The Nights Of Terror (1981)

(AKA: Burial Ground)

My rating 5/10

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After discovering an ancient crypt a professor invites a group of people to his mansion to celebrate his discovery. Once the group arrive they quickly find themselves under attack from a group of flesh hungry zombies that the professor disturbed.

This Italian zombie movie falls firmly in the so bad it's good catagory. Bad acting, lots of nudity, plenty of sleaze, lots of gore and pretty much everything else you could want from this type of thing. It's most famous for having what looks to be a man in his 30s playing a child and who has a sexual fixation on his mother. This ends up with the show stopping scene of him taking a large bite out of his mothers breast when she offers it to him to suck on.

Guts ripped out, throats torn open, limbs chopped off, intesting munching and much more are presented in lingering detail courtesy of effects legend Gianetto De Rossi. The locations look great as it was mostly filmed in a real castle and the surrounding gardens. It's dumb as hell but one you need to see to believe. It can be a little slow moving to start with, but once the zombies start attacking it doesn't let up. Far from being the best zombie movie you'll ever see, but it's wonderfully entertaining for the wrong reasons.

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