One of the greatest living dead films of all time, Burial Ground The Nights of Terror delivers on every level a zombie fan could hope for. Made in the great era of the Italian living dead/gore genre, BG is a non-stop zombie attack filled with insane dialogue, bizarre characters, and takes place in a beautiful yet eerie mansion. The make-up effects range from crude to excellent, with lots of carnage shown in great gory detail. Some of the zombies are truly memorable, such as "old one-eye" and the zombie that has maggots falling from its eye sockets. These zombies don't play games, they use weapons and will stop at nothing to get what they want--tasty warm flesh! I've watched this countless times and it delivers with every viewing. The wonderful Peter Bark makes a spectacular appearance as the unforgettable Michael, a young man who loves his Mama...perhaps a bit TOO much. The musical score also adds much to the atmosphere and bizarre visuals. The don't make'em like this anymore!

If you thought that ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS was a low budget, poorly-made film, then wait until you see this rip-off! Andrea Bianchi disposed of a story entirely and instead hired Gino de Rossi (son of Giannetto) to create as many gut-wrenchingly gruesome moments as he possibly could on the film's poor budget. The plot consists of a group of people hiding out in a variety of locations - a mansion, a monastery, a model storeroom (!) and being picked off one by one by a pack of unruly zombies which have risen from the local caves after an interfering professor accidentally re-awoke their corpses! Just about everything in this movie is inept and that's what makes it fun. The lighting is almost non-existent; scenes are either bright or dark with nothing in between, no shadows for suggestion or anything. The dubbing is particularly stilted with inappropriate voices for the actors and actresses which don't match their characters at all. The sound varies between a laid-back jazz score and some weird computer noises in the zombie scenes which don't have the desired effect. The zombies themselves look pretty mouldy and scary thanks to some good masks and make-up, although you can see human skin in between the joins once too often for my liking. They are also tool users and grab a wide variety of weapons to help with their conquest. Although they are some of the slowest shamblers ever to grace a horror movie, they seem to have no trouble cornering the humans at every stage, at one point disguising themselves as monks to capture an unwilling victim!The movie is full of weird and wonderful characters. The first person we meet is a professor with a huge beard. Upon encountering the zombies, he cries "Stand back - I'm your friend!" Hilarious. The most memorable character of all is 'Michael' a supposed teenage boy actually played by a dwarf actor (why? Was there a shortage of child actors around or would they not allow a child to partake in some of the more adult scenes?) who sniffs a piece of rag and says "Momma! This cloth smells of death!". He also has Oedipal desires which come to a climax in the infamous scene at the conclusion! Another guy shouts "Whatever it is, it's not human!" on his encounter with a zombie - but isn't that obvious? Many scenes explicitly rip-off ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, like a guy having his leg grabbed while embracing a girl ("Who are you?!"), a zombie rising from the ground, and a scene where a girl is pulled toward a shard of glass and killed. It's genuinely funny throughout, especially in scenes where people just stand and watch the zombies as they come towards them! Hello - you're about to get eaten - don't you think you better do something? Those crazy Italians! Other amusing moments have the zombies setting a man-trap in the garden for their next victim and working as car park attendants! One of them is particularly handy with knives and must have worked in a circus before he died.The setting of the deserted mansion is actually pretty eerie, although again it has been stolen from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. There's an atmosphere of unease in the sense that a zombie could be lurking behind any door or corner. Of course such few eerie moments as there are, are countered by ludicrous others like the "shooting gallery" scene where a victim repeatedly shotguns the heads of the zombies causing them to explode all over! This causes the rest of the zombies to run off into the woods and return with better weapons next time. One other extremely weird moment has a zombie being thrown over a wall, and for some reason this is filmed in slow-motion. Whatever the intention, the effect is absolutely hilarious.Oddly, the freeze-frame ending actually works in this film; it closes in a downbeat fashion with one victim being shoved into a circular saw blade, the other being artistically surrounded by zombie hands. There's an amusing poem that comes up on screen that talks about the "nigths of terror" and the "profecy of the black spider" - hilarious stuff. And that's the ending of what may be one of the most poorly-made zombie movies out there, but is also one of, if not the, most hilarious with it, although I'm not sure how it would stand up to repeat viewing! Cheesy stuff from pasta-land, to be sure, so don't go in expecting a proper "film", as this is as far as you can get from a mainstream movie.The cheap gut-munching effects are plentiful but hardly realistic, only seen in close up to disguise the fact that its sheep offal or whatever. Most of the blood and gore is poorly done and lacking in realism - Gino obviously didn't inherit his dad's ace makeup talents. Even the nastiest scene - in which a woman has her breast bitten off and eaten - is really schlocky and the film-makers don't even go to the trouble of hiding the model breast that's used. However, at least the movie has a purpose now as a low budget stomach-churner, a bad film come good and a howl for genre lovers. Behold the "nigths" of terror!

these films are the things that make me be proud to be Italian ... movies to watch in brain off ... trashy , fun, bloody scenes in rivers , sex and drama enough ... Veteran horror director Andrea Bianchi is a little shaky, mind-boggling ZOOM and hastiness in turn but compensated by the excellent special effects master Giannetto De Rossi ...so the blood spilled in this film between decapitated heads , torn nipples bitten by a fantastic dwarf zombies and undead rotting between filthy worms ... if you like old horror movies artisan Italian is a must this cult , for everyone else there is always Shining to watch ... passed with flying colors ...

Similar to but in my opinion more fun than the Fulci zombi films. There's no real logic at all. The story simply throws three couples into a grand old vacation property where, for the film's first twenty minutes, they portray sex scenes and nudity. Then the unexplained, unrelenting zombi attacks begin. There's plenty of gore, suspenseful chase sequences, and scenes of terror.Though the story and the character behaviour made little sense I found much of the film pretty tense. The audience feels little or no empathy with the dim witted characters on screen (the jet setters are still ordering the servants around after the zombi attack has begun: 'Maid, go off alone and investigate, will you?!'). Yet despite this the many scenes where they are being pursued by the horrific looking zombies can be quite chilling, even though in the end you are glad when the silly victims finally do get eaten. The sumptuous mansion and grounds made a much more atmospheric location than the simple huts and palms of the Fulci films set on tropical islands.Actor Peter Bark is a very short 25 year old man made-up to resemble a teenager. His character has an incestuous love of his beautiful mother. They used an adult for this part because Italian child labour laws forbade use of an actual child in a film of this sort. The female cast members are all very beautiful and glamorous and provide the expected nudity nice and early in the film. They all get to appear in extended love scenes with their unattractive male partners.