Steineded How sad is this?

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

loveablejohn-26233 This movie was mediocre at best as the dubbing was atrocious and on some shots of the ship they obviously used a model but the other special effects appeared to be well done. The acting and the script could have also used improvement but it did have some tense scenes which is why I gave it 3 stars.

Platypuschow Horror of the Zombies otherwise known as The Ghost Galleon is the third movie in the Blind Dead franchise and presently the lowest rated on IMDB.I loved the first film, I found the second rather disappointing and this deserves its place as the lowest rated. It tells the story of two women out on the ocean who run into a huge galleon. Upon investigating they fall afoul of the Blind Dead and their employers come looking for them.The ship setting was a great idea and had limitless potential but sadly the whole thing is a real sorry swing and a miss.For a start everything looks shoddy, the sfx have taken a step backwards and look terrible. The ominous charm of the franchise is all but gone and truth be told very little actually happens and our ocularly challenged undead friends are barely on screen at all.I can't believe such a great franchise is nose diving so badly, I can only hope the finale ends it on a high but it's not looking good.The Ghost Galleon is a weak entry and an all round pretty lame film.The Good:Some great ideasThe Bad:Timeline is still confusingVery dullLacks everything that made the first movie so effectiveSome beyond bad sfxThings I Learnt From This Movie:A petrol fueled motor boat cannot move out the way of slow moving incoming trafficReligious scientists, still the most baffling oxymoron

AllNewSux This 3rd entry in the Blind Dead series may be the weakest link, but it still has a lot going for it. First of all, like all the films in the series, Ghost Galleon has some of the most original looking zombies ever committed to celluloid. We get to see plenty of them, but at times their presence on a dark boat can be obscured. They also don't turn in any kind of high body count which is what fans expect from a zombie film. This makes it kind of the oddball in this fine quadrilogy, but perhaps De Ossorio was being influenced by Italy's Giallo films at the time and was going more for atmosphere. I say this because this movie is almost pure creepy atmosphere with it's shapes, shadows and sounds. The main setting of the haunted, centuries old ship is also terrific even if the miniature version of the boat looks more like a 4th grade class project. Despite the lack of death, blood and serious action I never once felt the film was boring. The feel of dread and hopelessness kept me wondering who would win the day and the magnificent ending made me proud to be a horror fan.

Michael_Elliott The Ghost Galleon (1974) * (out of 4) The third film in the Blind Dead series has some models getting lost at sea and winding up on a 16th century ship. On board they run into the Templar knights. Pretty soon other people are looking for the ship and the secrets that it holds.The first time I watched this movie it was on VHS under the title of HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES. I had no idea about the Blind Dead series and just found a cheap video with the word zombies in the title so I bought it. I found the movie to be incredibly awful when I was in my teens and time certainly hasn't improved this thing. Considering how good the first two movies were, it's even more shocking at how bad THE GHOST GALLEON is. Even though it features Euro favs Jack Taylor and Maria Perschy, this isn't nearly enough to save a really awful movie.There are all sorts of problems with this film but I guess the majority of it is aimed at the fact that there's really not too much going on. This film obviously suffers from its low-budget, which simply doesn't allow director Amando de Ossorio to do much. It reminds me of those poverty row movies from the 40s that didn't have a budget so they just had people stand around and talk. There's a lot of scenes like this where people just talk about boring things that make you constantly look at the clock. It certainly doesn't help that the characters are extremely boring.As for the Templar knights, whenever they're on the screen they're certainly the most interesting thing. It's really too bad they spend so much time off camera and it should be noted that they only kill one person on screen. This scene is rather effective as is the closing sequence but outside of this there's really not too much going on in this movie.