The Ghost Galleon

Zombies, zombies, zombies. Where, exactly, would horror movies be without that lovable rotting corpse, rising from the grave to greedily feed on the living? Well, we'd probably be stuck with endless vampire movies and a few aliens sprinkled in for good measure...God Bless George Romero! But, as they say, all zombie movies are not created equally and that's the case with The Ghost Galleon.



The Ghost Galleon is the third in Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead series and, so far, it's the weakest. The story is pretty simple: When a publicity stunt goes wrong, four people (the head of a 'major company', his henchman, a friend of one of the 'stunt' women and a fourth woman) all head out to sea to see what might have gone wrong. Well, it turns out that the original duo has stumbled into another dimension, where a ghost ship, filled with the zombie corpses of the Templar Knights ( a group of medieval crusaders who made a deal with the devil to stay alive forever...all they have to do is kill the living and drink their blood). Well, as the group gets picked off one after the other, the movies seems to grow more and more tedious. The suspense really isn't here at all, because we know where all the monsters are, we're just waiting for them to rise up...and waiting...and waiting!

While The Ghost Galleon is pretty daring in taking the franchise in a new direction, that direction is a bit pointless. The first two movies in the Blind Dead series were original and creative and even the sequel took the best parts of the original and built on them. This third installment feels like it was made to keep a profitable series going, and for little reason else.

I'm giving The Ghost Galleon two out of four cigars,

because the story moves nearly as slowly as the Blind Dead themselves, and the horror could have been a bit more...uh...horrible. So, until next time, when we'll try to make sense of some of the most nonsensical movies out there, remember that the best movies are bad movies.