BURIAL GROUND
1980
Italy
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Alternate Titles:
Le Notti del Terrore (original Italian title)
The Nights of Terror
Zombie 3
Zombie Horror
Hell Night
Directed By:
Andrea Bianchi
Produced By:
Gabriele Crisanti
Piero Regnoli
Gianfranco Maioletti
Gianetto de Rossi
Elsio Mancuso, Burt Rexon
N/A
Karin Weil, Gian Luigi Chirizzi,
Simone Mattioli, Antonella Antinori, Roberto Caporali,
Claudio Zucchet, Peter Bark, Anna Valente,
Raimondo Barbieri (as Renato Barbieri),
Maria Angela Giordano
Synopsis
from back cover of the Vestron Video VHS
When The Moon Turns Red - The Dead Shall Rise!
A film of unspeakable explicit horrors, BURIAL GROUND delves
deep into the mysteries of bizarre scientific experimentation, creating
a tale so gruesomely realistic you have to see
it to believe it! What began as a carefree
weekend at a stately Scottish mansion turns to bone-chilling
terror when the dead rise, in all their decaying
glory, to greet the living. A young mother and
her son are invited to spend a weekend on
the country estate of a Scottish aristocrat. The house
is also occupied by a strange guest, known only
as "The Professor". No one pays much attention to
him, but he is the key to the impending
horrors. The attacks begin during the night - gruesome and
unspeakable acts of terror committed by living corpses. It
appears that nothing can stop this madness, as the
dead take their place as rulers of the living.
The gates of hell have opened...the path to
life is through the BURIAL GROUND.
Review from Zombie
by Allan Bryce
Under the title Zombie 3
Film Quality: * * (of 5)
Gore Content: * * * * (of 5)
"A grissly unofficial follow-up to ZOMBIE FLESH-EATERS
which is designed to show off some very gory
make-up effects by Gianetto de Rossi. The rotting
undead rise from an old Etruscan tomb and gatecrash
a weekend party at a remote mansion. Some of
the guests get turned into human buffet, while the
others escape to a monastery, where the carnage continues
unabated. Among the stomach-churning highlights are a scene
where a maid is pinned to a wall and
then beheaded with a scythe, and there's a disgusting
scene near the climax where one of the zombies
(an odd-looking youngster who looks all of 50
years old!) chomps down on a female breast - supposedly
his mum's! It's poorly directed, and the dead move
so slowly that their victims have no excuse other
than laziness for ending up on the dinner plate.
Still, the film's bloodthirsty fun for gore fans, and
the script carries an intriguing, if nasty undertone of
sexual perversion."
Review from The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies
by Phil Hardy
Under the title Le Notti del Terrore
"The plot of this follow-up to Lucio Fulci's
ZOMBI 2 (1979) by Bianchi, a minor director of sexploitation
and suspense movies, is devised with the intention of
staging as many gruesomely visceral events as possible.
The rotting undead emerge from an opened Etruscan tomb
and invade a weekend party at a country mansion
and, although some guests escape to a monastery, the
carnage continues unabated there. [Gianetto] De Rossi, who handled the
special effects for ZOMBI 2, again orchestrates the gory events,
which this time include the beheading with a scythe
of a crucified young woman and the ripping away
of one victim's breasts. The violence is more directly
sexual, the victims more attractive and the overall effect
more pathologically regressive than in Fulci's picture."
Review from The Deep Red Horror Handbook
by Chas Balun
"The dead walk and tear and rip again in
this inspired slaughterthon that's short on logic but long
on attack zombies. Neat eyeball skewering in homage to
Lucio Fulci. Grand splatter in the Italian Cannibal Zombie
tradition. (Watch out for the kid zombie who bites
Mommy's nipple off.) Great FX by Gianetto de Rossi."
Review from Official Splatter Movie Guide Vol. II
by John McCarthy
"More George Romero/Lucio Fulci-inspired zombie madness as
the dead rise up from a churchyard somewhere in
Italy and set their murderous sights and insatiable appetites
(and lusts) on a group of high-living partygoers
at a plush country estate. The walking dead give
new meaning to the term 'party animal' as they
dismember, decapitate, and crucify their (mostly female) victims, gouge
and feast on eyeballs, and perform a hideous radical
mastectomy, zombie-style. The gore effects are stomach-churningly
effective and nonstop, the acting and English dubbing as
terrible as always, and the plot non-existent in
this quintessential, no-holds-barred, no-body-left-intact,
Italian-made meat movie."
Review from Spaghetti Nightmares
by Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta
Under the title Le Notti del Terrore
"Homemade attempt in the Italian zombie-movie tradition launched by Lucio Fulci (special effects by [Gianetto] De Rossi who also worked on ZOMBI 2). Some sexy seasoning to spice things up."
