Amando de Ossorio

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Amando de Ossorio was one of the foremost Spanish horror film directors during the European horror film surge in the 1970s, known especially for his "Blind Dead" series.

De Ossorio directed a short film in 1956 called "The Black Flag", then spent the next few years doing documentaries and commercials. In 1964, he was hired to direct a few innocuous westerns and comedies, then he moved into horror where he made his mark. Amando de Ossorio complained in interviews that right from the start of his directing career, his producers were always tampering with his projects. His first horror film, Malenka, The Vampire's Niece, was written to be a psychological thriller about a young woman who inherits a castle in Europe and is summarily driven crazy by her uncle who tries to convince her that he and she are both vampires. At the end of the film, the uncle's scheme is revealed and explained by her boyfriend to be a hoax. However, after de Ossorio finished the film, the producers decided to make the uncle an actual vampire and added a low-budget disintegration scene to the English-dubbed prints' finale that completely contradicted the plot.