Burial Ground

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John C If ever a film could be described as a 'car crash' then it has to be 'The Zombie Dead' (or whatever it's called in various territories). I think that I'd be hard pushed to it to find something positive to say about this 1981 low budget horror film. In fact, I could probably write pages dedicated to all the things wrong with it. However, because I'd say that there's absolutely nothing good about this film at all, it slips all the way round the spectrum into that 'so-bad-it's-good' category. And, because of that, I'm ashamed to say that I own a copy among my DVD collection. With a title like 'The Zombie Dead' you probably don't need a huge explanation regarding its plot. Nutty professor. Brings the undead back to life. Carnage ensues. I've mentioned it's 'low budget' and it really is. Sometimes today we associate 'low budget' with bad CGI special effects. We should be so lucky here. The budget is probably less that the cost of the Sunday newspapers. The 'actors' (notice the quotation marks?) can't act. And, if they could, it probably wouldn't matter as their lines are dubbed over anyway. The film was made in Italian and the English lines dubbed by voice actors who also can't act. These are the people we're supposed to root for as they run around a mansion doing every stupid thing you've seen idiots do in every other bad horror film. The only thing more cheesy than the actors are the zombies out to get them. You're probably used to seeing - what amounts to - humans with bleeding wounds, shuffling about moaning on about brains (or something). Not here. Instead, the film-makers try and make the zombies into more monster-looking creatures with masks that sort of look a bit like a fleshed out skeleton. In reality, I don't know what they look like. I only know that if I saw one staggering towards me, I'd probably be too busy laughing to run away. We meet our 'heroes' - about three or four couples of over-sexed thirty-somethings, either with a receding hairline, a moustache, or both (and that's just the women! - joke). There's not a single relatable or decent trait among them and, when they do start losing body parts to our slow-moving 'walkers' we really won't care. But, none of them are the stars. I'm saving the real reason anyone watches this film until last - it's the 'little boy.' Now, we're all used to child actors sometimes not being up to the task of starring in a film. Maybe that's why the production team used a middle-aged dwarf to play the child. Why? Don't ask me. But if that isn't weird enough, he has an - er - 'odd' relationship with his mother. No matter how creepy the zombies are and the prospect of being eating alive, it all pales in comparison compared to some of the scenes between 'boy' and mother. This is a bad film. You should be aware of that. The only reason you should watch it is if you're in one hell of a forgiving mood or are looking for a film that is so bad that you won't be able to turn it off, just because you're trying to see if it can get any worse. And it probably can. A guilty pleasure to be sure. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/03/24 Full Review xpig332 B Everything about it was so bad that it was REALLY BAD. On par with Plan 9 From Outer Space. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/07/24 Full Review Jonathan O Burial ground is a sleazy wtf zombie gore fest of all time. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/11/24 Full Review sean s This was shot in the late 1970's in Italy. Parts of it look like some kind of Penthouse magazine from back then. Ha. I saw this when I was young, and it really creeped me out. Now, I can see past the weak skull costumes, etc. I am pretty sure that the creepy little midget kid's voice is being dubbed by the guy who voiced Speed Racer, which adds an even more perverse and funny feel to the deal. There were a lot of Italian movies like this during that period being made. The special effects don't hold too well, but the sets are usually beautiful and the story lines, even if incomplete, are usually perverse and more creepy than you see in American movies from that time. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Zombies inteligentes que saben usar herramientas, eran monjes. Y un niño (con cara de señor, en realidad tenía más de 20 años) con complejo de Edipo. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Night of the Living Dead comes to Italy!! But of course, it's not as good and much bader. Night of the Living Dead is a classic, while this one is one of the cheaper movies of the Zombi series. The acting is shit, the screenplay is shit and the characters are annoying and do some of the stupidous things in horror movie history. You sort of want them to die. But the cheesy zombie effects are the best I've seen yet. And the disturbing music is nice too. Worth a look!! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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