'Horror Rises from the Tomb' (1977) – Carlos Aured.

'Horror Rises from the Tomb' remains one of my favourite, Carlos Aured/Paul Naschy horror collaborations. Their gratuitously gruesome, sensationally Satanic splatter opus stars, and is written by charismatic terror polymath, Paul Naschy! This bravura tale of macabre, black magic fuelled cruelty contains all the horrifically stomach-churning hallmarks of a gore-drenched, grisly-gothic, Paul Naschy classic! Featuring one of vintage horror's more profane protagonists, the revenge of the delightfully despicable, ferociously foul-hearted, crypt-dwelling cannibal killer, Alaric de Monsac, is not soon forgotten!!! This vile necromancer assisted in his perfidy by his breathlessly beauteous, and no less degenerated consort, Mabille (Helga Line). Finally found guilty of the most abominable heresies, their reign of tyranny coming to a suitably bloody end, these two wanton degenerates are sentenced to death!

Alaric is ritualistically decapitated, his severed head buried separately, the God-fearing folk hopeful this might finally rid them of this foul warlock. Happily, you can't keep a good devil-worshipping B-Movie despot down, and many centuries later the headless heretic has his Satanic slumbering dramatically disturbed via the age-old celluloid catalyst of a candle-lit séance. Nightmarishly awakened, Alaric's powerful spirit overwhelms those that have so foolhardily revived him! His mesmeric persona, manipulating them into Satanic murder zombies, all wholly subservient to Alaric's vengeful will! Evilly possessed by forces beyond the grave, these grim ambulatory horrors proceed to unthinking perpetrate Alaric's gruesome revenge in, Carlos Aured's magnificently malevolent supernatural 70s Euro-shocker 'Horror Rises from the Tomb'.