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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

In a remote mountainside house, a group of friends arriving for a weekend of fun find the house under attack from some type of strange walking corpses unearthed from a tomb nearby and realize they are trapped in the house with the living dead forcing the ever-dwindling party to escape.This is one of the better Italian zombie films out there. Frankly, one of the best aspects of this one is the really fast pace to this, which also means that you are rarely bored with this film as something is always happening. It gets started off almost immediately with the opening resurrection in the catacombs that takes great advantage of the underground catacombs. There are also several great scenes in here that really work, with the resurrection of the zombie underneath a patch of grass being really spine- tingling as it's a slow, drawn-out sequence that leads into the fantastic battling throughout the courtyard as well as the fun scenes in the garage. Once inside the house, we are treated to some more highlights in the assault to break into the house, the first attacks on the people inside, and the attack in the bedroom are tense scenes that drive up the scare factor of the film due to the fast pace here. Generating some creepiness to the attacks every now and then, as well as the series of assaults they undertake here throughout the house that really delivers some terrifying moments due to the relentlessness of the zombie attacks. As well, the film has some of the best-looking zombies ever seen in the genre, going beyond looking rotten as there are several that have their faces reduced to near skeletons with small amounts of flesh on the skull. Some have barely any skin on there, and with their grotesque faces, they strike quite an imaginative and scary look upon first viewing with their tattered clothes, shuffling walk, and the very creative makeup used on their faces to create a nearly-perfect zombie. Even better, the film utterly wallows in a decidedly sleazy atmosphere that comes off quite fun here with the sexual shenanigans as well as the overtly sexualized behavior here including one of the most legendary sequences in the genre. Alongside the relentless gore on both sides with great, brutal deaths against human and zombies, these here are more than enough to hold it up over the few minor flaws. The main issue is the sheer and utter stupidity displayed by the characters who continually display bad decision-making to keep themselves in danger or failing to recognize ways out of the situation that would keep them alive. This happens frequently and it does become somewhat of a sore spot with this one with several scenes easily able to be rectified by characters not being so dim- witted. Also, this movie destroys some zombie laws in a couple areas by having them grab utensils such as pitchforks and saws and actually using them in certain scenes which is something that may upset true zombie fans. While there are a couple scenes that are clearly homages to other movies of the time, and they are spotted pretty easily, they don't distract too much overall.Rated UR/NC-17: Extreme Graphic Violence, Full Nudity, incestuous scenes and several brief sex scenes.

Not since "Night of the Living Dead" was there such a sustained jolt of zombie horror as Andrea Bianchi's "Burial Ground". Aside from the brief sequences introducing the characters early in the movie, the action does not let up for a moment, and the feeling of approaching dread is palpable.Indeed, this zombie classic is one of few in that overcrowded sub-genre that feels worthy to sit alongside Romero's original film. It's not a complete ripoff: the zombies are a little smarter this time, employing a battering ram to gain entrance to the castle the heroes are hiding in, and they are perhaps the most gruesome example of the living dead ever captured on camera. The costume designers spared no detail, with dripping maggots and churning worms.A child actor in this movie also happens to be so ugly I wasn't sure who I wanted to look at least: him or the zombies. He looks like a cross between Peter Lorre and the kid from "Deliverance". The fact that he really only seems capable of saying "Mama! Mama!" made him even more repulsive. At first this seemed like a miscalculation: why would the filmmakers choose such a repugnant child if we are to root for him? But that's the thing... we aren't. During an astonishing scene later in the movie when he attempts to breastfeed from his sexy mother, and then, still later, when he is successful at this aim, with violent results, we come to see how another aspect of the horror in the best horror movies is the unreliability of humans, their uncomfortable closeness to the creatures they are fighting."Burial Ground" is a classic zombie movie, a must-see for fans of the genre.

What can you say about this little known gem? It has everything you would want in a horror movie, and then some! Directed by Andrea Bianchi, this gore-fest has a lot going for it. First off, this film features the most unlikeable cast of characters I've ever seen in a zombie flick. They make the zombies look like the protagonists of the film! But that is part of its charm. You find yourself rooting for the undead. You CAN'T wait for the hapless victims to die! On a more positive note, the film has some of the best zombie makeup I have ever seen. It also boasts an atmosphere of complete dread and hopelessness. This flick has some of the goriest and inventive murder scenes imaginable. It's as if the zombies watched episodes of "This Old House" and picked up some hand tool tips from Bob Vila. And how can you not mention Peter Bark, the man-child actor involved in the incest angle of the film EEEEEWWWW! All said and done, Burial Ground is one of the best Italian made zombie movies, right up there with the works of Lucio Fulci. I highly recommend you buy this film for your collection, it's a must have!

If ever there were a "so bad it's good" film, then this is it! The plot is bare bones: An archaeologist discovers a crypt containing zombies which then eat him. Meanwhile, three couples visit a villa in the country for a vacation. The crypt in which the archaeologist was killed turns out to be in the grounds of the villa. The couples set into a regimen of heavy petting in the gardens. The zombies wander out and proceed to attack the lovebirds who quickly retreat into the house. The rest just plays itself out.What makes this film a gem is the character of Michael. Played by Peter Bark, an adult midget, we are supposed to accept him as the young child of one of the women. Seeing the dubbed English version only makes Michael seem even weirder. His voice sounds like a girl's and he's given some pretty odd lines; like this one, clutching a rag found on the floor: "Mama, this cloth smells like death." Someone else here pointed out that he looks like a miniature Dario Argento (a pretty weird-looking bloke himself), and he does! One scene in particular suggests why an adult was used rather than a real child. Why that one scene was deemed so essential that the whole movie should be rendered completely unbelievable, I don't know. But thank goodness they ran with it! This movie is just good old-fashioned crud like only the Italians could make in the 70s and 80s. The zombies themselves look pretty good, surprisingly. Except for a couple who look like guys with heavy eye shadow - put in presumably to make up the numbers. Why give them close-ups then? Who knows! Prior to seeing this, Ralphus from "Bloodsucking Freaks" was my favourite horror movie midget. As far as kids in Italian horrors were concerned, it was a toss up between Bob (Giovanni Frezza) from "House by the Cemetery" and Marco (David Colins Jr) from "Schock". But now Peter Bark as Michael wins both categories.