Doctor Henry Stein (Victor Petit) and his wife Joan (Maria Kosti) move to a remote fishing village. Henry is to be the new doctor. The reception he receives from the people in the village is hostel. The local cripple, Teddy (Jose Antonio Calvo) comes to the doctor’s office. He is hurt from being attacked by some of the locals. Joan takes pity on him and dresses his wounds.
Later that night Joan is awakened by noise coming from the beach. Henry and Joan investigate the noises. They see a small procession of old ladies. Henry believes that it is just a local ceremony to ensure good fishing. They return to the house. The procession chains a young woman to a rock near the sea as zombies from a nearby castle arise from their tombs. The reanimated Templars take the woman back to their castle and sacrifice her to their pagan god.
The next day, while trying to shop at the local market Joan is basically ignored. A resident, Lucy (Sandra Mozarowsky) comes to her aid. Lucy lives alone and needs a job, so Joan hires her to help with the housekeeping. That night a girl, Tilda (Julia Saly) comes knocking on the Stein’s door looking for refuge. Her parents show up and take her away. She is then given to the zombies as a sacrifice.
The next night Teddy tells Henry and Joan that every year seven young women on seven nights must be given to the reanimated Templers for sacrifice. If they are not given their sacrifices the zombies will invade the village and kill everyone in it. Later the villagers take Lucy away to sacrifice her to the zombie crusaders.
“Night of the Seagulls” AKA “La noche de las gaviotas” AKA “Don't Go Out at Night” AKA “Night of the Death Cult” was released in 1975 and was directed by Armando de Ossorio. It is a Spanish horror movie and the fourth and last Ossorio film from the “Blind Dead” series. The other films in the series were “Tombs of the Blind Dead” 1972, “Return of the Blind Dead” 1973 and “The Ghost Galleon” 1974.
This installment of zombie Templars is better than the last one but falls a little short from the first and second movies. They’re not actually called Templars in the movie, nor are their uniforms totally standard for the order but they are close enough for them to be widely referred to as Knights Templar. This Order worships a strange bug-eyed fish deity and, although near the sea, they spend their dormant time in castle tombs. Some footage from “Tombs of the Blind Dead” 1972 is used.
There is more blood than in the previous installment but less than the first two films. The same with the nudity. Although not a strong contender to the franchise, everything is a notch better than the third film. The zombie Templars look a little dustier than previous forms. The make-up is decent but not as impressive as when they started out. It appears that the budgets got a little smaller as the movies went along. Still, the story is not bad, and it is a decent end to the franchise.