Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror

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Burial Ground
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Directed by	Andrea Bianchi
Produced by	Gabriele Crisanti
Written by	Piero Regnoli
Starring	Karin Well Gianluigi Chirizzi Simone Mattioli Antonella Antinori Roberto Caporali Claudio Zucchet Peter Bark Anna Valente Raimondo Barbieri Mariangela Giordano
Music by	Elsio Mancuso
Cinematography	Gianfranco Maioletti
Distributed by	Shriek Show
Release date(s)	January 23, 1981
Running time	85 min
Language	Italian (English dub)
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Burial Ground: Nights of Terror (Le Notti del terrore) is an Italian zombie movie directed by Andrea Bianchi with cult status, primarily due to the casting of a middle aged dwarf as the child of an incestuous relationship.

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A professor who is studying an ancient crypt near a cemetery accidentally opens evil from beyond the grave on a burial ground. The curse unleashes the dead to rise up from their grave to devour the living for their cannibalistic needs, lucky for the undead, their main course will be a group of socialites having a weekend in a large mansion.

Burial Ground is famous for Peter Bark's touching portrayal of young Michael, although Bark was in reality an adult dwarf. Bark turns in a heart-wrenching performance as a young lad that lusts after his mother, both before and after he becomes a zombie. this is a hard one to get hold of in the uk uncut. it was released on video in a heavily censored form, losing around 25 minutes of footage. the character of micheal actually feasts on his mothers breast in a very graphic sequence. although in the film nightmare city, a woman has her breast cut of with a knife. this is now available uncut. maybe `nights of terror` will be made available as well. though i doubt it as apart from the scenes of gore, the film had little else going for it.