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Burial Ground - Night of Terror
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| So "Bad" it's actually Dreamlike!! | 2010-07-27 | 4 / 5 |
| The film opens with a very moody and atmospheric prologue in which an eerrie looking bearded gent ( who resembles the famed medieval seer Nostrodamous )emphaticaly declares "I am the only one who knows the secret! Incredible! Incredible!! Yet it's true! It must be!!" He then trecks to an archeological excavation site and then, while hammering some rock, encounters a horrifying apparition with the aspect of an ancient decayed cadaver,.. standing,..and then walking toward him!! Then the title and the the main "story" unfolds,.. and this interesting character is barely even heard of again nor is this declared "secret" of his ever divulged. The remainder of the film concerns a party of vacationers, including a mother and her young son, who arive at a ruraly-secluded chateau. After a single night of romance and eros and morning of frolickry in the garden,.. the horror transpires!! Firstly, the chateaus entire electrical system is obliterated by a supernaturaly-charged power surge,.. thus plunging the ill-fated protagonists into darkness!! Then, they are beset by a teeming mass hord of numerous beings with rotted visages and wearing fetid sackcloths (shall we call them "zombies"? )who immerse the doomed protagonists in a terrible onslaught of grisly death in divers fashion ( beheading,impalement,mastication,dissmemberment,dissembowelment ),.. hence Burial Ground is, quite simply, a slaughter film,.. it's purpose being to depict the gruesome deaths of it's protagonist "characters" ( it even ends very abruptly right when the last remaining cast member is murderd,.. the whole closing credit roll being opticaly imposed over a freeze shot of her death scene ),.. yet still, be that as it may, it actually does have it's few truely creepy, pretty frightening ( the appearance of the first zombie, during the opening prologue sequence, is quite frightening )and creative moments ( mostly displayed in the numerous death scenes on which the film, again, is mainly focused )and a truely dreamlike quality over-all.
Something must also be said for the zombies in this film,.. they are clever and resourceful ( certainly more so than in most other movies ). For example, in what is the films most imaginative death scene,they captivate a victim ( located in a high window and attempting to close a shutter ) by nailing her hand to a wall with a spike thrown from a distance and apparently with supernatural agility and force. She is then decapitated with a scythe ( with a VERY long stem ). They also gain entry into the locked up chateau by chopping away the barricades with axes and even battering the door in with a ram. And,in another scene,even ensnare some fleeing victims by decoying as a groupe of praying monks in an old monestary.
The music of the film is also notable and worth some description here. For the more harrowing and grisly scenes theres what sounds like old fashiond 1950's/60's style monster movie theme music ( which was probably left over from another older film )complete with a howling theramin, an unearthly and eerrily beautiful synth score used for the more sedately creepy scenes ( including the previously related prologue sequence involving the profesor character and also during the closing production credits ), a luscious piano score for the more passionate scenes, and a jazz score ( also probably canned and played mainly during the opening tittle and cast credits ).
And theres the dialogue!! Ahhh yes, we do have some truely wonderful and memorable bad dialogue here indeed!! So much so, in fact,that I even think that some sample quotes are definately in order! For example, theres .....
"We've wasted an entire morning inside! Why did we come to the country?! To twiddle our thumbs cooped up in a mausoleum?!
.. or how about .....
"Well I've always been just TERRIFIED of the dead! I hope we're going to leave them in peace!
.. or try ........
"Ohhhhh GOD!!!!! What is it???!!!!!!! Ohhhh Mark,.. it's HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!
"I dont know!!!!! ... But it's not human!!!!!! It's a walking CORPSE!!!!!!
"Ohhhhh,.. Mark!!!!!! Ohh God, I'm just TERRIFIED Mark!!!!!
.. but, great as those above-quoted lines may be, the single BEST line of dialogue in this movie is without a doubt .............
"(whiff.. whiff ) .. Moma,.. this old cloth,.. smells of death?!
... all of it deliverd in truely AWFUL dubbed voices!! SO terrible, in fact, that they actualy sound like the voices of demented cartoon characters!! And some of the worst "dramatic" facial mugging too( I realize it's stoopid and unfair to judge acting on the basis of dubbed dialogue, but one can really tell if a foreighn film is terribly acted or not by studying the FACIAL EXPRESIONS ).
Burial Ground is most certainly a film which the normal average movie viewer would call a "bad" film, as it does feature terrible performances and virtualy no plot,.. yet strangely that actually kind of WORKS for it! As I'de noted previously, one of it's cooler points is it's authenticaly weird dreamlike, or better yet nightmarish quality,.. and this is that very rare and exceptional kinde of film in which a lack of plot actually ENHANCES that quality ( Well THINK about it,.. have YOU ever had an actual DREAM with a PLOTline? .. I surely never have ). Oh, and this film also has an element of pervers sexuality in the presence of a young boy ( conspicuously portrayed by a creepy looking adult midget named Peter Bark ) with an oedipal longing for his mother,.. or more specificaly, a yearn to be breast-fed by her, which gives it a marked quality of dementedness. A truely esoteric cult "bad" horror film for slightly deranged fans ONLY.
P.S. My sole complaint about this DVD version here is that it does not feature the neato original poster art ( as my old vhs copy does ), instead featuring this stoopid and tacky still-photo on it's cover! I do hope that'll be corrected in some future edition.
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| buried in vhs. | 2010-05-26 | 3 / 5 |
| i once rented this film from a mom&pop video store in west covina in the mid 1990's
on vhs and the only element i liked was the midget baby biting moms breast scene.the rest of this film is an insult to zombie holocaust and fulci's zombie in one boring shot. please don't waste your time and/or money on this one. stick with lucio fulci zombie (blue-underground's print is your best bet),considering it has been in'n'out of print for the last thirty years) if you can find the wizard video uncensored edition from the mid 1980's GOOD LUCK!! it is a goldmine collectors
wet dream!! |
| For nostalgia purposes only. | 2009-09-15 | 2 / 5 |
| The Nights of Terror (Andrea Bianchi, 1981)
I'm not going to sit here and tell you that The Nights of Terror (released in most English-speaking countries under the more appropriate name Burial Ground) is a great movie. Far from it, in fact. It's a terrible movie, painfully derivative of Fulci's Zombi 2, but without the quality of acting that distinguishes that one. Still, though, it was one of the first (if not the very first) Italian horror films I ever saw, and because of that, it still holds a special place in my heart almost thirty years later. I watched it again last night for the first time in I don't know how long, and I still find it appealing. Not nearly as much so as I did in the early eighties, naturally, because now I know more about the films that it siphoned so much of its content from (Zombi 2 is only the beginning on that score), but there's a lot of downright twisted stuff going on here that still makes it fascinating, and while Bianchi comes from the Fulci "let's apply make-up with a trowel" school, he did improve a lot on the zombie make-up anyway.
The film opens with Professor Ayres (Raimondo Barbieri in his first film role), an archeologist studying (we are later told) the ancient Etruscans, making a discovery of some sort in his notes, then scurrying off to his dig site in order to try and find something. (We are never apprised of what either of those somethings is.) While digging, he's attacked by a group of zombies and killed. Meanwhile, back at the mansion, a group has arrived for a vacation. They are welcomed by the new servants, Nicholas (Fatal Fix's Claudio Zucchet) and Kathleen (Anna Valente in her only screen appearance), and settle in to wait for the professor and indulge in some gratuitous sex. They then head outside to frolic in the sun (and for more gratuitous sex, of course), except that the frolicking is cut short by zombie attacks. Everyone who survives eventually finds his or her way back into the mansion, where they have to find a way to fend off the zombies. This would be a lot easier, naturally, if they weren't all complete idiots.
Yes, it's beyond bad, but it's so far beyond bad that you just can't stop watching. There's a kid (actually a twenty-five-year-old actor, reportedly) who bears a striking resemblance to Dario Argento and has a serious Oedipal complex, a re-creation (with a lower budget) of Zombi 2's infamous eye scene, zombie monks with papier-mache masks, plot threads that simply disappear, lack of communication among all the characters (wouldn't it be valuable to know that zombies burn?), and a lot of unexplained zombie appearances in places they shouldn't be. There was no thought given to continuity here, no ideas about coming up with a believable, or even serious, script, no attempt at making a decent movie. Bianchi, whose other classics include Strip Nude for Your Killer and Massacre, tossed this one off for a quick buck while everyone in Italy was making zombie movies, and it looks like it. But it's so awful that it's unintentionally funny for much of its length, and when screenwriter Piero Regnoli (who would later team up with Fulci for Voices from the Beyond) gets his weird on in the third act of this tragicomedy, he goes way, way over the top. It's an adorable little movie as long as you're in the proper mood for it. Unless you saw it as a kid and have the nostalgia bug, the only proper mood, however, is "drunk". * ½
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| A Pretty Crappy Zombie Film!!! | 2009-03-01 | 2 / 5 |
| | I remember watching this last year when we got out of high school because of a freak snow storm. (Good times!) Some parts are kind of boring. There are some good gore scenes. The story is about some people staying at a mansion, then zombies turn up to eat them. There is a love story about a kid who wants to make sweet passionate love with his mom. So if you are fans of gore, zombies, and incest, then you might like BURIAL GROUND: NIGHT OF TERROR!!! |
| Gut munching | 2008-11-21 | 4 / 5 |
| | This was another movie that i was pleasently surprised at. There was alot of blood and guts. Not realistic acting, though. |
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