
Amando de Ossorio
Directing
Biography
Amando de Ossorio was one of the foremost Spanish horror film directors during the European horror film surge in the 1970s, known especially for his "Blind Dead" tetralogy.
Known For

A beautiful virgin inherits a castle, but when she arrives at it, she finds that the inhabitants include a strange nobleman and a bevy of beautiful women she suspects may be vampires.
Fangs of the Living Dead

Eurotika is a Channel 4 documentary film on European exploitation cinema. The documentary is similarly themed to Pete Tombs's book Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984. During the 1960s and 1970s, European low-budget films went kinky, emerging as a new type of cinema that blended eroticism, surrealism, horror, and over-the-top atmospherics.
Eurotika!

Tom Bogard travels from Boston to the small western mining town of Carson, where on arrival he mentions he is the brother of Jack Bogard, who was assassinated a few weeks ago, he then is completely shut out. By no means anxious to leave, Tom begins to look for people who will be able to tell him about the death of his brother...
Tomb of the Pistolero

After an old witch desecrates a church and abducts a baby, the police take her in for questioning, leading her to attempt suicide. To exact revenge, a fellow witch curses the police commissioner's daughter, and as the old witch dies, her spirit latches onto the young girl and causes her to wreak havoc.
Demon Witch Child

In 13th century Berzano, a legion of knights known as the Templar were executed for conducting black magic rituals and committing human sacrifices in a quest for eternal life. 700 years later, they rise from the dead and attack a group of vacationing college students who visit the remains of their abandoned monastery.
Tombs of the Blind Dead

After a pair of models go missing from a boat, a rescue party discover an empty galleon carrying the coffins of the long dead Knights Templar. The rescue party board the galleon and then discover their own boat has vanished. The survivors struggle to fight off the spectral knights with what little knowledge they have of them.
The Ghost Galleon

Teresa, a cabaret star, has to leave her work due to the death of her father. She decides to go to the small village where he lived to meet her brother, Miguel, who is going to marry Marisol soon. Teresa begins to feel attracted to Miguel, and tries to seduce him
Forbidden Passion

Nearly a half-millenium after they were blinded and executed for committing human sacrifices, a band of Templar knights returns from the grave to terrorize a rural Portuguese village during its centennial celebration. A small group of people take refuge in a deserted cathedral and must find a way to escape from the creatures.
Attack of the Blind Dead

Hudson river fur hunters rebel against their English masters in this pre-Blind Dead effort from de Ossorio. Victor, chief of the rebels, kidnaps Ann from the ruthless landowner, Sullivan, as a bartering tool. Ann and Victor, in love, fight together against Sullivan for a free life together.
Hudson River Massacre

A group of researchers gathering material for a magazine article on endangered wildlife encounter vampiric leopard women in the heart of the African jungle.
The Night of the Sorcerers

During the Civil War, Union Corporal MacDonald is entrusted with a large shipment of gold. He decides to keep the cargo, and stashes it for later rescue. He is the only one who knows where it's buried, but is killed. A Union Lieutenant and McDonald's two sons race to find out where the gold is buried.
Patience Has a Limit, We Don't

A bizarre cult that practices a ritual of sacrificing humans terrorizes a young doctor and his wife, who have just moved to the group's village.
Night of the Seagulls

In this film Paul Naschy embodies the Roman general Agrippa Vipsanio in a fierce battle against the tribal leaders Cantabrians, Corocota. Fierce battles, gladiators fighting, adventure and intrigue in this film as in the Roman conquest of Hispania.
The Cantabrians

An orphan child arrives at a house courtyard where the neighbours must organise a flamenco show to avoid the house from being sold by its owner...
La niña del patio

A serpent, created by radioactivity, threatens a Spanish coastal town.
The Sea Serpent

The legendary Loreley has been living for centuries in a grotto beneath the river Rhein in Germany. Every night when the moon is full, she turns into a reptile-like creature craving for human blood. When one girl after another of a nearby boarding school is killed by her, a hunter named Sigurd is engaged to kill the monster.
The Loreley's Grasp

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Hospital de urgencia

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La ciudad de los sueños

Two bandits steal a number of gems and other valuable art from a museum in the Dominican Republic. They are helped by their American partner, Tom who double-crosses them and escapes with the stolen treasure.
Las alimañas

In the Thirteenth century, a group of Satan worshipers, the Knights Templar, are 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 and the nearby forest. Centuries later, in a post-apocalyptic future, a man and his daughter try to survive against both the undead Knights and a sect commanded by a mad preacher.