Monday, June 6, 2022

'Night of The Seagulls' (1975) – Amando De Ossorio.

One of the most revered and iconoclastic horror sagas creepily concludes in a fascinatingly grim, Lovecraftian manner with the relentlessly bleak 'Night of The Seagulls'. Maestro Ossorio wastes very little time tightening his tourniquet of terror, as during the very first ill-omened night the earnest young doctor (Victor Petit) and his beautiful wife (Maria Kosti) spend in their dilapidated new home, the anxious couple's fitful slumber is eerily interrupted by the mournful discords of their sombrely perambulating neighbours accompanying the first of seven terrified, diaphanously garbed girls to an icily exposed, brine-lashed rock, callously bound there to await a monstrous fate worse than even the most grievous imaginings!

'Night of The Seagulls' is a singularly oppressive horror film, wholly unleavened by humour, the cruel, arbitrary torture of pathetic, forlorn disabled Teddy (José Antonio Calvo), its gruesome blood rituals, psychopathically inhospitable villagers, the monochromatic, purgatorial desolation of the musty, ruinous fishing hamlet, and Antón García Abril's darkly baroque, palpably unsettling score offers no respite from the Templar's unspeakably sordid maledictions! Horribly claustrophobic, Amando De Ossorio's crepuscular, fiendishly forbidding, stiflingly doom-laden occult nightmare 'Night of The Seagulls' is all too briefly illuminated by the incandescent beauty of exquisite screen siren Sandra Mozarowsky. 

'A more funereal, cold-bloodedly oppressive Lovecraftian nightmare might be impossible to imagine!' - Weirdlingwolf - Dirty Kunst Video.

 

 























 

 

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