Horror Rises from the Tomb (Spanish: El espanto surge de la tumba), is a 1972 Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 starring Jacinto Molina (also known as Paul Naschy

Paul Naschy

Paul Naschy was a Spanish movie actor, screenwriter, and director working primarily in horror films. His portrayals of numerous classic horror figures—the wolfman, the hunchback, Count Dracula, the mummy—have earned him recognition as the Spanish Lon Chaney...

) and was directed by Carlos Aured. It was followed by a sequel, Panic Beats

Panic Beats

Panic Beats , is a 1983 Spanish horror film starring Jacinto Molina which he also directed. It is a sequel to the 1972 film Horror Rises from the Tomb.-Plot:...

. The film introduced Naschy's character of Alaric de Marnac, an executed warlock who returns to life centuries later to wreak his revenge. De Marnac later returned in the 1982 sequel "Panic Beats".