Marc Patterson of Brutal as Hell rated the film 2/5 stars and called it "uninteresting and dismissible." Sara Castillo of Fearnet stated that the film is "notable for its near total lack of plot and bloody zombie breast-feeding scene". Peter Dendle called it "a high-impact, somber dirge that sustains tension mercilessly and wastes little time on plot and circumstance." Dendle states that though it is often dismissed as a cheap clone of Zombi 2, Burial Ground improves on that film's strong points. In June 2011, Shriek Show released it on Blu-ray. 2 includes Burial Ground: Nights of Terror, Flesheater, and Zombie Holocaust. It is available separately or in a triple feature package Zombie Pack, Vol. The film was released on DVD in the U.S in September 2006 by Shriek Show. The first legitimate uncut release of the film in the UK did not arrive until 2016, when the BBFC waived all cuts for 88 Films blu-ray/DVD. In the UK the film was released on VHS, on the Apex label, in 1986 as Nights of Terror with over 13 minutes of BBFC and distributor cuts, before being re-released in a more complete, but still censored, version in 2002 on DVD by Vipco, as The Zombie Dead. It was subsequently released on VHS by Vestron Video under the alternative title of Burial Ground. Release īurial Ground: Nights of Terror was given a belated limited release theatrically in the United States by the Film Concept Group in 1985. The 25-year-old Peter Bark was cast as the young boy Michael to circumvent Italian laws restricting the use of children in film scenes featuring sexual and violent content. Large portion of the film's budget was used on the special effects by Gino De Rossi and Rosario Prestopino. The film was shot in four weeks, at the Villa Parisi in Frascati, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Rome. The misspelled "Profecy of the Black Spider" then appears on the screen ("The Earth shall tremble, graves shall open.they shall come among the living as messengers of death, and there shall be the nigths (sic) of terror") as the film ends. The last two survivors, Mark (Gianluigi Chirizzi) and Janet (Karin Well), are assaulted and killed by zombies in the workshop as the scene fades, the zombies put their hands on Janet's head while she screams in terror. Evelyn offers Michael to suckle at her breast, and he bites off her nipple. The zombie monks chase the rest of the survivors to a workshop in the middle of the forest, where they encounter the zombified Michael. They then find a monastery but discover that all the monks have become zombies. The remaining survivors escape from the mansion and hide out until morning. Evelyn goes off to get Michael but finds Leslie has killed him, then has a nervous breakdown. The group then decides to let the zombies inside the house, reasoning that they can distract them while they escape. Evelyn slaps him, and he runs off, screaming, "What's wrong?! I'm your son!" Michael then encounters the zombified Leslie, another guest, and stands still and stares at her while she shambles towards him, snarling and covered in blood. Michael, however, seems to be becoming sexually attracted to his mother and fondles her breasts while kissing her. One of the guests, the young Michael (Peter Bark), has become traumatized, and his mother, Evelyn (Mariangela Giordano), tries comforting him in another room. Zombies then break into the mansion and attack the guests in the library. One of the guests, George (Roberto Caporali), tries shooting at them but quickly runs out of bullets. The zombies then start to display unusually high levels of intelligence, using tools, axes to chop through doors, etc. The group locks themselves in the mansion, and the zombies begin their siege past nightfall. Rotting corpses quickly attack the guests as they begin rising from their graves. Three jet-set couples and the son of one of the women arrive at the mansion at the scientist's invitation. The curse reanimates the dead buried in the area, and the zombies devour the scientist. It is one of several films released under the alternative title of Zombie 3.Ī scientist studying an ancient crypt near a grand mansion accidentally unleashes an evil curse. Burial Ground (original title: Le Notti del terrore, also known as Nights of Terror, Zombi Horror, The Zombie Dead) is an Italian grindhouse zombie movie directed by Andrea Bianchi.
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