Extreme Horror Video Review! Night of the Seagulls

I’ve had to discontinue music reviews because of a general lack of public interest, but this is a little bit of musical trivia that I think merits mention.  Two bands have different songs entitled “Night of the Seagulls” that are inspired by the same Spanish zombie film from the 70’s of the same name.  One is by the band Templars (sometimes called The Templars), a skinhead (not the Nazi kind) “oi” punk band from the New York area in the 90’s.  The other is by the British doom metal band Cathedral. The band Templars I’ve known about for a little over ten years. Every so often I meet someone who is a Templars fan not often.  I sort of feel that of all the “punk” bands I’ve ever heard, they stand out as being the best.  I’ve been listening to them a lot lately.   They are a real underrated treasure I think.  I really like “Night of the Seagulls” by Templars.  The funny thing is that the really almost just as good and also underrated is the Cathedral song “Night of the Seagulls” is also really great.  I used to reference doom metal on this blog frequently, but by and large I’ve gotten sort of sick of metal.  Cathedral is good, I’ve always sort of overlooked them.  I have these very specific, almost OCD like compulsions about what music I listen to.  I have very narrow tastes that a lot of people find quite strange.  One of those is listening to some very odd music made as soundtracks for European horror/b-films from the 70’s such as the Vampyre Lesbos soundtrack and of course the work the Italian “progressive rock” band Goblin did for Dario Argento and others.  I’ve taken a tiny break from being obsessed with music from such films and listening to music inspired and about a European horror film from the 70’s in the form of both “Night of The Seagulls” by Templars and “Night of the Seagulls” by Cathedral.  

How is the film?  The film I would say is decent.  I have a real taste for campy horror cinema like this. It’s actually the last of the Blind Dead film series by Amando de Ossorio. Ossorio has a little bit of a perverted side.  He’s a little bit of a sleaze director.  However, people who are into extreme Asian torture videos, movies in which women are raped and impregnated by monsters, Spongebob Squarepants Porn, and trying to locate real snuff footage will find this film tame most likely.  That’s too bad.   There is, however, a good bit of breast exposure in this film.  Previous movies of the Blind Dead series I saw I found to have pacing problems, Night of the Seagulls less so.  The general plotline is that a doctor and his wife show up in this coastal village where the natives sacrifice young women to these undead knights without eyes.   In the other Blind Dead movies it is made clear that these are supposed to be Knights Templar.  I kind of like it.  It’s an okay film.