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THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY

Quella villa accanto al cimitero

1981 • IT HMDB
August 14, 1981

After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his studies and moves his family into the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.

Cast

Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza, Silvia Collatina, Dagmar Lassander, Giovanni De Nava, Gianpaolo Saccarola, Carlo De Mejo, Kenneth A. Olsen
Horror Mistero

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Marco Castellini

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Professor Norman Boyle moves with his family to New England where he must complete some research on a mysterious doctor who disappeared a hundred years earlier. After a series of disturbing events, the writer discovers that the terrible doctor never died, lives hidden in the basement of the house and continues to stay alive by killing everyone who crosses his path and transplanting their organs onto himself... Some consider it the "usual horror film" while others praise it as a masterpiece, the truth as usual lies in between: certainly some sequences of the film are memorable, scary and splatter as only Fulci knew how to do, but the film also has some limits, the most obvious of which is a screenplay - once again the work of Dardano Sacchetti - rather approximate. The excellent special effects and makeup are once again the merit of the always skilled Giannetto De Rossi. Therefore, if you like Fulci's cinema, "That house next to the cemetery" represents a sort of icon and you will surely appreciate it, if you prefer "more refined" horrors it is better to look elsewhere. A couple of curiosities: Fulci, as often happens in his films, carves out a small cameo, let you have the fun of discovering which one... It must also be said that our "poet of the macabre" was very proud of this horror, in one of his last interviews given before his death he stated that the ending of the film is "...one of the most chilling sequences I have ever shot", and one can only agree with him... See for yourself!