Return of the Blind Dead, 10/29/1973. Aka Return of the Evil Dead, the second of Amando de Ossorio's "Blind Dead" series, this one starts with villagers killing the Knights Templar, but not before they curse the village. 500 years later, as the village prepares to celebrate the event, the village idiot raises the Knights from the dead, as a village idiot would. This leads to much killing and mayhem. And people ignoring warnings because they assume the messenger is drunk. Really, that happens sev

On April 10, 1972 “Tombs of the Blind Dead” premiered in Spain! Written and directed by Amando de Ossorio, the film was the first in Ossorio's "Blind Dead" series, spawning three official sequels: Return of the Blind Dead (1973), The Ghost Galleon (1974) and Night of the Seagulls (1975). Its success helped kickstart the Spanish horror film boom of the early 1970s. | On This Day In Horror