Less of a sequel, and more of a remake, this 2nd movie about the Blind Dead re- hashes the whole scenario including the "origin" story, and just remakes the first movie all over again with not very many new ideas.This time it's a whole village that is terrorised. Due to the actions of an imbecilic villager, the log dead Templars are fed with blood and come out of their graves to wreak more havoc. The village suffers an invasion during a night of celebrations, and many deaths occur before the Templars are defeated.The recycling of material from the first movie is very lazy. We have the same gory flashback to a sacrifice of a young girl (rubber boobs being cut up with a knife again), we have the slow motion clip-clopping horses, the moaning and clanking soundtrack and the macho fights over women by several boorish male villagers. Luckily the film benefits from very real settings of the village and ruined abbey/castle, and the look of the ghouls themselves still packs a punch. The effects are not very good. In the "crowd" scenes, it's very obvious that some of the zombies are just immobile skulls on sticks with a tatty robe thrown over them - especially when they are beaten down and collapse immediately like a pile of cardboard tubes and coat hangers. A few set pieces however really do work: firstly when the evil major uses a small child as bait (!) in order to selfishly escape from the monsters. This is a very effective sequence and the poor girl looks convincingly unhappy upon finding herself among the skeletal mob. Don't worry, the evil major pays heavily for this craven behaviour! The second effective sequence is the climax when the survivors attempt to creep past the blind dead as dawn breaks...this is great film making and works despite the rest of the films cheap effects.On the whole, though, it's only a remake of the original, which has so many original touches it was a hard act to follow. But follow it they did, and then again, two more times after this one!

I first saw the English version of this in the mid 80s on a VHS. The shopkeeper told me that there is a prequel n sequels but not available with him. Revisited the Spanish version recently on a DVD. The movie has plenty of genuinely chilling moments (and plenty of silly ones, too) and some effectively creepy zombies (skeletal caped figures wielding huge swords), Return of the Evil Dead is worth a watch if you dig this kind of thing. The film throws in some nifty splashes of gore including some graphic stabbings, decapitation, heart removal scenes, eye burning, etc. The plot is similar to Night of the living dead. Several people holed up in a church, each making various attempts to go it alone in order to escape the blind dead who have them surrounded. Ther is a very silly scene, two people trying to sneak out from a tunnel n when one of em is beheaded by the the evil Templar standing above the hole, the other person is still standing next to the hole. The guy who played the mayor looked like Ron Jeremy. This movie may have its flaws, but Amando De Ossorio does a great job using slow-mo and an eerie score to intensify the film. The editing was shoddy. The skeletons attacking the village people n the aftermath fighting was tedious. The ending however is a complete disappointment, there's no spectacular showdown, the zombie skeletons just killed by sunlight. The ending of the first part was much better than this.

I hated Tombs of The Blind Dead. It was downright boring in my opinion. Needless to say, I wasn't looking forward to this one very much. I wasn't exactly enthused about this movie either, though it was watchable for the most part. Unlike Tombs of The Blind Dead, this one is more action oriented. It has semblance of suspense, along with some moody atmosphere at times. The photography is solid as well, as is the locations they used. The gore isn't that great. We get a beheading, a ripped out heart, eye are burned, and more. I'd say it was pretty average. The Templars themselves are very cool looking. Despite how ancient they look, I wouldn't want them after me. The acting is pretty bad with unlikable characters. Tony Kendall is OK as our macho hero. He hilariously no sells several punches to the gut at one point. Loretta Tovar is a tad annoying as Monica. Her stuttering act was annoying. Esperanza Roy is OK as well. Most of the people were dubbed, so it's a bit hard to rate. Overall, it is worth at least a look. Those that hated the first film, probably won't love this one, but they should at least find it to be tolerable.5.2/10

The sequel to "Tombs of the Blind Dead" is not nearly as good as the original. Although some parts were true to the original film, other parts deviated substantially. In the first movie the "zombie Templars" moved around in the daytime and were supposed to have been blinded by birds eating out their eyes. The sequel has them awakening 500 years after their death and moving around only during the night and being blinded by having their eyes burned from their sockets. Additionally they didn't seem to be as cognizant of their surroundings as in the first film. Whereas in the first movie they could hear a person's heartbeat, in this one they seemed more uncertain once a person stopped making noise. At least, that's the way it seemed to me. Also of note was the fact that Lone Fleming had a part in this film as well as the original. In the first movie she played the part of "Betty Turner" and in this one she played another character named "Amalia". And while her performances in both films were adequate it just showcases yet another discrepancy from one film to the other. In any case, there was no improvement on the special effects, the plot or the dialogue and because of the additional inconsistencies noted earlier I thought this was a definite step back from the original. Possibly worth a look if a person hasn't seen "Tombs of the Blind Dead" but somewhat disappointing otherwise.