The ghost ship of floating corpses

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Movie
German title The ghost ship of floating corpses
Original title El Buque maldito
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1974
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16 (new version) or FSK unchecked (long version and uncut version)
Rod
Director Amando de Ossorio
script Amando de Ossorio
production JL Bermudez de Castro
music Antón García Abril
camera Raúl Artigot
cut Petra de Nieva
occupation

The ghost ship of floating corpses (original: El Buque maldito ) is a Spanish horror film by director Amando de Ossorio , who also wrote the screenplay.

The film is the third part of a four-part horror film series, which was made between 1971 and 1975 and is about an exiled order of the Knights Templar , who devoted themselves to the cult of Lucifer with bloodthirstiness and who needed human blood to survive. Amando de Ossorio highlighted those creatures with striking slow-motion scenes.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the uncut version of the film was classified as harmful to young people by the Federal Testing Office for media harmful to young people ( indexing ) because of its “violence-glorifying character” and was confiscated or confiscated according to a court order of the Munich AG 443 Gs 8/87 465 b Js 173061/86 . The then distributor VPS then confiscated all uncut VHS films in circulation at the request of the German authorities in order to exchange them for a shorter version. Nevertheless, the shortened version was also confiscated during this time-consuming exchange campaign. However, the cut DVD versions are not affected by this indexing.

action

As part of a new PR campaign, boat designer and entrepreneur Howard Tucker exposes two female photo models in his ocean-going motorboat on the busy North Atlantic route near Greenland . He hopes that his latest invention and the models can be “rescued” from a ship of the line in a media-effective manner in order to draw attention to the indestructible boat. But the two women report a thick fog bank over the radio and shortly afterwards collide with a rotten sailing ship from the 16th century. The radio communication breaks off and the young women board the mysterious, apparently unmanned ghost ship .

Tucker, a righteous man with political ambitions, then starts a search expedition with a crew of four that can actually track down the medieval sailor. Upon their arrival on board, mummified creatures lying in coffins below deck awaken. These excommunicated undead, forever cursed because of their worship of the devil, crave human blood at night. Photo model Noemi will be her first victim, more victims will follow. Professor Gruber, an expert in parapsychology, uses a found log to identify the beings as exiled Knights Templar, which he can successfully push back with exorcism . In the morning hours, the group sinks the coffins with the sleeping undead into the sea. Then, however, a fire breaks out in which Professor Gruber is killed. The remaining ones, photo model Lillian, Howard and Sergio, jump overboard and try to reach the nearby bank.

In the water there is a scuffle among the three shipwrecked people, in the course of which Lillian stabs the angry Sergio to death in self-defense. While the two survivors reach the shore exhausted and fall asleep, at the end of the film the previously sunk undead rise from the sea and surround the two stranded.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was “a clumsy staged, clumsy horror film in a modification of the vampire motif. “Furthermore, he is“ a continuation of the unappealing series that began in 1971 with ' The Night of the Riding Corpses '. "

Versions

The film exists in different versions with the following running length: 86 min. (new amended version) or 86 min. (Long version of the original) or 85 min. (German uncut version)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The ghost ship of floating corpses. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used