The usually on-target Lamberto Bava, who will always have a special place in my little black heart for giving us the surreally spooky and outrageous ghoulathon "Demons," hits his profoundly putrid nadir with this hideously botched would-be horror flick parody. A quintet of wholly obnoxious and insufferable teenage gals and guys decide to spend an entire night in a musty, creepy, dirty and allegedly haunted old tomb. If these unlikable idiots survive the ordeal -- they're tediously stalked by a woefully ragged and less than frightening assortment of vampires and zombies -- they'll get their grubby paws on a valuable treasure. This completely thudding dud suffers tremendously from Bava's leaden direction, which is sadly bereft of his trademark dazzling style, pungent brooding atmosphere, and frenzied logic-be-damned breakneck pacing. Instead we've got a dreary gradual tempo, insipid and unspectacular cinematography that goes overboard on clunky, murky and unappealing fog-ridden visuals, and an embarrassingly ham-handed attempt at a jokey overripe farcical tone. Worse yet, the adolescent characters are totally detestable: they whine, scream, bicker, play dumb pranks on each other, act in a most selfish and annoying manner, and generally wear out their welcome some 10-odd minutes into the picture. The lame and tiresome dialogue is absolutely painful on the ears (sample moronic banter: "Can't you stretch your vocabulary any further that that?" "Yeah, defecation, okay?"). Bava co-wrote the poor, hopelessly witless and unfunny script with insanely prolific veteran Italian schlock movie scribe Dardano Sacchetti; they presumably slapped this piece of crud together during a single booze-sodden weekend. Actionless, laughless, and basically worthless, this incredibly bad bilge flat out stinks.

Made for cable-TV, a cheesy synopsis and director Bava who had just delivered his very weak "Demons 2" sequel...There were more than enough omens to warn me that this "Graveyard Disturbance" would be a waste of time and not worth purchasing. Yet, I'm a fan of most of the man's work and even a mediocre Italian horror film is still better than an over-hyped American one, so I gave it a look anyway. Since this is a TV-production, you can't really compare it with Lamberto Bava's more serious horror films and that also explains the lack of gore and controversy (aspects that are normally well-present in Bava-films). The story is light-headed, simple and cliché, introducing five rebel-teenagers who strand at a ghostly cemetery after a fleeing from their daily shoplifting routines. They meet a spooky looking bartender who offers them a bet they can't refuse. They're promised a pricey reward when they manage to spend the night in the eerie catacombs underneath the cemetery. The script (partly written by Lamberto Bava himself) is really weak and the dialogues are pitiful. The film is only made endurable by a few ingenious sequences (like the freak-family's dinner party inside the crypt), some atmospheric set pieces and professional make-up effects. The zombies look good and the giant eyeball scene is the only slightly suspenseful moment in the entire film. Bava also obviously attempted to insert humor and parody in his screenplay but this was far from effective (I didn't laugh, at least). I'm not even going to waste words on the acting performances as they are truly amateurish. Most cast-members are nonetheless Bava regulars who acted remarkably better in "Foto di Goia" and "Demons". Overall, Graveyard Disturbance is worth a peek in case you've already seen every other Italian horror film or when you're really bored.

Lamberto Bava's "Graveyard Disturbance" is pretty lame.It starts off with five teens doing their daily shoplifting in a grocery store.Evading the police they drive off in their van to eventually come to the creepy inn.They are welcomed by a strange man with glowing red eye,and soon take on the bet which they simply can't refuse.The script by Lamberto Bava and Dardano Sacchetti is mediocre,the acting is pretty bad and the gore is non-existent.There are some atmospheric moments and the zombies look very creepy.The scene,where someone falls into a pit of rotting corpses is clearly borrowed from Dario Argento's "Phenomena".Give it a look,if you have enough time to waste-just don't expect anything special.

Really, this movie is big dissapointment - plot is weak (what plot?), there is no euro-horror style, everything is so lame (especially ending) ... pretty dull, boring, silly ... Bava's weakest job! Only good thing here is FX makeup which is pretty decent and really very gory for one TV film.All in all, sad product of Lamberto Bava.2/10