Burial Ground AKA The Nights Of Terror (Andrea Bianchi, 1980)
"You look just like a little whore, but I like that"
Strip nude for your killer! Director Andrea Bianchi's 1980 effort Le notti del terrore is pure Euro-zombie sleaze trash... with an added bonus of a bizarre man-child in the cast! This American shriek show DVD release has it all: Sexy naked ladies, terrible dubbing, incest, exploding heads, cool jazz music, freaky electronic music and a even freakier miniature man masquerading as a child! Jeepers. In fact, the miniature man is 'Peter Bark' (actually Pietro Barcella), who may or may not have been 26 when he made this movie. I think his character Michael is supposed to be 11 or 12, but Bianchi clearly cast him because of the creepy incest scene, and quite possibly to freak out the audience because of his erm, 'unique look'. Yes, and it appears he's wearing a terrible wig! Oh, and then there's the maggots. Maggots? Maggots... MAGGOTS, MAGGOTS, MAGGOTS, MAGGOTS.
Anyhoo, the story is this: A mad, bearded professor awakens some zombies, who attack a trio of couples on heat! That's the story. The zombies themselves are quite cunning. They can use axes, throw knives & climb pillars & walls. Blimey. All this nonsense adds up to a ludicrous yet very entertaining zombie flick.
So bad it's good.
