AKA
Quella villa accanto al cimitero
Lucio Fulci
1981
Italy
Uncut running time between 86m 01sec (Laserdisc including trailer) and 82min 28sec on video
UK running time 81min 06 sec before being banned, 1983
Elephant video release 76min 26sec, 1988
Vipco re release 75min 20sec
DVD release 86 min Approx
More fantastic stuff from Fulci, this one concerns Doctor Freudstein, a 150 year old monster kept alive due to using the body parts of his victims to rejuvenate his body. This gives a good excuse for some typical over the top gore scenes with plenty of nasty stabbings, and other assorted gruesome murders. This is trademark Fulci, the usual dream like sequences as seen in "The Beyond" and "City of the living dead" are there and any fan of his other greats will love this. It's not his best film in my opinion, the Beyond is a hard to beat, but it's still up there with the best. Cut to shreads in the UK as usual, banned for a while and re-released in it's present form. Get it uncut or don't bother as the cuts are terribly done and very obvious (scene1: raised knife ready for murder. Scene2: Dragging blood-soaked body away. I wonder if that was cut??) Give me a break!!
Gore
One gore scene of particular note is a nasty decapitation scene, only this one takes many slashes to the throat spraying blood everywhere before finally falling off. Otherwise the usual cool Fulci gore applies.
DVD Extras
Trailer
Filmography
Biography
Still Gallery
Interview with Lucio Fulci