House by the Cemetery

UPC: 827058115292

Studio: Blue Underground

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Violence, Not For Children, Gore]

Summary: This cult horror film from director Lucio Fulci lurches along with a certain amount of disjunction due to cutting, perhaps, if not to an innate Fulci disposition. When the Boyle family temporarily moves into a mansion near Boston so the father can do some research, the son Bob (Giovanni Frezza) starts seeing the ghost of a young girl motioning to him, and eventually he discovers the basement's terrible secret. A certain Dr. Freudstein (Giovanni de Nari) has been hanging out there since 1879 when he was banned from the medical profession, and he has kept himself alive although in miserable physical shape, by murdering the various inhabitants of the house and using their cells to keep his body going. An oversize bat attacks the father, floors come apart and crush unsuspecting victims, and at one point little Bob's blond head is held to the basement door by the evil doctor while the father is wildly swinging his axe through the door to save his son. Scenes like these and others are the real objective of the movie -- the strange and irresolute ending, and leaps and gaps in the plot, are indications that all else is dispensible pretext - gore is the goal and it is delivered in sickening doses. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Category: Horror

Features: Meet the Boyles - Interview with stars Catriona MacColl and Paolo Malco
Children of the Night - Interview with stars Giovanni Frezza and Silvia Collatina
Tales of Laura Gittleson - Interview with star Dagmar Lassander
My Time with Terror - Interview with star Carlo De Mejo
Deleted scenes
Theatrical trailers
TV spot
Poster & still gallery

House by the Cemetery

Format: DVD

Release Date: 10/25/2011

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DS Dolby Surround (4.0), DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 86 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Region: Universal Compatability

Chapters: Disc #1 -- The House by the Cemetery
1. Intruders [3:00]
2. Main Titles [1:13]
3. The Girl in the Window [3:33]
4. Petersen's Prot?g? [3:37]
5. Premonitions [4:46]
6. House by the Cemetery [5:31]
7. Noises in the Night [4:00]
8. The Library [4:38]
9. Haunted [5:01]
10. The Cellar Door Mystery [7:28]
11. Mrs. Gittleson Gets Gored [7:17]
12. Warning From Beyond [8:22]
13. The Babysitter's Murder [5:33]
14. Looking for Ann [6:03]
15. Deadly Eyes [5:39]
16. Dr. Freudstein Lives! [6:13]
17. One of the Family [2:50]
18. End Credits [1:25]

Craig Butler

House By The Cemetery isn't your average haunted house movie. It's the Lucio Fulci version of a haunted house movie, which means that atmosphere is favored over a carefully structured narrative and the shocks often feature extreme, shocking gore (for instance, the opening features one of the more unusual and squirm-inducing stabbings ever shown in a horror movie). Thus, House By The Cemetery isn't for horror fans expecting something as subtle as The Haunting but the film is worthwhile for those who can enjoy a more gruesome and surreal style of horror. Fulci fully capitalizes on the creep-factor of his storyline and mixes in effective bits of subtle, often dreamlike creepiness between the big shocks. The acting in the English language version is impaired a bit by some odd dubbing (particularly the voice used for the family's son) but the actors do a solid job reacting to the film's horrors, particularly frequent Fulci star Catriona MacColl. Finally - and most importantly for a shocker like this -- the film boasts a memorably grueling finale that is capped with a haunting, unexpectedly subtle coda. In short, House By The Cemetery is primarily for Euro-horror fans with strong stomachs -- but this is the kind of atmospheric grue that is perfect for said audience. ~ Craig Butler, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Carlo de Mejo  Actor 
Giovanni de Nava  Actor 
Dagmar Lassander  Actor 
Silvia Collatina  Actor 
Giovanni Frezza  Actor 
Fabrizio de Angelis  Producer 
Lucio Fulci  Director 
Lucio Fulci  Screenwriter 
Dardano Sacchetti  Screenwriter 
Walter Rizzati  Composer (Music Score) 
Giorgio Mariuzzo  Screenwriter 
Catriona MacColl  Actor 
Paolo Malco  Actor 
Anja Pieroni  Actor 

Country: Italy