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ZoeMovieReviews: The House By The Cemetery


The House by the Cemetery


 

This   is a 1981 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. The Italian title is called Quella villa accanto al cimitero. The film stars Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza, Silvia Collatina and Dagmar Lassander. This is the third instalment of the unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy which includes City of the Living Dead and The Beyond. This movie made the infamous video nasty list in the United Kingdom.

 

The Plot

This film revolves around a series of murders taking place in a New England home–a home which happens to be hiding a particularly gruesome secret within its basement walls. In New York, Dr. Norman Boyle assumes the research about Dr. Freudstein of his colleague Dr. Petersen, who committed suicide after killing his mistress. He heads to Boston with his family to live in an isolated house in the woods that belonged to Dr. Petersen. Bob befriends the girl Mae that only he can see and she warns him to leave the house. Soon his parents hire the mysterious babysitter and creepy things happen in the house. When the son goes to the basement, his parents discover the secret of the house.


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This film is really good. I liked it a lot. Recently nowadays I seem to like more horror films, which is great because horror is an awesome genre in film.

 

 The opening scene to this was great. A woman is looking for her boyfriend in the house and discovers his body stabbed with scissors. The woman gets stabbed and the knife goes from the back of head and straight through her mouth and her body is dragged through a cellar door.


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The score in this film is superb!! It really does suit the creepy atmosphere of this film. The acting throughout is great, although the little boy was little annoying at times.

 

There are so many gory lovely scenes in this, so beware! If you don’t like gore then don’t watch this. Well, most horror films do have gore in them I suppose… 

 

The scene when the bat was biting Normans hand was really cool. I loved the scene when there was just blood covering the gravestone and seeing all the gory organs and body bits. Another great scene was when the girls looking at the shop window and one of the mannequins head just rolls off – I liked that!! It was kinda creepy.





I thought the different kills Dr. Freudstein did to the people in the house was really cool. I thought it was clever that each time someone went into the creepy basement they’d get killed. It would always happen when they trying to escape by walking back up and the door is unlocked so the person can’t escape.

 

Overall, I really liked this film a lot. There are some really great scenes in this. I liked the creepy vibe the mansion had in the film. The acting was great and the score suited the film so well. This is a great classic Italian horror! Great watch, I recommend this if you like horror or you are specifically new to watching Italian horror.

Rating: 8/10

 

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