Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Bezenby This film immediately differs itself from the usual Gothic horror films by having a terrified man run away from a strange creature and get his head smashed to bits by a startled horse. Thus starts Terror Creatures From the Grave, a film that wouldn't be out of place being produced about fifteen years later.A lawyer is sent a letter from a client but the lawyer is out of town. His assistant opens the letter and finds a demand from a client called Doctor Hauff that the lawyer better high tail it over to his creepy mansion as soon as possible or else. With the lawyer out of town, his assistant decides to go instead.The lawyer heads to the mansion only to find Doctor Hauff's daughter, a freaked out maid, and the Hauff's wife (Barbara Steele, in full Bitch mode) who states that it would be a bit weird for her husband to send a letter out seeing he died after taking a drunken spill down a flight of steps almost a year ago. The lawyer is all like 'whatever' until he finds he can't leave as an owl has become trapped in the engine of his car (What?).Things aren't what they seem as the mansion has mute servant Luciano Pagozzi lurking about pulling faces, and there's a phonograph recording by Dr Hauff detailing how he's managed to contact the spirits of plague bearer who were infecting people on purpose with the plague (which explains all the mummified hands on display in the mansion's main hall).Also unnerving is the unexplained deaths of the witnesses who were there on the night Dr Hauff died, but did he die? And why are the plague-bearers coming back to life? And why aren't the villagers remotely surprised by any of this? This is probably the earliest example of the pure Italian horror that we would be receiving in the eighties courtesy of Lucio Fulci and Umberto Lenzi. We have an almost non-sensical supernatural storyline that some character attempt to unravel which is really an excuse for some gory deaths. Eyeballs hang from eyesockets, guts protrude from stomachs, buboes burst and drip - in 1965! There are scenes from here that turn up in The Beyond (acid burning a corpse's face) and The Evil Dead (a character listening to a recording of someone contacting demons). It would be easy to say this was an influence on those films, but who knows really? Probably the creepiest, most violent Gothic Horror I've laid eyes on, Terror Creatures is a good starting point for anyone interested in this particular period in Italian Horror. Do note however that possibly the only version out there is blurry, glitch, and with bad sound. Also note however that this is the kind of Italian film where a mere TWO of the cast are left alive at the end.HOWEVER: There is a restored version on YouTube that I watched some of. It has an extended scene at the start with the lawyer receiving the letter, an extended, and creepier, journey to the mansion, an actual shot of the dead owl in the guy's engine (what?), omits the horse killing at the start. I'd like to see a remastered DVD that keeps the best elements of both versions. Thanks. ETC.I forgot about the pure water song! It goes - Pure Wa-

Rainey Dawn When an attorney arrives at a very old manor home of the recently deceased owner, he learns the history of the place: The deceased owner was someone who could summon ancient souls from their graves - they were victims of the plague. The attorney stays to learn more and the occupants of the home will die one by one in a gruesome manner.Barbara Steele is good in the film. The film is worth watching if you like the "spooky old manor home" type of films, Gothic movies and zombies and/or vampires. It's not the best "spooky old manor home" film but it's not the worst - it's a fairly good and entertaining film.This movie would be good to make into a double feature with Nightmare Castle (1965) starring Barbra Steele or even The Old Dark House (1932) with Boris Karloff.7/10

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1965, (5 tombe per un medium), The occupants of a modern day castle begin to die in gruesome violent ways after an attorney arrives to settle the estate of its recently deceased castle owner.*Special Stars- Barbara Steele as lead.*Theme- History can influence today's people and their destiny.*Based on- Medieval Black Plague legends and superstitious folk tales.*Trivia/location/goofs- Italian horror film starring with the most famous leading lady of Gothic horror.*Emotion- A somewhat confusing film trying to follow the massive flashback scenes for the exposition of the castle owners family histories A plot.

tommyknobnocker Saw this one in a version called "Cemetery of the Living Dead" and was left shaking my head at the reviews I saw on IMDb, especially the ones that call this one of the great Gothic horror films.Granted, this film has a lot going for it. First, there's Barbara Steele, who just had to be in a film to guarantee it a creepy quality.Second, there are some great castle sets. The difficulty with this is that you often can't see the expanse of them because the film was shot so tightly, but maybe that's the print I was watching.Lastly, there's the story, which had some definite possibilities. There are plague carriers rising from the grave to spread the infestation. There are suicides to avoid these ghostly creatures. There's the deceased lead character, who has harnessed the power of life and death.The problem is that "Cemetery of the Living Dead" is so cheaply filmed that little of this matters. Instead of suspense, there are endless shots of people walking around rooms and down hallways, all to zero purpose.The plague makeups are also lousy. The dubbing is even worse. Beyond all that, the ghosts of the plague carriers are never shown, unless you count their rubbery "monster" arms. Nowadays, you could buy a better prop at a Halloween shop...for $5.00.Lots of promise to this one, but nothing is delivered. If you like watching people wander around, then this is the movie for you.