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 The House by the Cemetary (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Release Date: 1981 / Acors: Katherine MacColl, Paolo Malco, Giovanni Frezza, Dagmar Lassander, Lucio ... more  The House by the Cemetary (DVD) ... Fulci / Dr. Norman Boyle (Paolo Malco), of the New York Historical Society, accepts a research assignment abandoned by a colleague who has committed suicide. The project requires the researcher to temporarily take up residence in a New England mansion along with his wife, Lucy (Katherine MacColl) and their son, Bob (Giovanni Frezza). Norman discovers his colleague had become consumed with the history of the home's original owner, a turn-of-the-Century surgeon named Dr. Freudstein who possessed a fondness for illegal experiments. Further investigation reveals Freudstein had found a way to stay alive by using cells derived from fresh human blood. The Boyles find out the hard way that the maggot-stuffed, undead doctor remains lurking in the shadows of the house, killing anybody who crosses his path. While the plot does at times lose itself to vagueness and the inexplicable, Italian director Lucio Fulci reinforces his Godfather Of Gore moniker as visceral sequences (human mutilation aplenty, along with a gut-wrenching decapitation) unfold before the camera in the maestro's customary extreme close-up style. Made during the height of his career, HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY is one of Fulci's most admired favorites. A percentage of the film's popularity must also be credited to the inadvertently humorous English dubbing of Italian child star Giovanni Frezza's Bob character, performed by a much older female actress.Newest Review: ... Shining; the family moving into a nasty house with a grisly cellar is from The Amityville Horror. Add to that hints of ... more ... Lovecraft (the New England setting), Stoker (it's set in a town called Whitby) and Mary Shelley (there's a 'Dr Freudstein' involved) and you have to wonder how Fulci thought he was going to get away with it. But the story is told with enough flair that it doesn't greatly matter where it came from.
This doesn't have the kind of unrestrained splatter Fulci used in Zombie Flesh Eaters, but it does have some remarkably bloody deaths, including a great throat skewering and a more than competent throat slashing. But apart from th...more |
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The House by the Cemetary (DVD): Something ugly in the cellar (752 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 09.03.08 (Very useful, 100 readings)
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A review of just the film - there are plenty of different DVD releases available, but the one I have is from the cheaper end of the market, and isn't worth reviewing as a DVD. Another video nasty, an Italian frightener from 1981. The director, Lucio Fulci, directed three or four very good horrors in the early 80s. This ticks most of the boxes, having gore, a menacing atmosphere and some great scares - if it had only made me feel genuinely uneasy it would belong with the true greats of the genre. A professor of some kind goes to stay in a rural house with his wife and young son, to continue the work of a recently deceased colleague. The house soon ...
Location Location Location (1614 words)
by 3rd Rock Satan - written on 31.01.05 (Very useful, 76 readings)
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Well, come on. If you decide to live in an old abandoned house by a mass cemetery surrounding the place then you’re bound to be asking for trouble. House by the Cemetery certainly adheres to that forgone conclusion to become another zombie flick from Lucio Fulci. This film is loosely linked to three other zombie flicks in the series, Zombie Flesh Eaters, The Beyond and City of the Living Dead and is no relation to House on the Edge of the Park. They don’t carry on in terms of story but all have the same basic elements lent to one another. Despite it being released theatrically in Britain it still got dubbed as a ‘video nasty’ and therefore got hold of some notoriety when ...
The House by the Cemetary (DVD): Maggot mania (506 words)
by Beggar James - written on 19.04.01 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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Euro gore-a-go-go ! Yes that's Fulci time again ! So we got the nonsense plot, the wacky camera work and, of course, the carnage. The plot, if you're interested: despite the warnings, a young professor and his family move into the house with the titular location. Sadly for them, the sinister estate agent failed to mention that the house's previous inhabitant, the illustrious yet infamous Dr. Freudstein, is still living in the basement. Well, not living as such, but he's still shuffling around as a decomposing zombie, killing and mutilating all those unfortunate to stumble across him. As the corpses pile up, the family realise with horror the ...
The House by the Cemetary (DVD) : Don't go down the basement.from Bish
01.02.2001
The House by the Cemetary (DVD) : Must Kill BOB!!!from rmay666
20.02.2002
