6.2.10

the ghost galleon (1974)

AKA El buque maldito. Ghost Ships of the Blind Dead. Horror of the Zombies. La noche del buque maldito. Ship of Zombies. The Blind Dead 3. Zombie Flesh Eater.
"Those who have seen it up close never return."

A publicity stunt to promote a motor boat goes wrong when the two models aboard encounter a seemingly deserted galleon and subsequently disappear. A search party, (including Jack Taylor and Maria Perschy) is sent to look for them but end up in trouble when they locate the ship and find it manned by undead, knights Templar intent on sucking their blood.

The third part of the Blind Dead series has a stupendously stupid premise where the zombie crusaders decide to take to the high seas and become sailors. The idea that an advertising agency would promote a boat by stranding two women in it just hints a the ludicrousness of the plot. Would you buy a boat that doesn't seem to work? But that aside this takes far too long to get going, and the slow, creepy atmosphere it tries to maintain just doesn't work for me. One for people who love low low budget and plotted films where scantily clad women wander about a lot oblivious to the obvious danger.

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