Amando de Ossorio was busy guy during the first half of the ‘70s. He was involved in a franchise of horror flicks that made use of the Templar legend. And if you’re not too familiar with said legend, it goes something like this:
Greedy knights, at one time tied to the Catholic Church become so powerful that the cohort threatens the power structure in Rome. As a result of this, the Templars – who resided in various locales over the expanse of Europe – are exterminated in a single, premeditated swoop. The only problem, as it turns out, is the fact that the since the knights were in cahoots with the devil, they didn’t die properly. Over the ensuing centuries, in inexplicably disparate places, the Templars return to murder some buxom women.
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