The House by the Cemetery opens with the beautiful Daniela Doria sacrificing her on-screen life for Fulci...yet again. You may remember her as the girl unable to hold the contents of her stomach [oh so literally] in City of the Living Dead, or maybe you remember her as the pretty blonde foaming at the mouth in The Black Cat, surely you haven't forgotten her run in with razorblades in The New York Ripper either...

A couple other actors from City of the Living Dead appear in this as well, with Fulci regular Catriona MacColl as a given, but we also see a brief glimpse of Carlo De Mejo as well, minus all the meal-worms glued to his cheeks.

Also appearing…

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Film #17 of the "Scavenger Hunt 2" Challenge!
Task #16 : A film that HAS been banned, by ANY country, past or present!
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Apparently director Lucio Fulci's gruesome lil arterial geyser film made it onto the UK's Video Nasty List! Look I understand we need a rating system to keep children away from inappropriate films! I however do NOT understand why we as a society let a group of prudes and prigs decide what we are allowed to view as adults! In my not so humble opinion the people need to speak up loud and clear with their votes and oust this archaic system that bans and censors films!

Atmospheric, creepy and bloody good fun when it's…

Ann? Mommy says you're not dead. Is that true?
-Bob Boyle

When watching Italian horror films from the 70s and 80s you have to be forgiving of the English dubbing, some more then others, because if you don't you WILL miss out on some of the greatest films the genre has to offer.

Now it's come to my attention over the years, that more often then not, children are dubbed by adults painfully trying to imitate a child's voice. This is such a film and young Bob Boyle is voiced by someone who must of had one fucked up childhood.

The shrill high pitched voice coming out of this child's mouth is stuff nightmares are made from and we are…

Film #19 of my Hoop-tober Horror Challenge!

"Mae, time to go home and remember your manners. Now that Bob is staying with us, be sure to treat him like a Freudstein. For other guests are surely destined to drop in."

For the first time in my life, I feel like I truly understand Italian horror.

That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed it in the past, because I have - I love Deep Red, Black Sunday, Demons, Lisa and the Devil, Zombi 2, The Beyond, I've been meaning to watch StageFright: Aquarius for...forever. I'm not saying that I'm a Tenured Expert in All Things Italian Horror, because I haven't seen a lot other than the "big" names, but it's…

The Hooptober Massacre: Hoop-tober 4.0 - Film #3

Personal Challenge - Fulci's Gates of Hell Trilogy

"No one will ever know whether children are monsters or monsters are children." - Henry James

There's not really much to say about the final installment of Fulci's Gates of Hell Trilogy except that it's definitely the slowest moving and most monotonous of the three. Atmosphere is a great tool and whatnot, but there should still be a little something going on, or else my mind is going to wander and I'm going to lose interest. There are too many long stretches in this one where nothing happens and you really start hoping for some brutal murdering just to alleviate the boredom. I suppose…

The Hooptober Massacre: Hoop-tober 4.0 - Film #3

Personal Challenge - Fulci's Gates of Hell Trilogy

"No one will ever know whether children are monsters or monsters are children." - Henry James

There's not really much to say about the final installment of Fulci's Gates of Hell Trilogy except that it's definitely the slowest moving and most monotonous of the three. Atmosphere is a great tool and whatnot, but there should still be a little something going on, or else my mind is going to wander and I'm going to lose interest. There are too many long stretches in this one where nothing happens and you really start hoping for some brutal murdering just to alleviate the boredom. I suppose…

This bordering-on-ersatz haunted house flick is mainly a framework for some spooky set pieces and that's all it really ever needs to be. Still, that central conceit doesn't keep it from being truly mystifying at times. It sets up one character to be suspicious and a potential culprit in the killings only to abandon that concept entirely which would have been a somewhat effective red herring if that character's untimely demise hadn't already been eluded to earlier. It seems to pull some important plot details out of thin air at convenient times. There is never an acknowledgement of the events that open the film which, granted, would have stopped the movie dead in its tracks if they had ever been…

A family moves into a remote New England house so that the father can continue the research of the former occupant who supposedly committed a murder-suicide. The child, a young boy, is haunted by eerie premonitions by way of a strange girl who keeps appearing and warning him not to go inside the house, the boy's hot new babysitter seems somewhat mentally off-base, the family discovers a tombstone inside the house itself, the father's research soon uncovers the fact that the Victorian-era Dr. Freudstein, who lived in the house with his family, conducted some terrible illegal experiments, and, before we know it, the initial quietly sinister vibe of the movie is replaced by stabbings, decapitations, hangings, and just about everything…

There's a creepy old house where Dr Freudstein did some shady stuff. Some teens are there hanging about. Daniela Doria dies horribly. Again.

Bob is really annoying, really, really annoying.

A doctor researching suicide kills himself and his student is sent to replace him. But he's been sent to The Freudstein House so you know things aren't gonna turn out well.

Bob meets a little girl who's a bit weird but has much better dubbing than he does. She checks out some mannequins and one loses it's head which freaks the girl out a bit. The rental agent shows them to the house and casually runs over a few gravestones...

The doctor doing the research seems a bit suspect but…