Product Details

• Actors: Karin Well, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Simone Mattioli, Antonella Antinori, Roberto Caporali
• Directors: Andrea Bianchi
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Shriek Show
• DVD Release Date: June 11, 2002
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (89 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000063K1F
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,589 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Burial Ground - Night of Terror" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unabashed gore classic, March 6, 2004

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Matthew King (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Burial Ground - Night of Terror (DVD)

Burial Ground is absolutely one of the best entries in the glut of Italian zombie/cannibal films to have been released in the late 70's and early 80's. A fine example of so bad it's great and an absolute party pleaser too. The plot is bare bones simple: A prologue shows an archaeology professor accidentally reviving the dead while on a research field trip. Fast forward a while later. A bunch of guests receive an invitation from this professor to spend a few days of rest and relaxation at his mansion. To their great surprise, they arrive at the mansion with no professor in sight. What they do encounter however are tons (and I do mean tons) of the walking undead praying for their flesh.

The thing I like the most about Burial Ground is the pacing. The initial 20 minutes are somewhat slow but after that we're talking slam bam pacing that never lets go, something you would not get from say, a Lucio Fulci flick. I'm a big fan of Fulci's films but in between zombie attacks things move at a snail's pace. Burial Ground however is as fast as a roller-coaster with innumerable zombie attack scenes and especially creative scenes of gore (although the shard of glass in the eye is definitely in homage to Fulci's Zombie). The zombies look cheap and are super slow but one thing they're not is stupid. How many zombie films do we see where the ghouls use scythes, pitchforks and axes as weapons and even collectively gather to use a battery ram to force their way in? In many ways, these zombies act way more logically than their human victims. I guess the professor did a fine job of tutoring them.

Sure this movie is ridiculous but most zombie films are anyway. There's so much to laugh about in this film. The acting? Please. All of the actors are dubbed anyways and are never given any decent opportunity to show off their ability. The dubbing is atrocious in the worst way. It's one thing when the lips are not in synch with the translator but quite another when the voice comes out as an echoey sound from a different room! One thing that's a winner is the transfer which is surprisingly clear. Due to this quality transfer the film never appears to be as old as it is except for the clothing the actors are wearing of course.

I wish more zombie movies were this unabashedly over-the-top. Tons of gore, tons of nudity, breakneck pacing, a few scenes of incest thrown in for good measure and that's Burial Ground for you. Even though the film is laughable and ultra cheesy, director Andrea Bianchi is still somehow able to instill a genuine sense of terror throughout. There's no happy go lucky ending here folks. Great movie, great transfer, great extras. A must own film for fans of the genre.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good bloody zombie fun!, February 10, 2005

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John Lindsey "John" (Socorro, New Mexico USA.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Burial Ground - Night of Terror (DVD)

A professor whom is studying a ancient crypt near a cemetery accidently opens evil from beyond the grave on a burial ground. The curse unleashes the dead to rise up from their grave to devour the living for their cannibalistic needs, lucky for the undead, their main course will be a group of socialites having a weekend in a large mansion.

Somewhat entertaining but gruesome supernatural Italian horror thriller with some flaws such as the phoney looking zombies themselves with the acting, but the gore is definitely nasty even the infamous breastfeeding scene that you'll never forget.

The DVD has a better transfer than the dark and danky Vestron VHS version with great sound, the extras aren't too shabby such as the interview with the director & actress, original trailer to the movie with trailers to other Shreik Show presentations and a neat poster-and-still gallery.

This movie is recommended to gorehounds, zombie movie fans and horror lovers everywhere but those who are squeamish should stay away.

Also recommended: "Night of the Living Dead" ( 1968 and 1990), "Dawn of the Dead" ( 1978 and 2004), "Day of the Dead", "Demons", " Resident Evil 1 & 2", " The Evil Dead", "House By The Cemetery", "Zombie", "City of the Living Dead ( a.k.a. The Gates of Hell)", " Re-Animator", "Dead Heat ( 1988)", " Hell of the Living Dead ( a.k.a. night of the Zombies)", " Zombi 3", "Zombi 4: After Life", " Blood Diner", "Maniac" ( 1980), "Suspiria", "Tenebre", "Phenomena", " Pet Semetery", " Evil Dead II", " The Haunting ( 1963)", "The Others", " Cannibal Ferox", "Cannibal Holocaust", " The Return of the Living Dead trilogy", " The New York Ripper", "House on The Edge of the Park", "Versus", "Freddy Vs. Jason", "House of the Dead", "House ( 1986)", and "The Beyond".

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best zombie films ever!, June 17, 2002

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bellini trice "bell" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Burial Ground - Night of Terror (DVD)

If you like sex and gore in equal helpings, look no further. If you like zombies who learn how to use garden implements and battering rams against the hapless humans they intend to munch out on, look no further. If you enjoy terrible acting/dubbing from a cast of virtual nobodies and the brain-searing sight of a 'child' being played by a thirtysomething year old midget, look no further.

Not so brilliantly acted or directed, Andrea Bianchi's Burial Ground is one of my favorite zombie films ever. It's sleazy, gory and unbelievably--well, you'll just have to see for yourself. Grab all your friends, have some beers and settle in, because this is a film you'll watch over and over and over again because it's just so amazing.

The DVD transfer is gorgeously bright! which is terrific, as the VHS copies floating around for years were so dark it was difficult to make out what was what from time to time. Now you can enjoy watching terrified victims stand around making mock horror faces as s-l-o-w moving zombies who appear to have flowerpots on their heads lumber s-l-o-w-l-y towards them in full living color.

Favorite line? "I've got an idea! We'll let them in! Maybe it's not US they want, but something IN the house!"

Yes. By all means, let them in.

Fabulous movie.