctor in town but the locals don't seem to like him or his wife, right down to plain acting as if they weren't there! The couple find this behaviour rather odd but what I found rather odd was that the new doctor had never checked out the place he and his wife were moving to and instead just turned up one day not knowing anything about the place they were staying in? What these two quickly find is that the villagers are too scared to stand up to the Blind Dead, and that they might be a bit short of virgins, or is that young ladies? When I think about it I'm not quite sure it was virgins they were after. Why am I overthinking this?

    You can guess what happens next. With only the help of the odd villager (the village idiot, some young girl) the couple have to escape the clutches of the slow motion underfed Knights, but unlike the previous film, this one piles on the atmosphere. Right from the start these two unsuspecting victims find themselves right in the middle of strangeness, what with the weird villagers and such like. The pacing is much better too, so you won't get too bored.

    One funny bit was when they used the Blind Dead's horses to escape, then acted surprised when the horses just went back to the Blind Dead's castle. What did you expect to happen? That's enough Blind Dead. This film holds the distinction of having the longest purchased to watched duration of any DVD in my collection. Must be about twelve years!
    6Fella_shibby

    A worthy entry with ample atmosphere, desolated settings n once again the inclusion of the zombie horses.

    I saw this for the first time recently. This one is the fourth and final in the Blind Dead series n much better than the previous one. It has good atmosphere, the setting is isolated n creepy, lil nudity n the zombie horses r back once again. The film gets a bit slow but ther is sufficient tension n creepiness.

    A doc along with his wife moves into a very desolated n archaic coastal town, where they are met with distrust and hatred from the locals. The couple is unaware that the town's people offer live human beings to the undead Templars who sacrifice the human beings in front of an idol n drink their blood n eat their meat.

    When the knights templars weren't dead, they used to check out the boobs before stabbing the victims n aft turning into zombies, old habits die hard.
    7Coventry

    Seagulls Sing A Splendid Swan Song!

    You certainly can't reproach Amando De Ossorio of being lazy or repetitive, as this fourth & final installment in his terrific "Blind Dead" series is again very different in tone and content than any of the previous three. "Night of the Seagulls" is more mysterious and atmospheric than the other films and De Ossorio also throws in an compelling, albeit unoriginal, outsiders-in-a-closed-community sub plot. Young doctor Henry and his wife Joan arrive in a remote seaside village where they're given a VERY unfriendly reception by the oddly behaving locals. Only the town's nut Teddy and maiden beauty Lucy make acquaintance with the new arrivals and also inform them about the village's inescapable "pact" with the undead Templar Knights. For seven nights every seven years, the villagers have to sacrifice their virgin daughters to these eyeless zombies during a nocturnal ceremony on the beach. Okay granted, the sacrifice element in the story is definitely not new and the Templars are given less screen time than usual, but still this is a genuinely creepy exploitation highlight! You can either begin to sum up all the shortcomings and stupidities in the script (and yes, there are quite a lot of them), or enjoy the tense atmosphere and unique filming locations instead! The very weakest moments of the film – like that horribly lame ending – are somewhat more difficult to forgive, but there's graphic gore and sleaze to make up for that. By the way, did you know that skeletons that are dead for more than six centuries still bleed when you destroy them? Oh yeah, massively even! Throughout filming four similar movies, Amando De Ossorio's directing always remained solid, the choreography was always stylish, the music was always petrifying and the acting performances were always above average! That's definitely praiseworthy, too. Every single entry in the "Blind Dead" saga is highly recommended to every true horror fan.

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    • Trivia
      Also known as "Night of the Seagulls". Someone printed mock DVD artwork using the title, Zombi 7: Last Rites, but the print used still bears the title, The Night Of The Seagulls.
    • Goofs
      a scene at 44 minutes , after TILDA was murdered by knights , when a bunch of crabs start crawling to her , a shot scene from above to her face , you can see her lips and her eyes are moving despite she was supposed to be dead .
    • Alternate versions
      The UK pre-cert video release (on the obscure Archer Video label) was listed on Greater Manchester Police's original list of titles subject to seizure during the video nasty scare of the 1980s. It was eventually released on the Kontiki label in 1987 (as "Don't Go Out At Night") after 1 min 6 secs of BBFC cuts to edit some scenes of nudity and violence, and was released fully uncut, under its original title, by Anchor Bay in 2005.
    • Connections
      Featured in Amando de Ossorio: el último templario (2001)

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    • Release date
      • 1977 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Spain
    • Language
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Night of the Evil Dead
    • Filming locations
      • Tossa de Mar, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
    • Production companies
      • Ancla Century Films
      • Profilmes
      • Pérez Pareja, M. Flor
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 29m(89 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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