The House by the Cemetery
1981 ‘Quella villa accanto al cimitero’ Directed by Lucio Fulci
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A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
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A very strong entry in Lucio Fulci's zombie Quartet, It plays out almost as a slasher,and indeed add the haunted house subgenre into that as well. Overall Atmosphere was fantastic, coupled with quite abit of gore, This is not as action packed as say, The Beyond and City Of The Living Dead. A great slow burner, highely recomended!
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Disappointing. Slow, muddled, poor dubbing. Not entirely sure what Fulci was thinking here. It's a shame as the last 15 minutes are fantastic. The basement scenes are terrifying. Why wait till the end to reveal a character as great as Dr Freudstien? The saddest part is that this was the start of Fulci's decline from which he would never recover.
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is it bad i really wanted BOB to get hurt?
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Good grief. I was hoping for so much more. Loved Zombie Flesh-Eaters, adored City Of The Living Dead, so I figured The House By The Cemetery would be a sure bet.
How wrong was I?!
The dubbing and lip sync are atrocious.
The leading man looks like Michael Bay.
Bob is so irritating I wanted him mortally wounded.
Walter Rizzati's score is lazy and repetitive and repetitive.On the whole, I found the whole film quite lazy and no matter how much I wanted to enjoy it, THBTC felt poorly managed and failed to entertain in the same manner as Fulci's earlier works.
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As far as introductions go, the opening 5 minutes are quite creepy. It's just a shame… -
It started quite creepy, but generally went for style over substance for most of the film. It was definitely focused more heavily on the visual, as opposed to how the film was put together. It just didn't flow very well. The tense music would start up as the "ghoul" would approach someone, then it would just cut out and focus on the mum putting shopping away or something, then cut back to the ghoul killing the woman with the tense music again. An interesting attempt to cross the mundane and the challenging, with subtle undertones of anti-commercialism and nonconformity, but it didn't quite work for me.
I wouldn't really recommend it unless you're a fan of Fulci's films in general.…
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Lucio Fulci’s 'The House by The Cemetery' would be the final entry in his loosely connected 'Gates of Hell trilogy', following previous horror classics, 'City of the Dead' and his highly regarded masterpiece 'The Beyond'.
Since first being released 'House' has had a colourful and notorious history with the British censors, it's cinema release was heavily cut and its eventual home release got banned as part of the Video Recordings Act, later known as 'The Video Nasties'. When it was finally made available in 1988 it remained heavily cut, it wasn’t until 2009 with Arrow's original DVD release that it was made available uncut in the UK for the first time.
At the time of its release in 1981, Fulci…
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Good grief. I was hoping for so much more. Loved Zombie Flesh-Eaters, adored City Of The Living Dead, so I figured The House By The Cemetery would be a sure bet.
How wrong was I?!
The dubbing and lip sync are atrocious.
The leading man looks like Michael Bay.
Bob is so irritating I wanted him mortally wounded.
Walter Rizzati's score is lazy and repetitive and repetitive.On the whole, I found the whole film quite lazy and no matter how much I wanted to enjoy it, THBTC felt poorly managed and failed to entertain in the same manner as Fulci's earlier works.
But...
As far as introductions go, the opening 5 minutes are quite creepy. It's just a shame… -
Thinking too hard about this will make your head spin....just sit back and enjoy the non-sensical story and cartoony gore. Also, whoever played the voice of Bob is a genius.
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It took a while to grow on me. I didn't like it at first, mostly because i can't stand that annoying little boy (and his awful voice in the engl dub), but i found myself visiting the film again and again, on various formats, as the years went by.
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Oh me oh my. I've only seen two Fulci movies thus far and this one takes the cake. The House By The Cemetery managed to have atmosphere, stress inducing scenes, and a real sense of dread... all topped off with that trademark insanely excessive Fulci gore. Recommended viewing for slasher/splatter fans. I'd go as far as calling this a masterpiece. The last 10 minutes is pretty intense. Thank you Mr. Fulci.
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Great atmosphere, my first time watching this and I liked it a lot. I think things will improve upon a 2nd viewing
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Don't really know what was happening in this movie. I was too distracted with the fact that the main little kid in this looks like one of the Jolie-Pitt kids. Then I began to recast the entire movie in my head with the entire Jolie-Pitt family.
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Good gore, decent score, nothing more.
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Lucio Fulci’s 'The House by The Cemetery' would be the final entry in his loosely connected 'Gates of Hell trilogy', following previous horror classics, 'City of the Dead' and his highly regarded masterpiece 'The Beyond'.
Since first being released 'House' has had a colourful and notorious history with the British censors, it's cinema release was heavily cut and its eventual home release got banned as part of the Video Recordings Act, later known as 'The Video Nasties'. When it was finally made available in 1988 it remained heavily cut, it wasn’t until 2009 with Arrow's original DVD release that it was made available uncut in the UK for the first time.
At the time of its release in 1981, Fulci…
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I have arrived late at the Italian house party of horror, all best drugs & booze are gone ! Only my 3rd Fulci , this really was a disappointment. This just didn't have enough story to hold my attention, a couple of nice kills but nothing else. The sound design was really annoying, out context music & random child crying track playing over of film .