Strong suspense with considerable violence by that time : the early and middle Seventies . The plot is plain and simple : a bunch of wealthy businessmen , doctors and military officers who are partying at an old house , then occurs a nuclear accident and subsequently they venture out into the nearest little town to search for supplies as well as food and meet most of the residents blinded by the outbursting . As a catastrophe turns all of humanity into blindness , a group of bourgeois people and prostitutes stay suffering on earth in a post-apocalypse , while becoming themselves into reluctant victims and cruel assassins , then several surprises to take place . Meanwhile , lots of infected people are crawling , shambling , through empty streets , whimpering , pleading , begging for his loves ..Now ... there is nothing between you and ... "the people who own the dark".

Creepy , scary and violent movie in which a bunch of rich businessmen are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth , and they discover the existence of a sinister and brutal group called ¨The People Who Own The Dark¨ . This is an original as well as effective cross-fertilization of doomsday fantasy and Gothic myth . It suggests compellingly the darkest and sinister themes of Richard Matheson 1954 novel , frequently adapted as ¨The last man on Earth¨ . As the story takes parts here and there of ¨The Last man on Earth¨ by Sidney Salkow , ¨The Omega man¨ by Boris Sagal , and ¨The night of living dead¨ by George A Romero . Main cast is pretty good , such as : the veteran Argentine actor Alberto De Mendoza , the extremely gorgeous Nadiuska , the terror legend Jacinto Molina and Maria Perschy who time ago worked for Howard Hawks . And support cast is full of familar faces such as : Teresa Gimpera , Emiliano Redondo , Julia Saly , Ricardo Palacios , Tomás Picó , Diana Polakov , Antonio Mayans , among others . Colorful and atmospheric cinematography by Miguel Milá , shot on location in Torrelodones ,Alcalá de Henares, Miraflores de la Sierra ,Talamanca del Jarama, Madrid . And frightening and suspenseful musical score by by Asins Arbó .

The motion picture was compellingly directed by Leon Klimovsky . This Argentinean filmmaker Leon Klimovsky was a good and prolific craftsman . Klimovsky was born on October 16, 1906 in Buenos Aires, Argentina as León Klimovsky Dulfano . Founded Argentina's first film club in 1929 . Began his film career making short movies . Settled in Spain in the 1950s and became a Spanish citizen . He was a director and writer , known for his terror films as La Noche De Walpurgis (1971), La Orgía Nocturna De Los Vampiros (1973) , La Saga De los Drácula , La Rebelión De Las Muertas , Doctor Jekyll Y Hombre Lobo , but he also directed other genres as Wartime : Operación Rommel , A Ghentar Si Muore Facile , The Legion of No Return ; thriller : Mean Mother ; Western : Reverendo Colt , 2000 dollars for Coyote , Few Dollars for Django, Death Knows No Time , Rattler Kid , A dollar for Sartana ; and Drama : La Casa De Las Chivas , Salto a La Gloria . Rating . 6.5/7 . Decent , almost notable terror and thriller movie .

Ever wanted to see Paul Naschy shoot clay pigeons? Look no further than The People Who Own the Dark, a superior nuclear holocaust thriller from under-appreciated director Leon Klimovsky. Naschy plays Bourn, a military officer who joins several other men at a remote château for a night of depraved debauchery with a group of five beautiful women (one of whom is played by Maria Perschy). Just as the film threatens to head into Jess Franco territory, however, it takes a 180-degree turn when a nuclear explosion damages the house and knocks out the power. Now our group of de Sade wannabes are faced with the greatest challenge of all: surviving the radioactive fallout that's inexorably heading their way--and to make matters worse, the residents of the nearest town have all been blinded as a result of the explosion and have developed some disturbing, zombie-like tendencies. The original Spanish-language version of this film is apparently twelve minutes longer than the English-dubbed cut, but good luck finding it. Presumably the early scenes involving Lenin and Marx make more sense in the uncut version. Then again, maybe not.

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?