The Ghost Galleon
- Maria Perschy: Lillian
- Jack Taylor: Howard Tucker
- Manuel de Blas: Sergio
- Carlos Lemos: Professor Gruber
- Bárbara Rey: Noemi
- Blanca Estrada: Katja
- Margarita Merino: Lorena
Ghost Ship of the floating corpses ( Original: El Buque maldito ) is a Spanish horror film directed by Amando de Ossorio, who also wrote the screenplay.
The film is the third part of a four-part horror movie series, which was created 1971-1975 and is about an exiled Knights Templar, the bloodthirsty cult devoted himself to Lucifer and human blood for their survival needs. Amando de Ossorio lifted those creatures produced by striking slow-motion scenes.
In the Federal Republic of Germany the uncut version of the film was classified because of its " violence-glorifying nature " by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young as harmful to minors ( indexing ) and seized 443 Gs 8/87 465 b Js 173061/86 after a court decision of the AG Munich or collected. Then moved the then lender VPS all outstanding uncut VHS movies at the request of the German authorities to exchange this for a gekürztere version. Nevertheless, the abridged version was confiscated during this time-consuming conversion action. The abridged DVD versions are not affected by this indexing.
Action
Boat designer and entrepreneur Howard Tucker is part of a novel PR - promotion two female fashion models in his oceangoing powerboat near Greenland on the busy North Atlantic route. He hopes that his latest invention, along with the models can be media attention " rescued" by a ship of the line to draw attention to the indestructible boat. But the two women report via radio a dense fog bank and collide shortly thereafter with a rotten sailing ship from the 16th century. Radio traffic from breaking and the young women embark on board the mysterious, apparently unmanned ghost ship.
Tucker, a righteous man with political ambitions, then starts with a four -man crew, a search expedition, which can actually track the medieval sailors. Upon their arrival on board awaken mummified creatures that are located below deck in coffins. These excommunicated and because devil worship forever cursed undead lust for human blood at night. The first victim is the photo model Noemi, followed by other victims. Professor Gruber, an expert in parapsychology, identified using a logbook found the essence as exiled Knights Templar, which he can successfully push back with exorcism. The group sunk into the morning hours, the coffins with the sleeping undead in the sea. Then, however, a fire breaks out, perish in the Professor Gruber. The remaining ones, photo model Lillian, Howard and Sergio, jump overboard and try to reach close to shore.
In the water there is a scuffle, Lillian stabs you in the course of which the angry Sergio in self-defense among the three castaways. While the two survivors exhausted and fall asleep to reach the shore, rising at the end of the film, the previously buried undead out of the sea and change the two castaways.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was a " clumsy staged, plumper horror film in a modification of the vampire motif. " In addition, he was "a continuation of that little handsome series, with in 1971, The Night of the riding corpses ' began. "
Versions
The film exists in several versions with the following running time: 86 min. ( new revised version ), or 86 min. ( Long version of the original) or 85 min. ( German Uncut Version)