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"CHILLING FUN...One Of The Creepier Entries In The Series!" -- All Movie Guide
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THE BLIND DEAD RETURN TO HUNT TENDER FLESH ON THE HIGH SEA!
In what many fans consider the most surprising of the four films in the series, Maria Perschy (CASTLE OF FU MANCHU) and Jack Taylor (EUGENIE) star in writer/director Amando de Ossorio's chilling tale about a boatload of stranded swimsuit models who discover a mysterious ghost ship. But this phantom galleon carries the coffins of the satanic Templar, eyeless zombies who hunt humans by sound. Even if these frightened lovelies can survive their own forbidden desires, will they escape the insatiable hunger of the BLIND DEAD?
This Definitive Edition of THE GHOST GALLEON - released in America as HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES - has been restored and remastered in High Definition and includes both the original English and Spanish language tracks, plus vintage trailers, TV spots and more, now available for the first time ever on DVD!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
By 1974 Amando de Ossario's Blind Dead films seemed to be in a rut. The release of The Ghost Galleon (Horror of the Zombies in America) did nothing to help the series'eventual demise. What started out as a fairly interesting concept had collapsed under its own weight.
The Blind Dead Knight's Templar are back but now they exist in another dimension upon a forever floating ghost ship. The plotting is fairly non-existent. Two models are set adrift on a boat in the major shipping channel by sports equipment tycoon Howard Tucker (Jack Taylor) as a publicity stunt to draw attention to his new water craft. The two girls drift into a mysterious fog and see an ancient floating galleon. This galleon promptly crashes into them. One of the models (Margarita Merino, in an uncredited role) boards the ship rather than stay in her own boat. That night screams are heard and she is never seen again. Her model partner Kathy (Blanca Estrada) follows her friend onto the galleon finding that the Blind Dead are on board who rapidly turn her into zombie dinner.
Thrown into the mix are a would be rescue squad led by Tucker. The group also includes Nomei (Barbara Rey) with whom Kathy may have been having a lesbian affair, Kathy and Nomei's employer Lillian (Maria Perschy), a seemingly lost Professor, and Sergei, Tucker's henchman bodyguard. What follows is fairly predictable with the zombies killing off each one of the rescuers as the film progresses.
The Blue Underground disc features both Spanish and English audio. On this film I opted for the English. The picture quality is very good considering the source material. The viewer should be aware that much of the film is dark and very foggy so clarity is a major issue.
The story as I alluded to is pretty bland. The acting is adequate for a B movie of this type. Performances are generally wooden. The model work is very dated. If you watch carefully at the end of the film you will easily notice problems with the scale of the ship as compared to the ocean it is floating in. On the horror level the film is fairly non gory and except for one or two instances of blood there is no offensive violence. Unlike the first two films the nudity in this outing is nonexistent.
This is worth a viewing for the Ossario completest but is generally not worth seeking out otherwise. The disc also contains the original theatrical trailer, promotional materials for its American release as Horror of the Zombies, and a stills gallery.
The Blind Dead Knight's Templar are back but now they exist in another dimension upon a forever floating ghost ship. The plotting is fairly non-existent. Two models are set adrift on a boat in the major shipping channel by sports equipment tycoon Howard Tucker (Jack Taylor) as a publicity stunt to draw attention to his new water craft. The two girls drift into a mysterious fog and see an ancient floating galleon. This galleon promptly crashes into them. One of the models (Margarita Merino, in an uncredited role) boards the ship rather than stay in her own boat. That night screams are heard and she is never seen again. Her model partner Kathy (Blanca Estrada) follows her friend onto the galleon finding that the Blind Dead are on board who rapidly turn her into zombie dinner.
Thrown into the mix are a would be rescue squad led by Tucker. The group also includes Nomei (Barbara Rey) with whom Kathy may have been having a lesbian affair, Kathy and Nomei's employer Lillian (Maria Perschy), a seemingly lost Professor, and Sergei, Tucker's henchman bodyguard. What follows is fairly predictable with the zombies killing off each one of the rescuers as the film progresses.
The Blue Underground disc features both Spanish and English audio. On this film I opted for the English. The picture quality is very good considering the source material. The viewer should be aware that much of the film is dark and very foggy so clarity is a major issue.
The story as I alluded to is pretty bland. The acting is adequate for a B movie of this type. Performances are generally wooden. The model work is very dated. If you watch carefully at the end of the film you will easily notice problems with the scale of the ship as compared to the ocean it is floating in. On the horror level the film is fairly non gory and except for one or two instances of blood there is no offensive violence. Unlike the first two films the nudity in this outing is nonexistent.
This is worth a viewing for the Ossario completest but is generally not worth seeking out otherwise. The disc also contains the original theatrical trailer, promotional materials for its American release as Horror of the Zombies, and a stills gallery.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
This is the third in the Spanish "Blind Dead" series from Amando de Ossorio. This film has been released under a huge number of names, including "The Ghost Galleon", "The Blind Dead 3", "Ghost Ships of the Blind Dead", "Zombie Flesh Eater", and "El Buque Maldito".
The acting is fairly wooden (the dubbing doesn't help, of course), the premise is completely ludicrous, but the worst feature of the film is the pacing. Basically it comes down to this: an evil rich guy puts two swimsuit models in a boat for them to fake being stranded as a publicity stunt. I don't know how great this stunt could have possibly been in the mind of the filmmakers, but they treat it like it's as important as nuclear launch codes. The girls (of course) get lost in a mysterious fog, where a ghost ship intercepts them. The logical thing for them to do is to explore it, whereupon they promptly discover that it is full of lugubrious zombies which move so slowly that the girls could easily outrun them, but don't.
The rest of the protagonists including the egomaniacal idiot who came up with the harebrained scheme (Howard Tucker), a peculiar doctor of some sort (Professor Grüber), and a model who is actually also a hostage show up at the ghost ship to rescue the girls. Professor Grüber immediately reveals "I'm certain that we're immersed in another dimension, completely uncommon to us all." The backstory is then revealed to have something to do with the "Templars" being banished by the Pope in the sixteenth century, so they now dwell on this ship with their treasure where they are subject to black magic rituals.
The cast gets thinned out one by one amongst lots of tramping around the creaky old ship. They decide to throw the zombies into the sea and then swim to a nearby island, although Professor Grüber, a nonswimmer, gets to remain on the ship which has now spontaneously combusted due to the red glowing eyes of a skull with horns.
I gave the film a second star for the conclusion on the island, which, while predictable, was still quite well done and creepy. I won't reveal the resolution in case you haven't guessed how it ends, but it was definitely the highlight of the movie.
I was disappointed in "Horror of the Zombies" because of both conception and execution. The film could have been a much more workable and plausible feature if Amando de Ossorio has given the characters more legitimate reasons for interacting the way they did and more reasonable premises for being in the situations they found themselves in. The pacing killed the suspense and reduced the film to the dustbin of zombie movie history. If you are a zombie fanatic, you may want to take a look at this one, otherwise, there are many more, and better, choices available to you.
The acting is fairly wooden (the dubbing doesn't help, of course), the premise is completely ludicrous, but the worst feature of the film is the pacing. Basically it comes down to this: an evil rich guy puts two swimsuit models in a boat for them to fake being stranded as a publicity stunt. I don't know how great this stunt could have possibly been in the mind of the filmmakers, but they treat it like it's as important as nuclear launch codes. The girls (of course) get lost in a mysterious fog, where a ghost ship intercepts them. The logical thing for them to do is to explore it, whereupon they promptly discover that it is full of lugubrious zombies which move so slowly that the girls could easily outrun them, but don't.
The rest of the protagonists including the egomaniacal idiot who came up with the harebrained scheme (Howard Tucker), a peculiar doctor of some sort (Professor Grüber), and a model who is actually also a hostage show up at the ghost ship to rescue the girls. Professor Grüber immediately reveals "I'm certain that we're immersed in another dimension, completely uncommon to us all." The backstory is then revealed to have something to do with the "Templars" being banished by the Pope in the sixteenth century, so they now dwell on this ship with their treasure where they are subject to black magic rituals.
The cast gets thinned out one by one amongst lots of tramping around the creaky old ship. They decide to throw the zombies into the sea and then swim to a nearby island, although Professor Grüber, a nonswimmer, gets to remain on the ship which has now spontaneously combusted due to the red glowing eyes of a skull with horns.
I gave the film a second star for the conclusion on the island, which, while predictable, was still quite well done and creepy. I won't reveal the resolution in case you haven't guessed how it ends, but it was definitely the highlight of the movie.
I was disappointed in "Horror of the Zombies" because of both conception and execution. The film could have been a much more workable and plausible feature if Amando de Ossorio has given the characters more legitimate reasons for interacting the way they did and more reasonable premises for being in the situations they found themselves in. The pacing killed the suspense and reduced the film to the dustbin of zombie movie history. If you are a zombie fanatic, you may want to take a look at this one, otherwise, there are many more, and better, choices available to you.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
`The Ghost Galleon' released in '74 is writer/director Amando de Ossorio's third installment in the "Blind Dead" series. In my estimation this film holds the dubious distinction of being the worst of the four films. The action is excruciatingly slow, the women not as attractive and the storyline adds nothing to what has been done in the two previous films. Also bothersome was the idea of placing the slow-moving corpses about a ship, it just didn't work for me.
Of course the genius about making sequels is the fact that you already have established an audience that will by the film whether they like it or not. Who wants something missing from the collection?
Of course the genius about making sequels is the fact that you already have established an audience that will by the film whether they like it or not. Who wants something missing from the collection?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Extremely atmospheric Spanish horror
This is the slowest moving and least violent of the blind dead films, but it's the most atmospheric. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Grindhouse and Horror
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent!
I actually loved this movie,i thought it was creative and eerie.Ignore the other reviews who are probrably saw and mainstream horror fans. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Anthony D. Salgado
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ghost Galleon
While the ship model was trash the rest of the movie was good. What do you expect for a man directing this with hardly any budget
Published on April 8, 2009 by George W. Clonts Jr.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Yo, Ho, Ho, And A Bottle Of Yawn...
This is the third in the Spanish "Blind Dead" series from Amando de Ossorio. This film has been released under a huge number of names, including "Horror of the Zombies", "The Blind... Read more
Published on November 7, 2008 by Robert I. Hedges
2.0 out of 5 stars
As Painfully Slow as the Zombies
So you're a swimsuit model stranded out in the ocean on a publicity stunt, when a fog rolls in... and with it a large ancient looking pirate ship. What do you do? Read more
Published on May 19, 2008 by Ravenskya
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not a bad one.
Well besides it was alittle slow pace I think it was pretty good. Also I think it was pretty cool that they were going for something different in this one. Read more
Published on June 10, 2007 by Louis Ruggiano
5.0 out of 5 stars
HORROR OR HORRABLE?
I FIRST SAW AN EDITED(WHY?)PRINT OF THIS FILM ON TV ABOUT 25 YEARS AGO & FOUND IT INTERESTING & DIFFERENT. Read more
Published on April 4, 2007 by BOSSMAN
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sleezy but not cheezy..........
In what many fans consider the most surprising of the four films in the series, Maria Perschy (Castle Of Fu Manchu) and Jack Taylor (Eugenie) star in writer/director Amando de... Read more
Published on September 28, 2006 by Michelle R. Monroe
1.0 out of 5 stars
Three Strikes, Yer Out Sucker!
Buque maldito, El (1975) is the third blind dead feature. I suppose that people were wasting their hard earned cash in the 1970's visiting theaters to watch junk like this and... Read more
Published on December 2, 2004 by Oslo Jargo
