cult film freak: ELISA VELA WITH LINA ROMAY IN 'MANSION OF THE BLIND DEAD'

Written by James M. Tate / 1/24/2026 / No comments / antonio mayans , eighties , elisa vela , eva león , exploitation , fantasy , jesús franco , lesbian , lina romay , mari carmen nieto , spanish horror

ELISA VELA WITH LINA ROMAY IN 'MANSION OF THE BLIND DEAD'

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Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead/La mansión de los muertos vivientes Year: 1983 Rates: ***

Infamously campy Spanish Exploitation-Horror director Jesús Franco's MANSION OF THE BLIND DEAD is really a rural beachfront hotel where four beautiful women... two chunky-hot blondes and two perfect-bodied model brunettes... check into two different rooms, two at a time: each of the blondes kissing their own brunette — until the token first-girl wanders off alone...

As Mari Carmen Nieto far too quickly dies after happening upon a nearby monastery, which happens off-screen... providing looser blonde Albino Graziani an anticipated sacrifice/encounter with the titular medieval knight zombies straight from Amando de Ossorio's 1970's BLIND DEAD franchise (here resembling cheap skeleton mannequins created for a last-minute Halloween party)...

Lina Romay and Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead

That other blonde Lina Romay survives by becoming violently possessed: intensely morphing into a formidable final girl murdering final friend (and one of the all-time sexiest Spanish actresses) Elisa Vela...

Having adhered to a central Gothic romance with handsome hotel manager Antonio Mayans (keeping another naked blonde locked in his room), overall scene-stealing Romany now haunts the hotel's eerily red-lit hallways — in a low-budget fantasy/slasher that's both tremendously shoddy and hypnotically mesmerizing.

Mari Carmen Nieto and Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead

Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead

From Mansion of the Living Dead

Lina Romay in Mansion of the Living Dead

Antonio Mayans in Mansion of the Living Dead

Eva León in Mansion of the Living Dead

Lina Romay in Mansion of the Living Dead

Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead

Mabel Escaño and Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead

Mari Carmen Nieto and Lina Romay in Mansion of the Living Dead

Mabel Escaño and Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead

Lina Romay and Elisa Vela in Mansion of the Living Dead

Lina Romay and Antonio Mayans in Mansion of the Living Dead

Mari Carmen Nieto and Lina Romay in Mansion of the Living Dead

Mari Carmen Nieto in Mansion of the Living Dead

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