Night of the Seagulls
Night of the Seagulls
R | 11 August 1975 (USA)
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A bizarre cult that practices a ritual of sacrificing humans terrorizes a young doctor and his wife, who have just moved to the group's village.

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Stevecorp

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Griff Lees

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

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Bob

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Delight

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

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jadavix

The last of the Blind Dead films features an absence of the scares the first two provided, but makes up for this with atmosphere by the bucketful. It is creepy as all hell, and dreamlike. A great many Euro- horror films are called such, but this is generally just a polite way of saying they are languid, boring or make no sense - see films from Fulci's mid-career, and some of Jean Rollin's early work for examples of this. Such is not the case with "Night of the Seagulls".In this Blind Dead offering, a seaside township has struck a bargain of sorts with the sightless spectres that prey on them: they will leave an offering of a young virgin girl (who else?) whenever the Blind Dead leave their tombs. This nefarious arrangement is threatened by the arrival of a doctor and his young wife, who immediately find the township strange and threatening. Only an "idiot", the village fool, reminiscent of the monobrow-having man in Return of the Evil Dead, is willing to help them.The last Blind Dead film opens with a shockingly violent scene as a girl's still beating heart is ripped from her chest. There is little violence afterwards however. There are some glimpses of bare breasts also, but nothing compared to the generally sleazy nature of Spanish horror ala Naschy and Franco.Overall, fans of atmospheric horror owe it to themselves to check this movie out.

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lastliberal

Poor Susana Estrada. She is the first victim of the Knights in this film. They sacrificed her before they were killed off just to eat her heart. Believe me her heart was nothing compared to the bounteous assets she displayed for all of them to see. Is there no man among these knights? Dr. Henry Stein (Víctor Petit) and his wife Joan (María Kosty) arrive at a small village, but are made to feel unwelcome from the start. It seems the villagers have a secret ritual to satisfy the zombie knights, and they don't want any strangers interfering.I can't fault the knights for ignoring the beauty of Julia Saly; after all they are zombies now.When they interfere and try to save one of the sacrifices (Sandra Mozarowsky), the zombies came after them.It is the ending that intrigues me. I find it full of meaning, but you may not.Enjoyable movie, but not at the level of great horror.

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arbesudecon

Night of the seagulls is my favorite Amando De Ossorio's movie . All the flicks he made about the legend of the templars zombies are pretty decent given the difficulties to surmount to fund and create an horror film in the late 60s early 70s Spanish industry . La noche de las Gaviotas appears as the more credible and well rounded outcome among his creations ( well don't know if we can use the term credible when we are referring to templars zombies) .Ossorio manages to transmit an eerie and creepy atmosphere throughout the film . All action is located in a remote and isolate village in the Galicia's seaside , whose villagers are encircled by the Blind Dead cult . Sole solution to ease the templars' blood thirst is to offer them young virgin for sacrifice .A young doctor and his wife arrived there and, obviously they don't seem to agree with local traditions . Villagers don't seem to love foreigners either , so you can expect a tied match Well , plot might seem a bit dull and won't dare to deny that actually is , but what counts here is the atmosphere Ossorio manages to create a chilly and eerie ambiance , maybe due to the remote localization in which the film was shot but for whatever reason film is actually very effective . Scenes where templar's appears on the beach to regain their victims are pretty well filmed

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Prof-Hieronymos-Grost

A doctor Henry Stein and his young wife Joan move to a remote seaside village,. Its Klein's first attempt at his own practice and despite early doubts about the village they stay. The villagers are all odd, they don't like outsiders, even the previous doctor warned them to get out. Sure enough strange things begin to happen immediately, they witness a ritualistic procession to the beach with the women of the village all wearing black hooded habits, they are leading a young girl in white, the Kleins heeding the advice they were given, do not meddle and return to their home and wait until morning to investigate. Befriending a local girl they slowly begin to piece things together, locals girls are being sacrificed to ward off the Blind Dead from the village. Night of the Seagulls improves immensely on its predecessor and is a darker instalment in the series, with a welcome return of the gory virgin slayings. The Blind Dead showing a slightly improved turn of pace as they feed on the newly disembowelled victims. The film is still lacking in some departments, with the nightly sacrifices becoming rather samey, its not until near that the pace picks up as the Dead Knights Templars advance on the village to take revenge on the Kleins. Solid entry, but its pace will turn many off.

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