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Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror
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| Burial Ground | |
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| Directed by | Andrea Bianchi |
| Produced by | Gabriele Crisanti |
| Written by | Piero Regnoli |
| Starring | Karin Well Gianluigi Chirizzi Simone Mattioli Antonella Antinori Roberto Caporali Claudio Zucchet Peter Bark Anna Valente Raimondo Barbieri Mariangela Giordano |
| Music by | Elsio Mancuso |
| Cinematography | Gianfranco Maioletti |
| Distributed by | Shriek Show |
| Release date(s) | January 23, 1981 |
| Running time | 85 min |
| Language | Italian (English dub) |
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Burial Ground: Nights of Terror (Le Notti del terrore) is an Italian zombie movie directed by Andrea Bianchi with cult status, primarily due to the casting of a middle aged dwarf as the child of an incestuous relationship. Furthermore, the poor quality acting and dubbing add to its cult charm.
A professor who is studying an ancient crypt near a cemetery accidentally opens evil from beyond the grave on a burial ground. The curse unleashes the dead to rise up from their grave to devour the living for their cannibalistic needs, lucky for the undead, their main course will be a group of socialites having a weekend in a large mansion.
Burial Ground is famous for Peter Bark's portrayal of young Michael. Although Bark was in reality an adult dwarf, in the film he plays an adolescent boy. Bark turns in a performance as a young lad that lusts after his mother, both before and after he becomes a zombie.
During the 1980s, this film was difficult to get a hold of in the UK in its uncut form due to the stricter rules regarding the Video Recordings Act of 1984. It was instead released on video in a heavily censored form under the title Nights Of Terror, having 25 minutes of footage removed[citation needed]. As of 2004 the film has been available uncut under the title The Zombie Dead.
This film differs from many other zombie films in that the zombies actually consciously utilize weapons, including: pitchforks, machetes and other gardening implements, much like Bill Hinzman's Flesheater.
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