The People Who Own the Dark

Original title: Último deseo

19761976
RR
1h 22m

A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for... Read allA group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the ex... Read allA group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.

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Director
- León Klimovsky
Writers
- Gabriel Moreno Burgos(story)
- Vicente Aranda(screenplay)
- Joaquim Jordà(screenplay)
Stars

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Teresa Gimpera, Diana Polakov, and Leona Devine in Último deseo (1976)

Ricardo Palacios and Emiliano Redondo in Último deseo (1976)

Julia Saly and Maria Perschy in Último deseo (1976)

Julia Saly and Nadiuska in Último deseo (1976)

A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark. —Anonymous

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Taglines
- Now ... there is nothing between you and ... "the people who own the dark"
Genres
- Horror
- Sci-Fi
Certificate
- R
Parents guide

Trivia
The English dubbed version released in the United States as "The People Who Own the Dark" had a replacement score that included music cues from "The Blob" (1958).

Alternate versions
The Spanish language print runs 94 minutes. When the film was released in the US it was dubbed in English and ran approximately 82 minutes and it was this shorter, re-edited version that was released onto home video in the states. The English version is not missing any violence and retains almost all the nudity, but several scenes are trimmed mostly of some dialog.

Connections
Edited from The Blob (1958)

Top review

6/10

Tombs of the Blind Living

This film might play as some kind of parable about the rich and the poor, or perhaps the Franco regime, or some crap like that. What we in the instant world of 2018 need to know is: are there plenty of boobs and gore in this film?

The answer of course is there's some boobs and not a lot of gore, but it's worth a watch anyway. It's got Paul Naschy in it. And he's plays a complete jerk.

He's a Baron or something of a huge villa where the rich go to play out weird sex games in the basement. We get to meet our elite first - a couple of doctors, a lawyer, the Madame who runs the plays, and we get to meet out hookers: the red-head, the blonde one, the black one and I think at least two were gay as well. I've got to admit the film does spend quite a bit of time establishing why we should this lot before the men all don weird masks and the women throw on see-through gowns and head to the cellar.

It's lucky for them that while they're down there a nuclear war breaks out and everyone 'up top' is blinded by the flash. Our rich folk/hooker team head back upstairs to find the help staggering about blind, and do what any rich enclave would do: Head into town to steal all the food from all the blind people that clearly need help while also killing a few of those blind folk and causing a huge siege situation back at the mansion. Remember those poor folks in Day of the Triffids? Well, imagine a really angry, violent version of them and you've got this film.

People compare this to Night of the Living Dead and Last Man on Earth and that's because it is basically those films, only with Paul Naschy and the priest guy from Horror Express in it. That doesn't mean it's a bad film though. It's good. I still haven't watched a Paul Naschy film I haven't liked, and this one seems to have a bigger budget than most. Who doesn't want to see a bunch of angry blind people get their own back on a bunch of jerks?

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