The House By The Cemetery

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Summary: CRAP MOVIE...i wasted my $5.99 on buying this turd
Review: If i could take the 1 star out of 5 of my rating,i would do it,but i cant.
Cutting to the chase.
Worst horror movie of all time.
I prefer watching the TV episodes of goosebumps with my kids, then buying that fulci fart.

U been warned

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Summary: Ain't The Beyond, but tries to be
Review: House by the Cemetery (Lucio Fulci, 1981)

One wonders, idly, why it is that Fulci felt the need to make (essentially) the same movie twice in one year. While House by the Cemetery is set in Boston, the family configuration is different, and the long-leggetie beastie is a different sort of thing, House by the Cemetery might as well have been outtakes from the superior The Beyond. Just to add to the similarity, Fulci cast Catriona MacColl as the female lead in both.

Just in case you've never seen The Beyond, the story: family (in this case, family has kid) moves into eerie house. Strange things start happening, most of which involve a lot of blood. Family members uncover long-buried secret that is the key to understanding the nastiness, but by that time, it's pretty much too late for the knowledge to actually help anyone, and we end up with a long, bloody climax.

I can't quite put my finger on why, of the two films, The Beyond seems like the superior product. The acting quality is about equal, the set decoration is similar, the plot makes all the appropriate twists and turns (and some of them are unpredictable), the cinematography is appropriately dark and brooding where it needs to be without going over the line into David Fincher-like claustrophobia. I guess it's because House by the Cemetery doesn't have the gratuitous spider scene The Beyond has (and let's not forget Maria Marsala's memorable turn in The Beyond, either, a parallel of which House by the Cemetery lacks).

It's good bloody Fulci fun, and a fine way to kill (with a large axe, of course) an hour and a half. But The Beyond edges it on the rewatchability factor. ***

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Summary: For EURO/ITALIAN horror fans only. Others BEWARE ! !
Review: Typical Fulci fare about a young family who settles into a creepy, run down house that comes complete with cobwebs, killer bats and a BEAST IN THE CELLAR. The lovely Catriona MacColl returns and gives (as usual) a very good performance. The child actor in the film is quite adorable, looking very much like a male version of the POLTERGEIST child star Heather O Rourke. However the dubbing is where this film gets irritating. It sounds like adults were used to dub the child's voices and the end result is extremely annoying.

Before I begin analyzing the gore/violence, I do want to point out that the film's score is quite beautiful. Many scenes in the film are enhanced by the melodic yet eerie score which is rare in a FULCI film.

THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY is Fulci's slowest moving film. It opens with a couple of brutal slayings but you'll have to wait at least another 30 minutes before another life is extinguished. Fulci fans however don't view this as a problem because the film delivers the goods during those few key moments. It has a tremendous amount of Gore. There are head stabbings, throat rippings, and a very graphic be-heading. What disturbed me about this movie was how well done many of these scenes were. It had me questioning my morals as a human being. Why do I like seeing innocent people suffer? Why do I enjoy seeing innocent people being savagely carved up & slaughtered? I honestly can't answer these questions. But this film DID leave me with a very uncomfortable feeling after viewing it.

SO please keep this in mind, if you can stomach the repulsiveness of these films, you should find HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY interesting viewing and the THREE STAR RATING I gave the film is solely for those who like this sort of morbid unpleasantness. All OTHERS, please AVOID AT ALL COSTS. You will do yourself a dis-service by viewing these types of films.

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Summary: A fun horror movie!
Review: I really enjoyed this film a lot. I'd only seen one other Fulci film. That movie was really good, though i vaguely remember that parts of it made no sense. Still, i can't wait to own it on dvd. House By The Cemetery is a really good haunted house movie. Don't bother over-analyzing this movie. Just watch it with all the lights off like i did. The first thing i noticed was how incredibly great and effective the music was. The music that accompanies the opening credits and the scene immediately following that where the boy is looking at the photograph of the house is very beautiful. That music reminded me of another memorable piece of music from the horror classic Phantasm. I love when horror movies use instrumental music instead of the current trend of using songs from current pop rock and heavy metal groups, which totally ruins things in my opinion. I love pop rock and heavy metal, but neither genre belongs in a horror movie because it just takes the scariness of the movie away totally. Horror movies should be about building atmosphere through music, not selling a current band's tunes. I give the opening and closing credits music a five star rating. Secondly, the cinematography is excellent, and the director builds tension and suspense with good camera work and also the effective use of sound effects. The gore is fairly decent, and very excessive in several scenes, as it is with most Italian and Euro horror movies. A lot of people talk about the annoying kid in the movie. I thought he did a good job for a kid his age. They should have picked someone who looked more like a boy. I'm pretty sure his voice was dubbed, and they should have picked a better-sounding voice. Maybe it's the kid's voice that everyone finds annoying. All in all i really liked this movie a lot. It has some really great elements to it and i found it very stylish and effective. I'd definitely watch it again.

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Summary: A Great Italian Horror flick on a poorly authored DVD.
Review: This review is of the Diamond release of this film. The movie itself is a superb entry into Fulci's body of work and Italian horror movies in general. It has more taut suspense and more competent gore/effects than most other films in the genre. This particular DVD however is one of the most poorly authored comercial DVDs I've ever seen. First, the movie is broken into only 4 chapters, making finding a particular scene quite difficult and time consuming. Second, the picture quality is in the fair to poor range (think pre-viewed VHS). Third, the sound quality is that of a worn and warped record, with plenty of hiss and pops to compete with the mono soundtrack. And finally (and also the most egregious offense), if you watch through the credits, at some point the screen will go black for about two minutes, then there's some digital blocking, followed by ten or so seconds of something (I'm not sure what, perhaps a trailer for the movie), and finally the screen turns blue and reads: "Laser disc stop side-B"! Hmmm, I wonder what they transfered this DVD from. The only thing that makes this disc at all worth buying is the movie on it and its price. If you really need to save the money, buy this disc. But, if you want a good film in a good transfer on a good disc, buy the Anchor Bay edition. I sure wish I had bought that one first.

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Summary: Wack
Review: this movie is wack. i like zombie movies with people coming back from the dead and i just looked at the title and it said house by the cemetery so i figured thats what it was. So i rented it and watched it and found out that it was about a [man] with a bag over his head locked in a basement trying to kill people. I've definitely seen worse tho, and the reason i probly thought it was so bad was because it wasn't what i had expected. Either way, i've never made an attempt to rent or recommend this movie to anyone else and i suggest you do the same. Im out

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Summary: holy geez does this movie blow
Review: this movie is sooo bad. easily the worst fulci movie,uwantagood fulci movie see zombie or city of the living dead or the beyond but dont ever see this. the only way i would give this movie a higher rating was if they theykilled that little blonde kid the first scene he was in. he might have the most annoying voices ever put on film plus its horribly dubbed so its just multiplied. i can usually get past all the bad qualities in lucio fulci movies because they usually do have a creepy atmosphere and they got classic gore scenes but this 1 has nuthin.

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Summary: That damn kid
Review: Damn was the kid annoying. The movie would've been much better had he been killed in the opening scene. My thoughts....if you like this kind of movie, you'll like this one. If not, you'll hate it.

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Summary: Don't over analize, just enjoy
Review: Well here we have yet another Lucio Fulci film. Though not quite up to the standards set by such classics as Zombie2 and The Beyond, this still manages to be a very entertaining flick with some memorable terror. This is pure pulp horror and my guess is that if you are reading this review that is just what you are looking for. If you are a fan of Giallo and Italian horror then this is a must see.
One particularly memorable scene as pointed out by many is the one involving a maid mopping up a considerable amount of gore and the mistress of the house enquiring as to what she is doing. Her response: "I made coffee". Could this be Fulci trying to demonstrate the breakdown of communication in modern day families and households! Ha! I'm just kidding! Do not waste your time with overanalisys but simply allow yourself to be entertained as the realm of taboos is once again exploited by good old Itallian Horror.

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Summary: Excellent Fulci film.......
Review: I love this movie, alaways been a fan of Horror/Italian/Zombie/Slasher.......you name it. The edition in my collection is in a four disc set (Horror Rises From The Grave) and has this Fulci classic under the name (Zombie At Hell House). Its only 82 mins in that release, however the whole set is only [item price]......yep thats four movies, and to top it off the last film (Night Of The Ghoul) is a Peter Cushing film which makes it an automatic classic in my book. To me all this makes it worth missing a few minutes that wouldn't make the movie any easier to understand.....but awesome none the less!