Where do I start! This movie was made by the amazing Lucio Fulci . This is part of the GATES OF HELL trilogy. Lucio Fulci pulls out all the stops with this movie about an 8 year old boy named "Bob" who is the son of his parents. They decide to move to a haunted house that is literally on a cemetery. In fact, there is a TOMB in the living room of this house. Bob is able to see a ghost girl and she warns him to not live in the house. There is one scene where Bob finds a doll and plays with it in a park. Bob's parents don't believe him when he sees his babysitters head roll down the steps to the basement. When Bob is trapped with the doctor, who is kept alive with dead bodies to regenerate his cells, Bob is able to escape. Sadly Bob is just not able to really deal with the scary corpse doctor who, by the way, looks like he is made out of bully sticks for dogs. There is one annoying scene where Bob, who is dubbed with a wimpy American accent, talks to the ghost girl from 100 yards away. Not sure why, but that scene bothered me. I hope that you love this movie as much as I do. Alone with City of the Dead and The Beyond, THBTC is the finale of the trilogy. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, that the killing scenes are gruesome as you would expect. And when the doctor is stabbed, his blood comes out but the blood is mostly blood soaked MAGGOTS!!
Review of The House by the Cemetery
The House by the Cemetery
(1981)
Amazingly GREAT movie by the great director! Fulci!
23 December 2020