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Burial Ground

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Amis du cinéma italien voila un titre qui vous en mettra plein la vue. film a faible budget comme pour Zombie Holocaust mais beaucoup supérieur a celui-ci. le Scénario est lamentable ,les acteurs sont d'une nulité extreme , les effets gore terriblement mal fait, la music est bien cheap et les dialogue sont completement stupid mais je sait pas pourquoi mais j'ai tout simplement adoré ce film... question d'ambiance :oP.

GOOD MOVIE IN GENERAL.LOTS OF ROTTED CORPSES AND GORE. THE CHARACTERS ARE STRANGE ESPECIALLY MICHAEL THE LITTLE BOY/GIRL? HIS BIG SCENE WITH HIS MOTHER MAKES THIS MOVIE WORTH IT.ALTHOUGH IT CAN BE A LITTLE DRAWN OUT,I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS ONE !!!!!!

This movie is great for so many reasons. It has creepy zombies, ample blood and gore, and seemingly unintentional hillarity.

First, the zombies are unique and incredibly eerie. They look like they have been made out of a combination of ceramic masks, dirt, makeup effects and old, tattered burlap. It gives them an ancient, decayed look. They are classic, slow-moving zombies and they begin rising up out of the cemetary ground during the daytime. When they first start to rise they are genuinely creepy!

The gore is, as I mentioned, ample. You have your typical scenes of zombies playing in the deeps of dead people's guts. But if the typical is not enough, you also get a glass-shard beheading, severe bloody beating, and plenty more.

There are enough unintentinally hillarious aspects of this movie to keep you watching even if you are not creeped out by the zombies. First, the dubbing is absolutely awful. Second, the actors and their outfits are absolutely ridiculous. Most importantly though, you have a midget with a combover trying to play the part of an incestuous little boy who tries to put the bom-chicka-wow-wow down on his mother. Great stuff!

Drawbacks: plot is not believable (why would you let the zombies inside?), monk zombies (whose dumb idea was this?), and poor dubbing. The movie also seems to run too long, and it starts to get boring towards the end. Otherwise, enjoy the show!

Very much a 'You want Zombies? We got your Zombies!!" kind of Spaghetti-splatterfest, "Burial Ground" succeeds where most of these thrillers fail, by eliminating most of the slower talky sections and giving us fans exactly what we want. From the first sequence to the last this unheralded trash-thriller keeps the viewer riveted with graphic depictions of Zombi violence and futile Human efforts to fight back. Character development is kept to a blessed minimum as this dark and mean-spirited bloodfest progresses to it's downbeat conclusion. Highly recommended and now readily available, pick this up if you like this stuff. Sure wish the Cosmic-synth soundtack was available(!)

"Burial Ground" is director Andrea Bianchi's answer to Lucio Fulci's "Zombie Flesh Eaters". It even directly rips off that films most famous moment (the eye skewering) in a hilariously inferior copycat sequence. Sadly, there isn't really a lot to get excited about, the film is an absolute turkey. The plot simply pitches a group of people staying in a country manor against an invasion of zombies, and limps from one "gore" highlight to another, until almost everyone is dead. And that's it.
The remastered print actually does the film a disservice, as it shows up how bad the famous gore really is, as well as the amateurish make-up of the various zombies. The print certainly seems uncut, but the famous "head pulled through the glass " and "breast biting" scenes seem very tame now...The acting is completely over the top, everybody trembles and screams constantly at each approaching zombie, and the dubbing adds to this mess with non stop hysterical wimpering from every character.
At least the film is shot on location, and the house itself is a goregeous ornate mansion, but that is my only compliment! I'll admit I like bad horror movies, and have a lot of time for them if they make me laugh. I did get a lot of comedy mileage out of the dialogue, notably during some of the "erotic" encounters as much as the scatterbrained plans about how to fight the undead. Plus every scene involving Peter Bark as the supposedly "young" son who has sexual designs on his mother left me speechless.
You can't beat H G Lewis for cracking good laughs in the gore department, so this is really only for those who really have to see every uncut Euro-horror. However I would recommend Bruno Mattei's "Hell of the Living Dead" if you want an example of truly awful zombie cinema.

If you want terrible acting,the worst voice dubbing a movie can offer,then pick up Borial Ground. A professor who happens to live on an estate breaks the seal and the zombies rise. Pretty basic and repetitive. Although one decent aspect is the zombies look decent,they don't look as corny as (Shock Waves and Zombie Lake)which are 2 other terrible movies. Also what on earth is going on with the chessy dialogue,line like "You look like a slut,but I like it"and telling a zombie "Im your friend". In conclusion I would recommend actual great classic Horror movies like (1978-Dawn Of The Dead,1985-Day Of The Dead,1980-Cannibal Apocalypse,1983-Evil Dead,1981-The Beyond) instead to add to your collection rather then wasting 16 dollars on the terrible Burial Ground from Shriek Show.

A scientist has brought back the dead from an ancient curse, the zombies are seeking the blood of human beings in a mansion located next to their cemetery.

Very entertaining and violent Italian zombie splatter epic that is preety much flawed but fun to watch. The flaws are the zombie make-up, some of them look like halloween masks and the English dubbed dialog is preety bad but the gore effects, chilling music score and violence make up for those things. It also includes a breast feeding scene you will never forget, it's definitely a gorehound's delight and will please fans of zombie flicks.

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OH MY GOD KILLER ZOMBIES!!!! hold on where is it they came from again oh yea i forgot when the scientist knocked on a wall. This is the worst zombie intro iv'e seen in years no let me refrase that thats the worst zombie intro i've seen ever.Theres the bad acting and i do meen bad acting kids not just ur regular bad actor in a film all of these actor were bad from the scientist to that little kid who looked like he was 50 i meen what arent there any kid actors in italy. (...) Anyway just incase you haven't figured it out yet, simple don't waste your money on this dvd i wish some one would have written this review first [to] help all of those people who are about to make a big mistake.

I was eager to watch this movie ever since I seen previews for it, the atmosphere is great!! The scenery really kicks in like in a Fulci zombie movie. There is plenty of gore in this and nudity as well. But the thing that was great were the zombies, they looked amazing, great makeup, and they are smarter this time around. These zombies can use weapons and cooperate with eachother to kill people, I thought that was pretty cool. A must see for fans of zombie movies, it really is among the best. This movie has alot of memorable scenes you won't forget. Incest between a woman and her son, yea you heard it correctly, and what he does to her when they "reunite" is pretty crazy too. Amazing atmosphere, great effects, one of the best for sure!

Burial Ground is absolutely one of the best entries in the glut of Italian zombie/cannibal films to have been released in the late 70's and early 80's. A fine example of so bad it's great and an absolute party pleaser too. The plot is bare bones simple: A prologue shows an archaeology professor accidentally reviving the dead while on a research field trip. Fast forward a while later. A bunch of guests receive an invitation from this professor to spend a few days of rest and relaxation at his mansion. To their great surprise, they arrive at the mansion with no professor in sight. What they do encounter however are tons (and I do mean tons) of the walking undead praying for their flesh.

The thing I like the most about Burial Ground is the pacing. The initial 20 minutes are somewhat slow but after that we're talking slam bam pacing that never lets go, something you would not get from say, a Lucio Fulci flick. I'm a big fan of Fulci's films but in between zombie attacks things move at a snail's pace. Burial Ground however is as fast as a roller-coaster with innumerable zombie attack scenes and especially creative scenes of gore (although the shard of glass in the eye is definitely in homage to Fulci's Zombie). The zombies look cheap and are super slow but one thing they're not is stupid. How many zombie films do we see where the ghouls use scythes, pitchforks and axes as weapons and even collectively gather to use a battery ram to force their way in? In many ways, these zombies act way more logically than their human victims. I guess the professor did a fine job of tutoring them.

Sure this movie is ridiculous but most zombie films are anyway. There's so much to laugh about in this film. The acting? Please. All of the actors are dubbed anyways and are never given any decent opportunity to show off their ability. The dubbing is atrocious in the worst way. It's one thing when the lips are not in synch with the translator but quite another when the voice comes out as an echoey sound from a different room! One thing that's a winner is the transfer which is surprisingly clear. Due to this quality transfer the film never appears to be as old as it is except for the clothing the actors are wearing of course.

I wish more zombie movies were this unabashedly over-the-top. Tons of gore, tons of nudity, breakneck pacing, a few scenes of incest thrown in for good measure and that's Burial Ground for you. Even though the film is laughable and ultra cheesy, director Andrea Bianchi is still somehow able to instill a genuine sense of terror throughout. There's no happy go lucky ending here folks. Great movie, great transfer, great extras. A must own film for fans of the genre.