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Weirdhouse Cinema: Return of the Blind Dead

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Blindhead Series - I Love the Vampires

Tombs of the blind dead can be read as an analogy of the rising up of old spain against the permissive generation, but also the repressive facism of the franco regime versus the youth of to day. The film attracted two types of very different audiences: hard line facists and young people who just wanted to have fun at the cinema. But it's interesting to place this film at the very end of francisco franco's rule, which ended in 19 75.

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