The House By The Cemetery (1981)

Review:

So there is this scientist from New York who has to move to Boston to finish a work that a colleague started before, so they tell him, he killed his his wife and then himself. At this point, his son starts seeing a ghost girl on a photograph.

In Boston he moves into the house where his colleague Petersen had lived, and he finds out that Petersen wasn’t doing the research that he was supposed to do, he instead was obsessed with a long dead surgeon called Freudstein.

In fact, the place where he and his family are staying now is the Freudstein mansion, and guess what, this place is haunted.

Not going to lie, this movie has ghosts and atmosphere and shock and suspense and a fair amount of blood. While watching this I thought that I would have got to complain about all the plot holes and how the various elements of the story just don’t fit together. People who call this a masterpiece are invited to explain all the logic bugs to me. I just feel like Fulci tried to create a masterpiece, and when he realized that he just didn’t have it in him, he decided to go for a massive overuse of blood and cheap thrills and then top it with a sad SAD mystery ending to add some artistic flavor.

What can I say? It works! I could write endless paragraphs about the shortcomings of this movie, but I don’t, because it really got me and I really like it!

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