The Horror Returns - THR/ESP Bonus Ep. - The Curse Of The Blind Dead (2020)

Episode Date: May 27, 2021

This episode Brian and Nez take a look at the 2020 release The Curse of the Blind Dead.  In the 14th century, the Knight Templars, composed of a group of Satan worshipers, are captured during an unholy ritual and brutally murdered by locals.   Join The Horror Returns Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1056143707851246 THR Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thehorrorreturns   Join The Action Returns Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/841619946357776   Follow The Action Returns on IG and Twitter: Instagram: @theactionreturns Twitter: @action_returns    Join the THR Presents: Stream Fiends Facebook Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/3860579827402429 Follow THR Stream Fiends on IG: @thrstreamfiends   Hit up E Society Podcast on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ESocietyPodcast/ Check out our ESP Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/mac-nez Twitter: @macnezpod @TheoZissou Instagram: @espmacnezpod @thezissou @macnez Nez and Taylor Blu-ray IG pages: @bluraynez @blurayterror

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And in order to continue our mission, he has presented us with two new brothers. And everybody, welcome back to another episode. episode of THR ESP. I guess, I don't know, is that the name now? Yeah, that's fine. That's what I've been putting down. Another bonus episode.

This time we're bringing you Curse of the Blind Dead. But first, I'm your host, Brian. With me, as always, my brother Nez. What's up, man? I'm good. This was a movie. Yeah.

from what I understand it's a remake or reimagining of like the 1970 around that decade Italian horror series the same name? I guess a bunch of them from the like the 70s was like the blind

something the blind dead or the blind did something there was like a bunch of them so that's what I understand that this is a reimagining Hmm. Well, I've never heard of the other ones, though. I've never heard of this at all. But Curse of the Blind Dead.

Oh, it came out last year? I thought it was this year. Yeah, I think it just now recently got released on VOD and DVD. This one's from uncorked entertainment and high octane pictures. So I think it might have got like a little release last year, but the full release just happened. All right. All right.

Geez, my internet's super slow. You need me to be in an absence. Yeah, because I can't pull nothing up. All right. We'll start with, of course, Google. In the 14th century, the Knight Templar is composed of a group of Satan worshippers are captured during and holy, ritual and brutally murdered by locals.

Yeah. Let's get to IMDB. Of course, IMDB's got to be longer. Let's see. In the 14th century, a group of Satan worshippers, the Knight Templars is captured during a ritual and brutally murdered by the locals. Just before the execution, the knights swear

to return from their graves to haunt the village. in the nearby, in the nearby four centuries later, in a post-apocalyptic future, a man and his daughter tried to survive against both the undead knights and the sect command of a mad preacher. This stars. Aaron Steistra, Alice Zanini, Francesca Pellegrini, Bill Hutchins, Fabio Testy, David White, Jennifer Mischati, sorry, got some names here, Douglas Dean and others. This is directed by Rafael A. Pachio and writers are Francisco H. Alberti. Gustavo out of

Flalo Lorenzo Paviano Nez What did you think of Curse of the Blind Dead All right Was this in Italian

Because it sounded like it was dubbed Yeah Some of them sounded dubbed And just now Looking at this Cast list There's a lot of I'm assuming

Italian actors and actresses so this this might have been filmed in I was looking at I was looking at the lips and it looked like they were speaking English maybe with their accents it might have been

stronger I mean I don't really know but that was the first thing I noticed because it just you can always tell when something sounds d other than their mouths don't match up to what they're saying but it just sounds

different to me it's the only way I can explain it but I'm seeing here it is a Spanish filmmaker so could be could be from Spain says here Italy the country was Italy and it says it was in English so but I mean I don't know

all right but as far as the film I thought they did it pretty good I mean, as far as sound and just imagery and just the setting of what they were trying to do. But I didn't get what was happening. What was this the stuff in the beginning other than, were those dudes, were those guys the ones that got blinded? Were they the ones that were like, they looked like the creep show creeper at the end. But was that them? Yeah. You can you can throw the spoiler alert now.

Yeah. Because anyway, we try to review this. We're going to spoil it. So you already heard the spoiler warning. Yeah. I think, I believe that was them because they were performing a ritual to appease some kind of, I guess the devil or some kind of something that it wasn't really too clear. But my thing is the villagers come in to stop it, but they still kill the woman and the baby. I'm like, so essentially you did what they were trying to do?

I guess. I mean, especially at the end. I mean, well, before we get to the end. yeah the beginning was like way way way back in the day when uh you see all i guess it were priests or or what of devil worshiping i don't know and they were supposed to sacrifice um a newborn to appease them or appease saint or i don't know it was never really an explanation on why they were doing what they were doing i didn't understand why the woman looked all demonic Yeah, I thought she was like a zombie or something

But I I don't know maybe Because I didn't I didn't get what was happening There wasn't really Much of an explanation On really why they were doing this If there was I didn't

Catch it but I was just kind of like Okay Yeah It's starting out okay and what made them, who blinded all those priests? Was that just the, the villagers?

Did they just not want to do that anymore? So they blinded them? I immediately was throwing off because, like I said, they came in and stopped this ritual only to do what the knights were about to do. And then I didn't understand why they blind them. and burn them? Because, I mean, kind of seems senseless to blind somebody

if you're going to burn them or, or maybe, I don't know, maybe I missed something. Maybe they were sending them to hell blind for eternity, I guess, maybe. Yeah, I didn't get what was happening.

I was kind of like, okay, I mean, this, it started out good, but that was just kind of no, no explanation. to the whole thing.

So I was just kind of, I was lost on it. And then from what I understand it, during the credits, I guess they're kind of telling you because of this ritual not happening. Everything bad that happened in the world happened because of this.

That's what I got out of the opening credits. Yeah, I was, I was kind of like, well, why? It was just showing a lot of things that happened bad. in the world, in like in our, in the real world, because they did show a quick, um, flash of, uh, the twin towers when that, uh, second plane hit. Um, and then all of a sudden

there was a nuclear war. And I was like, okay, I was thinking maybe, when you think of the, blind dead, I thought there was going to be like zombies or something running around this. so I was thinking maybe the nuclear war and the fallout and everything turned everyone into zombies, but there's no zombies in this at all. So I was like, okay. They kind of reminded me of the road, how people are just out in the wild, just trying to survive and get all crazy stuff. Because the guy and his daughter, they were on their way to someplace that were calling Paradise. So it was kind of like a,

reminding me of 28 days later when that one dad heard that radio broadcast saying, like, hey, come over here where everything's safe. Yeah, or even the walking dead. Yeah. I forgot what that episode was. So I thought, I was like, okay, and maybe along their way they're going to get in this adventure.

But then they kind of get ambushed out in the woods and they knocked out the dad for a second and they were getting ready to rape the daughter, but then these other people came out of nowhere and killed those rapist dudes and then it come with us. Did the rapist, the main guy that was about the rapist,

did he get excited when he's seen her pregnant belly? I guess. I don't know. And see, I think maybe for me, maybe if there was like an extra 10 or 15 minutes to this movie because this movie was like an hour and 20. I needed a little bit more because there's no explanation on these two main characters.

Like, where's the, where's the wife who impregnated her? Nothing. It's just them. And then you, you barely see anybody else during the movie. So they just wipe out humanity pretty much or what? I figured that's what happened. I mean, I figured this is like maybe like right after everything happened because they weren't, they didn't look too rugged or beat up and that guy's hair wasn't all long and crazy beard or anything.

So I don't know exactly when this took place after the war. But I was like, okay. I mean, there was so many questions in this movie and no answers. So after they get rescued, these other guys, yeah, hey, come with us. Everything's good where we're at. So that daughter and the dad go with them, and then they find out that's some religious cult camp or something living in. Were they in caves or were they like in a castle type thing? They were in the castle thing from the, the, the castle thing from the,

the beginning when this, the original ritual tried to take place. Oh, okay. So it was from there. So obviously, whatever was happened way, way back in the day, that idea was passed on throughout the centuries and still ended up in 2020 with more wacko people that believed in this whole ritual. because they were still trying to appease these demons or whatever if you guys watch that new creep show

how the creeper looks in that that's what this though I think was there was there four of them? Yeah they didn't all look like that did they have silver teeth? I don't know and I felt like they put more because there was there was some

decent practical and here and there and the nights the the the blind dead nights it I felt like they only put most of the effort towards I guess the main one was that the one with the beard yeah yeah because they didn't talk or anything they were just when they had the beer or when they had the babies and they gave them because all those wacko people they chained up the dad

they put the girl in another room with another pregnant girl and then they took the first pregnant girl and tied her up to this big sacrifice looking thing and she had the baby and then the baby was still born

and they gave it to these demon blind demon guys. Yeah, which they did not appreciate the stillborn baby. And I thought this was kind of hardcore. They just tore the baby in half and threw it away. Yeah, I was like, whoa.

You could clearly see it was a doll. But just the whole idea of this, they show that demon, tear that baby in half. I thought that was pretty sweet. Yeah, because that demon, the main one, he was just like, this is not what we asked for. Yeah, because he was looking at it. Then he looked at, I can't remember who handed him the baby. It was that dude. And he was like, what?

He had that like, bitch, please. And then just tore that baby and half and throw it on the ground. And then all hell broke with. So I assume they told him, or I don't know how, but it just kind of like, poor at the end. Because the beginning was just kind of talk, talk, talk. But then once it got towards the end when. the dad who was chained up. I'll give it to this part.

I thought the practical effects were pretty sweet. He had one of his hands handcuffed to like a chain on the wall. And he had to get out of there because he had to save his daughter. So he took a knife. It was his right hand and just split. Did he cut his thumb off? Or did he just cut it? He cut it off.

And I was like, damn man you should have just broke it or dislocated it but yeah that's what i was thinking he cut it straight off i was thinking either yeah try to dislocate it or break it so you can just fold it in and then pull your hand out no he he cut that bad boy off and he was i was feeling his pain because he was just cutting and cutting and then they show that they show it they just opens up and and why did everyone have black blood I guess they were part of the Satan worshiping cult. I guess you had black blood.

I don't know. Yeah. So he does that and then he goes to try to save his daughter. They start killing all the, or he killed a couple guys, but then when he got to the room where those demons were and they, I think they just weren't have it. because then they started to kill everyone.

And they pulled out their swords and started just killing everyone. And everybody was hauling ass out of there. But pretty much a lot of them died. Even the main priest that was preaching about heaven and hell and this and that. And they killed him. But then the girl that was pregnant. A lot of intestines hanging out in this movie. Oh, yeah.

Because, oh, yeah, because he got a cut in the stomach. and it looked like he was just holding it all. And then when the camera got closed, he just dropped it all on the floor. But again, the practical effects were awesome in this. I mean, they really went for it with the decapitations.

And that one demon that grabbed that dude by the jaw and just pulled it open. I was like, ah, that was pretty sweet. I think the first girl, not from the beginning, but the first girl and the present that had the baby,

there was a pretty little nice little throat slit there. That looked pretty decent. Yeah. But while those guys are all running around killing everyone, the dad's still trying to find his daughter. She escapes with some other girl. I don't, I didn't understand.

I just thought she was trying to help her. But that girl turned out to be still. part of this this cult because she uh when the when the the pregnant daughter had the baby she took the baby and gave it uh to those uh demon guys and yeah which i i don't understand because i thought the whole ritual point of it was to please them so they would stop bringing destruction but that's not what it seemed like at the end yeah did it end right when those those monsters had the baby and then that was it when the baby was floating in the air yeah I thought I heard crunching and then that was it

yeah there was like that sound and then like a flash and like the the lady that gave him the baby the one that couldn't speak uh she they heard she was like with two other kids and when the flash happened they just kind of looked away so I don't know if they got taken out or what yeah I was, I was like, what the hell's going on? Because, I mean, it was just all over the place. I mean, towards the end. But I, there was still no explanation on why they were doing this and why these demon guys were still around.

And did that, the girl that gave the baby at the end, I mean, did she get anything out of this? or I don't know what was going on in this film. Yeah, I'm kind of interested in going back

to see maybe maybe they're making this movie based off of the people that are I guess fans of the original series because I'm looking at the original blind dead films were released between

1972 and 75 and they were tombs of the blind dead, return of the blind dead, the ghost of Galeon and Night of the Seagulls and they were all like 70s Spanish horror films so

I kind of feel like maybe they made this movie thinking oh fans of those movies are going to know what's going on I guess we're going to watch those to understand what was happening I mean if they made that many of them yeah because this one this didn't explain anything

it just like happened And it seemed like it was like Like the middle movie of like a trilogy or something like that Yeah so I was I was just more confused on anything But once the the blood and gore and the dismemberment Started happening I was kind of like all right cool I mean this is good but then

I was still like wait what's happening here I mean it was just too many questions and I don't know I was kind of thinking about going back and rewatching the very beginning when it was like way way back in the daytime so I was like maybe I miss something but I don't know

it just the beginning was cool because maybe it explained something the ending was good when all the hell was breaking loose but it was in the middle part that was like what's happening here I mean it was just a lot of talk talk talk and I don't know I just didn't get what was going on so but I don't know I mean this movie is if you guys want to see it I mean maybe foreign your own opinion on what you thought it meant

but yeah dude I think we need to watch those other ones maybe it'll explain more yeah I'm gonna say if if you want to watch this one I think maybe if you haven't seen the original ones try to seek them out because they're, I'm just now, just really thinking about it now. It just kind of seems like just maybe you would have a better understanding of this one. If it's a retelling, then maybe you would just know what's happening because not a lot of explanation in it. But practical effects were pretty good.

Some of the acting was actually pretty good. I thought the main cult guy Because he was giving it his all When he was talking he really sounded like He really didn't sound like he was from the Present day he sounded like he was more from the Where the beginning of the movie took place Yeah

But I'm looking at the poster I mean awesome artwork But I mean Sometimes the posters are misleading I mean it says the curse of the blind dead and it's got one of the demon-looking dudes, but they didn't look like this. You look like the guy from Assassin's Creed.

Yeah, he looked like this. Then I said the lucky ones are already gone, because in the background, it's just like a devastated city. Buildings are pretty much wrecked and on fire, and then there's a dead corpse or whatever at the bottom. Yeah, I could have got more with more expletable. on what happened

because, you know, they're showing stuff that we know that happened in real life and, you know, we're still here, kind of. But yeah, man, I mean, really quick, I mean, the lucky ones are already gone, but

I don't think I would want to survive a nuclear attack. I'd rather just get vaporized. Yeah, because there's nothing left. And clearly there's no food because there was a little bit of cannibalism going on when I got to the cult. And with all these post-apocalyptic movies, the main thing that's in all of them is fucking people are shitty. Yeah, I mean, it turns a world upside down.

And I notice a lot of these ones that, I mean, there's a lot of rapiness going around. Yeah, and like I said, that guy got a little too excited when he's seen a pregnant belly. I was like, ugh. Yeah, I was like, okay, what's happening here? But, yeah, these post-apocalyptic films are crazy. I know there was like a shit ton in the 80s, I mean, of course, with Road Warrior and all that. But as far as the nuclear war films, the only ones I really remember were the day after and that movie Threads. Hmm.

Um, threads was a little more graphic. That was, I think it was in Europe somewhere, but yeah, that one got rapy as well. And, oh, man, but yeah, these, this one, there was just not a lot of explanation on what, what was really going on. Again, I mean, I might have missed it, but I was still like, okay, and why are they doing this? I mean, I can see it happening way, way back in the day, man. there was a lot of craziness going on back then, but continuing it all the way up to, let's just say the present day and this was 2020, but I don't know.

I mean, again, it took all that time to find a baby for the ritual. Yeah, but, or maybe they were doing good when it was normal times, but then after the war, maybe it got a little harder, but you figured those guys would just impregnipregnate all the women that they had so they can give the babies.

But yeah, I mean, going back to the beginning or even later on when that second lady was given birth, why did they look all beat up and why did they look all demonic? Were they possessed or I don't know. Yeah, because their bellies would like all of a sudden have these

like little demonic markings on it like out of nowhere. Yeah. I was I was like, all right, but I don't know. I mean,

this, this one was weird. I don't know what to expect. But, I just want to see those other ones. So make, I assume they'll explain it a lot more. So,

but yeah. I guess that's it. I mean, we just, we just got more questions than answers. But again, I mean, the movie, it was what it was. I mean, they really put their time into the special effects. And to me, I thought that was awesome. All the practical effects in this were good. I mean, they didn't, they, they tore a fucking baby in half and they show it.

So, I mean, that was, that was awesome right there. I mean, of course, it was fake, but that mean. Just a disgust of. the main night. It's just like, what the fuck is this? This is not what I asked for. Yeah, but I mean, again, if you guys want to check it out and you're curious, or maybe you've seen all the other one, the original ones,

and you want to see this, go for it. You'll probably get more out of it than we did because we just didn't understand. So, but again, I like the idea. I liked what was happening. It was just not executed. very well. Or maybe we're missing something. That's about the only way.

But I wouldn't say this movie was just complete bullshit or garbage. But it was, again, we just had more questions than answers than this one. I mean, a lot of these bonus episodes, what we do is leave with questions. But this one was really confusing. Yeah. I say put on an extra 10 minutes, maybe, you know, within that 10 minutes, a couple of montages, you know, some flashbacks. something and I think I would have at least been up to speed a little bit better than I was going into the movie and watching it throughout.

Yeah, so what? Guess with that, unless you got anything else to say, we'd wrap this one up. Yeah, I want to send a special shout out to Katie Armstrong from October Coast. Thanks for letting us watch this movie. As always, you are awesome. Yes, thank you so much And keeps sending them I like watching these movies that don't get a lot of

To use a wrestling term They don't get much of a push So I mean, it's cool I mean because we would never Seek these films out I mean a lot of this stuff I mean all these bonus episodes I've seen some of them now

That are on Blu-ray But I don't I don't think I would ever would have watched them So, but everyone that sends us the screeners, thank you so much and keep them, keep them coming. It's always good because there's always going to be a few gems out of these films we never heard of. But curse of the blind dead, I assume it's on VOD somewhere. It's on VOD and DVD as we speak. Check it out, everyone.

If you like bloody, gory effects, this is the one for you. So check it out. But as far as that. I think that's it. And yeah, what's next for a bonus? Next one, we're going to tackle Dementor. So, and I'm kind of going in, follow all social media accounts.

I post trailers and posters, but I'm kind of going into these like Nes does with very little knowledge of them. So I do not watch the trailers. I'm just going into them with a, fresh outlook and yeah, our next one we're going to tackle it as Dementor.

All right, everyone. Just get ready for that one. I'll have to scroll through everything to find it. But yeah, everyone, just come back next time for another one and check out action returns as well as THR present stream fiends and end

the regular horror return show. And when you're done with all those, shoot on over the Skater Nest podcast. podcast network and check out everything we got there. East Society. We got a regular episode coming. We just kind of gave you guys a quick, I think it was like 20 minutes of an episode of the ZECO on the road. That was episode 220.

So I'm not sure when we're going to exactly do the next one. But yeah, it's coming. So, but yeah, as far as that, everyone, just be safe out there and come back next time. So until then, party on. Yeah. And I second everything he said and make sure you stay safe out there.