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Bookmark this pageThe House by the Cemetery (1981)
Director: Lucio Fulci
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Cut-price spaghetti gore cooked up from the not exactly brand-new narrative premise of a nice middle class family moving to a house in New England with a sinister sitting tenant, the nefarious Dr Freudstein. Bits of Amityville and The Shining, plus every other imaginable mad-scientist, screaming-in-the-cellar, haunted-house horror cliché, shamelessly ripped off, cut and stuck together into (literally) a hack-work of almost awesome incoherence. Even Henry James, irreverently quoted in the closing epitaph, fails to confer any respectability upon the proceedings. Strictly for pulp cultists.Author: SJo
Cast & crew
Director: Lucio Fulci
Producer: Fabrizio De Angelis
Cast: Katherine MacColl, Giovanni De Nari, Paolo Malco, Giovanni Frezza, Giovanni Frezza, Silvia Collatina, Dagmar Lassander full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 86 mins
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