In director Amando de Ossorio’s beloved 1972 cult zombie horror film Tombs of the Blind Dead (aka The Blind Dead), unlucky wanderers end up in a crumbling Templar crypt, only to awake the moldering, skeletal and blind ghouls that sleep within.
Ossorio’s signature opus would spawn three more Templar companion films: 1973’s Return of the Evil Dead (aka Attack of the Blind Dead), 1974’s The Ghost Galleon (aka Horror of the Zombies) and 1975’s Night of the Seagulls.
In Don’t Breathe, a gaggle of young, thrill-seeking Detroit thugs break into a blind war vet’s home to rob him, well, blind.
Often dismissed as a Latin redux of George A. Romero’s groundbreaking zombie shocker Night of the Living Dead, Tombs of the Blind Dead is something richer, darker and ripe with atmosphere.