Curse of the Blind Dead Is An Indie Homage of Post-Apocalyptic, Occult, Gory Delight

Curse of the Blind Dead, a post-apocalyptic horror flick with Satanic rituals, doomsday cults, gore and zombies - sign me up. Review done. Next.

I am dead (pardon the pun) serious when I say that there is honestly nothing I could write to convince or dissuade someone about this movie - nor do I want to. People have made up their minds whether they want to enjoy this movie, or shit on it. I loved it.

Demonic possession, doomsday birthing rituals, human sacrifice, gore… I mean, should I type more?

The Blind Dead Series is a pylon in horror and cult cinema, a series that helped to usher in the Spanish horror film boom of the early 1970s. There is no question to the legitimacy of the legacy these films have garnered, inspiring nearly every horror filmmaker, musician (especially metal bands), writer, et al for - as of now - nearly fifty years. This inspiration continues to this day with a new release from Uncork’d Entertainment, Curse of the Blind Dead. 

Raffaele Picchio’s (House of Evil, The Blind King) newest film is a sequel/tie-in/respectful nod to the Blind Dead series of the 1970s, with a modern twist - by setting the film in an apocalyptic future; it is a tense, blood-soaked merging of genres, as well as an homage to the beloved Italo-horror icons of yesteryear.

This is an indie film, and as mentioned above, it is a post-apocalyptic horror film about zombie Templar knights - and the movie never tries to be anything other than that. The score is brilliant, I must add; a dark ambient ebb and flow, with plenty of dramatic cues, and even a nice heavy metal opus during the credit crawl at the end. I was never bored, I enjoyed the score, I loved the gore, I cringed at scenes, I cheered at others; it was the familiar feeling of watching older Italo-horror films I watched as a kid.

What you see is what you get: zombie Templar Knights - exactly what you expect in a …Blind Dead movie.

While the box art is slightly misleading (it hints to some “Man With No Name / Fistful of Dollars”-styled wasteland hero archetype), it nevertheless delivers what it promises, to which I will end this review by typing what I wrote at the beginning: a post-apocalyptic horror flick with Satanic rituals, doomsday cults, gore and zombies - sign me up. Review done.

Raffaele Picchio’s Curse of the Blind Dead comes to DVD and Digital March 2 from Uncork’d Entertainment (whose movie output has been downright impeccable since last year; seriously, I have enjoyed everything from this company for over a year).

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