[Inspector Abberline]

Tombs Of The Blind Dead.(1972)
Two old school friends, Betty and Virginia bump into each other at a holiday resort, turns out they were lovers at boarding school so they decide (as you do) to go away together, with Virginia bringing along her boyfriend Roger. Virginia unable to confront her past mixed with Roger's flirtation with Betty, decides to jump off the train, and wouldn’t you know it, she ends up in some dingy old ruins. Needless to say it’s not to long before cardboard tombstone's are a wobbling and boney hand’s are emerging from polystyrene crypt’s, all the while Virginia is listening to the latest euro hits on her portable radio, not realising there are some gate crashers on horseback,(where the horses came from I have know idea) But it’s not long before she is set upon by the slowest zombie's you have ever seen, so it’s a good job Virginia is such a clumsy mare otherwise the slow mo chase scenes would take up all the running time. It maybe just me but what I love about these movies, especially from the early to mid 1970’s is that they defy not only normal film conventions but are completely the opposite of what movies are today. The scene in mortuary, for example, when Betty and Roger go to identify the body of Virginia, the mortuary attendant gleefully pulls the sheet away only to reveal the wrong body, a bizarre WTF moment if ever there was one, although the frog jumping in a pool of blood was a close second. For all it’s macabre madness, some of it is like watching Pythons Holy Grail, with a smidgen of “of no one expects the Spanish inquisition” thrown in for good measure...I Also love the way a professor manages to explain how the blind dead capture people, by having exceptionally good hearing, truly bonkers....