Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

GL84 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.

ferbs54 The impact that George A. Romero's seminal "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) had on the future of the so-called "zombie film" was so enormous as to practically constitute a sea change. Up until then, in pictures such as "White Zombie" (1932), "Revolt of the Zombies" (1936), "King of the Zombies" (1941), "I Walked With a Zombie" (1943) and even as late as 1966's "The Plague of the Zombies," these creatures had been presented as essentially harmless beings; hypnotized or drugged, living automatons who carried out the commands of their masters. The Romero film transformed the zombies into ravenous gut munchers; the revivified dead, hungry for human flesh. Since "NOTLD," many films have played on this concept with varying success and degrees of imagination, the best of the bunch (such as Romero's five sequels, Lucio Fulci's 1979 homage "Zombie," 2002's "28 Days Later," 2013's "World War Z") tweaking the formula with interesting new twists. And then there's 1981's "Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror," which is seemingly pleased to jettison everything except bloody zombie carnage in the pursuit of a memorable time for the viewer. And for some, I suppose that might just be enough.The film is too easily synopsized. A professor putters around in an Etruscan graveyard and somehow, in a manner never clearly explained, causes the long-entombed dead to rise. Meanwhile, three couples arrive at a nearby villa (actually, the Palazzo Braschi, in Rome) for a holiday, along with the son of one of the women. The newly awakened corpses waste little time in attacking these seven, who are then forced into a siege situation at the villa, along with the residence's maid and butler. And that's pretty much it; on with the blood and guts and mayhem....Writing about "Burial Ground" in his invaluable "Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide," Glenn Kay tells us that it is "among the toughest Italian zombie flicks to sit through," and that "there isn't one iota of suspense or terror, and you won't care about or like any of the characters." And while it's difficult to argue with Kay, I yet have a feeling that I enjoyed the film slightly more than he did. Yes, the picture surely has been made for those who do not esteem such elements of the filmmaking craft as character development, logic, explanations, etc. "NOTLD" had a radioactive satellite as a rationale for its zombie plague; this film offers no rationale whatsoever! The viewer, likewise, never learns why or how the zombies cause the villa's lightbulbs to explode, or, for that matter, why the zombies look like half-decomposed cadavers, instead of the skeletons that Etruscans lying in the ground for 2,000+ years would be expected to resemble. And yet, the film still has some definite assets to offer, I feel. For one thing, it is just remarkable how many different types of zombie masks and makeup jobs the film dishes out; Mauro Gavazzi and Rosario Prestopino have done a wonderful job, respectively, in the makeup and masks departments. While screenwriter Piero Regnoli's script is surely nothing to rave about (especially when compared to the work he handed in for 1956's "I Vampiri"), at least he does keep things lively and moving, while director Andrea Bianchi (who had previously impressed me with his work on that sleaziest of gialli, the 1975 Edwige Fenech vehicle "Strip Nude for Your Killer") manages to provide more than a few clever shocks. The largely electronic musical score by Elsio Mancuso complements the already freaky mood nicely, and the gorehounds in the audience will be happy to learn that the body count in the film--among the living AND the living dead--is extremely high. Among the film's various instances of pleasing grossness are the sight of wriggling maggots in many of the zombies' faces; bloody disembowelments and gut-munching sequences that make the one in Romero's 1968 film seem quite tame; zombie immolation; zombie heads being blown off; zombies being speared and gushing some kind of muddy goop; and on and on. And although Kay has claimed that the film is devoid of suspense, there are at least two sequences that this viewer found somewhat nerve shredding. In the first, one of the women is held immobile in a bear trap while one ugly zombie advances on her. And in the second, the maid has her hand impaled on a windowsill while a scythe-wielding zombie slowly climbs up a wall to slice off her head. (Oddly, the zombies are able to use tools, carry weapons, and even unite to use a battering ram!) And then there's the extremely strange matter of that young kid played by Peter Bark, a 25-year-old actor who, because of his dwarfism, resembled a boy half his age. Italian law prohibited youths from appearing in such violent and sexual fare (I guess I didn't mention that the film has a fair amount of nudity and sexual content); thus, the use of someone like Bark. He makes for a very weird "young" character ("one of the creepiest, oddest-looking kids ever captured on film," says Kay), with a marked Oedipus complex for his mother (Mariangela Giordano, the only "name" in the cast). And, in the film's most notorious sequence, his mom learns an invaluable life lesson the hard way: If your young son ever becomes a zombie, do NOT, out of pity, invite him to suckle at your breast! The bottom line: Although Kay has given "Burial Ground" his lowest rating, this viewer found it to be an acceptable, simpleminded entertainment. The film can be seen today via an excellent print on a Media Blasters' Shriek Show DVD, which comes with many fine extras, including modern-day interviews with the very likable producer, Gabriele Cristani, as well as Mariangela herself, who, remarkably, looks much the same as she did some 25 years ago. As does her Evelyn character in the film, during her interview, Mariangela manages to (you should pardon the expression) get quite a bit off her chest....

Theo Robertson You don't expect much intellect from a horror movie but this Italian gore laden zombie horror BURIAL GROUND is far worse than you'd expect from the genre . There's zero story and the characters with speaking parts have got less brains than the zombies . In fact at least one of the characters is more scary than the zombies themselves The characters we're quickly introduced to have the sex drive higher than a warren of rabbits and the blokes are bonking chicks way out of their league . I really must buy a ticket to Italy to find out if hot Italian woman are only sexually attracted to the male equivalent of a plain Jane . They women don't need much persuading to get their kit . In fact one of them doesn't even bother taking any of her clothes off so by accident or design it ends up becoming hardcore frotting porn . Being a horror movie sex is always punishable by death but maybe these people are getting punished for being so stupid . Example: " Oh my god . What is that . It's horrible " " I don't know but it's not human . It must be a walking corpse " Duh . Well technically it might still qualify as a human if it's a walking corpse . If past participles don't count then just say zombie . Oh by the way they're old school zombies that stagger at a snails pace so unless you've had your legs amputated you can easily out walk them , but this great idea seems beyond the characters . Maybe they're exhausted from all the sex they've been having ? So what they do is barricade themselves in to a house .with no means to escape . Later on the survivors do the exact thing instead of doing the sensible thing and walking to rescue . Honestly this seems like a documentary on Darwin's theories of natural selection Being an Italian horror movie this means it's been dubbed in to English . I don't know who dubbed it but it sounds like the type of non actors who make William Roache from CORONATION STREET sound like Daniel Day Lewis in comparison . It's that bad and no matter what happens to whom there's hardly any inflexion in the voices which makes a great number of scenes absolutely laughable . This is most prominent in the creepy little kid who looks like Jackie Wright the bald Irish guy from THE BENNY HILL SHOW with a very bad wig and there's a subplot there that will churn your stomach . He's so creepy and weird I'm surprised he didn't scare the zombies to deathThis is really grim and dire stuff but I wouldn't consider it the worst horror film I've ever seen because the unearthly synth soundtrack works quite well and as many people here are very quick to mention the make up on the undead is outstanding and I can't help thinking the make up and effects crew deserved a much better film to show us their obvious talent

Scott LeBrun Are you tired of explanation in horror films? Here's an Italian zombie flick, full of all of the requisite flesh munching, that never dwells too long on that pesky exposition that might otherwise intrude on all of the fun.Director Andrea Bianchi ("Strip Nude for Your Killer") dives almost right away into the gory set pieces, as a nosy professor creates trouble for his associates by opening a crypt, unleashing a zombie horde that proves to be very relentless in their efforts to make meals out of our various chump victims.Now, these zombies are some of the ugliest one may see in this sort of thing, and are pretty damn smart to boot, being able to manipulate weapons and tools. And our fated-to-be-zombie-dinners human characters sometimes don't try very hard to save their worthless butts. You add to that some typically hilarious work by the actors doing the dubbed in English voices, deliciously ridiculous English dialogue ("You're getting a raise from me, all right, but it has nothing to do with money!"), great music (by Elsio Mancuso and Berto Pisano), an attractive bunch of ladies (Karin Well, Antonella Antinori, and Mariangela Giordano), a generous dose of sex, and some very entertaining masks and makeup effects, and it creates an often quite funny and fairly action packed flick worth checking out.But no review of this movie would be complete without mentioning the reason why it should have a reputation & following: perhaps THE greatest depiction of an Oedipal relationship in the history of cinema, as the extremely memorable Peter Bark (who indeed bears something of a resemblance to director Dario Argento) plays a young man who laments the passing of the days when he could suck on his dear mothers' breast, and gets to relive this experience before the whole sordid story is over.Slip this into your DVD and/or BD player and be prepared to have some good laughs and thrills, done in that irresistibly wild Italian fashion that always guarantees a good time.Eight out of 10.