robertbisceglia This is a beautifully shot film, the camera work was very good. The movie plot is simple and easy to understand. This is a good paranormal, zombie movie with a simple plot, evil surgeon comes back from the dead and kills all who enter the house by the cemetery. I like how the movie moves quick too. The dead girl play with Bobby was kind of corny and hard to believe at times but the cast acted quite well.

aw1963 I honestly don't get other reviewers who call this tripe a 'masterpiece',it is indeed one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Perhaps it lost something in the awful English dubbing,but I seriously doubt it. All the characters are just plain weird,right up to their reactions to other family members in danger,the husband who stands watching as his wife is attacked by a bat to the mother who forgets to go racing to her son when he's in distress and almost takes a stroll to get there,don't even get me started on characters who do nothing when they are being poked in the chest and neck,having their throats slashed and ripped out,or,don't try to grab something as they are being slowly dragged down stairs. The plot itself is so full of holes it could be used as a collander,and,even for it's time the fx are truly,truly awful. Do yourself a big favour and stay awaay from this incredible stinker.

Neil Welch Father, mother and annoying son move to a creepy old house where - after several years have passed, though only for you, not in the film - mum and dad are killed by the evil old zombie monster which inhabits the house, and annoying son is saved by the ghost of the evil old zombie monster's daughter.If you are a fan of Lucio Fulci and/or overwrought 1970s Italian gorefests then you may indeed regard this film as a masterpiece. I am not - although I remain open minded and open to persuasion - and I thought that this film was almost entirely without merit. I award points for use of tripod, staying in focus, and gore (on the assumption that's why you're watching it).But it makes little sense, the dubbing is poor, it is full of basic amateur technical mistakes (kid screaming down in the basement, parents hear it outside the basement door at exactly the same volume), and is fairly tedious. I thought it was pretty rubbishy.

Joseph Brando The acting? It's bad. ... The dubbing? Atrocious! ... The plot? Huh? ... Photography? Sophomoric ... Character Development? Don't make me laugh!!! However, the gore is nothing short of superb! There are plenty of gory, oozy, bloody, disgusting scenes which the camera lingers on, rather than flashes at, as this film revels in its moments to shine. And there are enough of them to keep the lame dialogue, inexplicable actions, and ludicrous plot holes from making you hurl your TV through the window, just barely. A family moves into a house that is haunted, by a cemetery. The cemetery plays absolutely no role in the film besides for being there. Their outlandishly annoyingly dubbed boy child is seeing a girl who may or may not be a ghost. Is she? I don't know! Nobody else sees her. The basement door is locked and bolted. But they must go down there. They simply must. Again and again. Even after they are attacked by one mean badass bat. They must keep going down there. Some weird lady shows up as a housekeeper or something. She is very weird and they make you think she is going to have some kind of sinister tie-in with the evil that dwells in the house. Does she? I don't know! The real estate agent (none other than a chunkified Dagmar Lassander, queen of Giallo films) also seems like she has some kind of connection to the evil in the house. Does she? I don't know!!If you are into Italian horror films of the late 70's and early 80's - you know what you are in for. An incoherent mess of a film highlighted by gore and bad dubbing. Did I mention the kid in this film has awful awful dubbing by an obvious adult!!! I mean seriously, its the pits! I have seen hundreds of films with bad dubbing but the dubbing on this child sits rightfully on the throne at the top of that heap of crappy dubbing. Especially for a character that is so crucial to the film, you'd think they would at least have found a slightly less annoying voice anywhere!! They could literally have just grabbed any real kid off the street, gave him a candy bar in exchange for dubbing duties and he would have done a much much better job!Everyone in the film does things that just don't make sense! They just do it to get you to the killings. They start to create an air of mystery about something (like those rotating close-up shots of the eyeballs of the characters) and then just abandon it and kill someone! Let me ask you this? If you were a real estate agent who had just sold a "house by the cemetery" to a family, and you're driving away from the house and back into one of the tombstones right in front of the house, knocking it down, as the family is standing right there in the front yard, what would you do? Get out of the car and apologize, right? What does she do? She mumbles "These damn tombstones!!" and speeds off!!! What does the family do? Nothing!!! It's almost like being in a dream and things happen that don't make sense. Ideas are built and then abandoned for the next idea to be partially built and abandoned. There are only two types of people I can see being entertained by this film. A child who would certainly find this to be terrifying (well, maybe a child 25 years ago). And then those who enjoy the randomness just for the sake of it being so ridiculous. Oh yeah, and then those Fulci/Argento gorehound fans who just dig this sort of thing. Somehow I found the swirl of confusion, extreme gore, cold distant unfleshed out characters, and eyeball closeup shots to create a unexplainable creepy vibe, which I'm sure was by accident and not due to the planned technical skill of the director. I give it a 6.