The House By The Cemetery - 1981 - 5/10
AKA - Quella Villa Accanto al Cimitero
Doctor Peterson dumps his wife and shacks up with his girlfriend in the rambling house.
Before the opening credits, he murders her, then commits suicide.
Yeah, yeah, backstory. Next, Doctor Boyle decides to continue Peterson’s research.
He takes his headcase wife, and whiny moppet son Bob, to the same big ole house.
By the cemetery. Inside, the cellar door is nailed shut. For how long, you wonder.
The family hears voices, sobbings. The house is haunted. Do they bolt out the door?
There’s a burial slab inside the house. Who is buried there? Whoa, it’s Professor Freudstein!
A mysterious babysitter is hired. Moppet Bob chats with a girl no one else sees.
On and on. Lucio Fulci film piles incidents and ideas slapdash, with no thought of continuity or logic.
An utter mess. Nevertheless, I sat there, transfixed, wondering what would happen next.