Tea For Terror

27: TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (1972) Splatter Day Knight Fever - 14/02/20


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On this episode, Andrew Graves and Rich Johnson go on an ill-advised Portuguese holiday and wind up playing slow motion cat and mouse with some seriously dodgy undead Knights Templar. Amando de Ossorio’s Tombs of the Blind Dead is a dusty, 1970s relic from a dying Franco era Spain. Though vaguely anti-establishment, its political social commentary is often overshadowed by its blood thirsty misogyny and (of the era) attitudes to sexual violence, yet the wonderfully realised central mummified religious order of the film, provide us with one of the creepiest and genuinely scary set of monsters ever to have entered our collective cinematic psyche.  But what will the team make of it? The pair also examine seminal slasher Friday the 13th (1980) in Charity Chainsaw and answer listener questions in Mail from the Crypt. You Have been warned. 
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