 Strangely, in 1980, de Ossorio began directing a historical drama entitled "Los Cantabros" ("The Cantabrians"), but he was replaced on the project by Paul Naschy, who agreed to direct the picture if he was allowed to start the whole project from scratch, working up an entirely new screenplay and hiring his own actor friends to replace de Ossorio's cast members.Monsters very similar to de Ossorio's Templar Knights later appeared in two other Spanish horror films, Jesus Franco's film "Mansion of the Living Dead" (1982) and Paul Naschy's film "The Devil's Cross" (1974).Those two films were not connected to de Ossorio's in any way however, they were simply homages.