Wednesday, October 27, 2010

BURIAL GROUND: THE NIGHTS OF TERROR (1981)

Zombies attack a group of people vacationing at a secluded country estate. The End.

I like this movie. It’s not impressively made and there’s nothing fancy going on. Just a straight-forward story about zombies chasing people around a large country estate. One of the things that I enjoyed the most is all of the humans, when they see a zombie, literally stop and stand there screaming until the zombies slowly shuffle over and kill them. It's like the zombies have some kind of telepathic freeze ray or something. Any normal, halfway athletic person with an aluminum baseball bat could kill every zombie in this movie.

In the grand scheme of things, BURIAL GROUND is not great movie, but I like it and it would make a great double feature with 1974's LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE. Steady pace, mild female nudity, plenty of funky-looking slow-moving zombies, really stupid humans, son/mother incest, leg caught in trap while fleeing zombies, zombies using tools and weapons, nice amount of blood and gore, no CGI.

If you like the older Italian zombie movies, then I say check it out.