Night of the Seagulls

Director: Amando de Ossorio, Amando de Ossorio

1975 / 98min / 35mm

The last ride for the Knights Templar, this richly atmospheric capper to de Ossorio’s Blind Dead series lays its scene in a coastal village where a young doctor and his wife (Victor Petit and María Kosty) have newly settled, and will learn its terrible secret. Every seven years the knights return to terrorize the townspeople for seven days, only held in abeyance by the blood sacrifice of virgin women. The doctor’s scientific mind balks at such backwards superstition, before he faces supernatural evil beyond rational comprehension. A vivid waking nightmare in somber, muted tones, and a series high note.