Tombs of The Blind Dead - Production

Production

The Spanish version, La Noche del Terror Ciego, differs from the English version Tombs of the Blind Dead. The English version moves a flashback of the Knights Templar (still alive) torturing a victim to the start of the film as well as removed most of the gore (in particular, the train car massacre sequence removes a sequence where a woman holding her daughter is murdered in front of her child).

The film nearly ended up being severely rewritten for its English language release, to turn it into a "Planet of the Apes" cash-in. The original plan for its US release, was that the film would be completely re-written to be a post-Apocalyptic future where the undead would be deceased intelligent apes similar to the ones seen in Planet of the Apes. This was ultimately aborted however, though location footage scenes from the film were edited together and a narration explaining the premise was commissioned and finished before the decision was made to simply adapt the original script.

The Blue Underground DVD contains both versions of the film (though the original Spanish version is subtitled only) and the unused "Planet of the Apes" opening sequence.