Has it really been two years since we covered TOMBS OF THE
BLIND DEAD? That is far too long! It is with great pleasure that we return to
the land of the living dead Templar Knights! For the second of Ossorio's
fantastic Blind Dead films we examine the two different cuts available on
Region 1 DVD and then ponder the deeper social commentary buried within the
story. Really? Only for a little while. We mostly chat about the casting
choices, the relative beauty of the female actors, the story's odd love rectangle,
the mechanics of the creeping living dead and the number of homages to (or
steals from) other movies that Ossorio weaves into the story. I wish we had
spent more time on how difficult it is to destroy these walking corpses but
some things get lost in the stumble/shuffle.
Of course, this being the NaschyCast the show starts with
some unrelated discussion of several monster related topics. I wax enthusiastic
about Universal Horror novels and we discuss the joys of Shaun Hutson's horror
epic 'Slugs', which leads us to the question of why we have yet to cover any
examples of the cinema of Spain's Juan Piquer Simon. He certainly fits our
criteria as he is Spanish and has directed plenty of Horror, so maybe a show on
PIECES is in our future. That one won't be for the faint of heart! We also have
an impromptu discussion of Lucio Fulci's tetralogy of gore films and - just for
fun - rank them from best to worst. In the mailbag section we commiserate with
a listener fresh from a viewing of FURY OF THE WOLFMAN and talk briefly about
several worthy Jess Franco titles. How long before we just dive headlong into
Uncle Jess' catalog and never look back?
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