The House by the Cemetery (1981)
- Original title
- Quella villa accanto al cimitero
- Directed by
- Lucio Fulci
- Genre
- horror film, slasher film, zombie film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 448 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A family moves into a mysterious New England house with a dark history. A demonic killer begins murdering people, and the basement holds a terrifying secret.
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What happens
The House by the Cemetery (Italian: Quella villa accanto al cimitero) is a 1981 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Lucio Fulci, co-written with Dardano Sacchetti and Giorgio Mariuzzo, and starring Katherine MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza, Silvia Collatina, and Dagmar Lassander. The third and final installment in Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy, preceded by City of the Living Dead and The Beyond, the plot revolves around a series of murders committed by a ghoulish and demonic serial killer taking place in a Massachusetts home that happens to be hiding a gruesome secret within its basement walls. Fulci developed the screenplay for The House by the Cemetery with inspiration from the works of H. P. Lovecraft, while co-writer Sacchetti was influenced by the novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Principal photography took place in the spring of 1980 in New York City and the Greater Boston area, with additional photography occurring in Rome at the De Paolis In.Co.R. Studios. Upon its premiere in Italy in August 1981, The House by the Cemetery became a domestic box-office success, grossing 462 million Italian lire, making it Fulci's most profitable horror film released in the 1980s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Reborn (1981)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.