Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Burial Grounds: Night of Terror - 1981

Also known as simply Burial Grounds.  Or, known as just The Night of Terror.  Or, Zombie 3.  There's a lot of alternate titles.  Yep.  It's one of those.

When you have zombies, insane effects, bizarre acting, incest, breastfeeding, and loads of nonstop action violence all in one movie, how bad can it be?  I was considering not even writing a review, and I also reserve the right to keep this one short.  It's almost more fun to write movie reviews when the movie is kinda crummy, when there's shit to talk about.  

But from pretty much minute one in the movie, something crazy is going on.  First of all, there's endless nudity and sex.  At several points in the movie, we go from a scene where a couple is beginning to get it on and a zombie attacks them, to another scene where a different couple is getting it on and a zombie attacks them.  It's laughable, but in a fun and awesome way.  

This was towards the end of the prime zombie flicks from Italy.  This is Italian schlock hero Andrea Bianchi, well known for Strip Nude for Your Killer, and What the Peeper Saw.  It's all what you expect.  His filmography.  Go ahead, take a looksie if you want. Soft core porn?  Multiple English pseudonyms? Movies with practically zero knowledge on IMDb?  Random and completely different genres of movies? It's all represented here.  

Previously on here I was describing the various scenes where people in the process of fucking would get attacked.  That's also the plot.  A professor opens a crypt, and this starts zombies reanimating all over the place.  There's a group of people visiting a cool castle in the middle of the woods somewhere, and the zombies begin to kill people.  The remaining people all take refuge in the castle, wondering what the hell is going on.  It goes from there.

The effects I have to say are all pretty awesome.  Whether or not they "make sense" they range in terms of a quick looking makeup job to completely disgusting and awesome.  
It's one of those zombie movies where all the people who get raised must've died at the same time, cause they're all about the same rate of decay.  Ah, classic horror.

Music is good, the movie is quick paced, and simply never slows down.  The acting is all over the place and quite horrible in some places.  Especially when there's a 25 year old guy playing about a 12-13 year old boy who has sexual desire for his mom.  Ah man, what a great time I had.  How weird is it I watched this and the Greek film Dogtooth, and both films had weird incestuous overtones?  Talk about a strange double feature.

I'll give this a classic 4 stars for being what you want from a Italian B or C grade zombie entry.

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