WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema: Burial Ground 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:08.719 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.000 Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.000 This is Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.360 Happy New Year to everyone. Of course, as we enter 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.920 a new year, it's out with the old and in 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.520 with the new. Right wrong, because it's going to be 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.080 out with the new and in with the old. As 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.640 in The Rising Dead the Undead. We're kicking off twenty 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.000 twenty six on Weird House Cinema with a healthy dose 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.600 of optimism, but with Keith gritted against the onslaught of decay. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:44.000 It's time to discuss another grotesque Italian gut munching zombie 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.040 film from the nineteen eighties. Yes, we just did one 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.000 in October, but now it's January and the dead must 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:50.640 rise again. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.120 Well put, yeah, this is going to be I think 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.240 of a somewhat different flavor in The one we did 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.960 in October was actually our Halloween episode was for Luccio 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.400 Fulci's City of the Living Dead, part of his Gates 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:12.759 of Hell trilogy. A weird, dream like, almost free associative 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:17.200 kind of wander through strange bits of gore and characters 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.160 that don't make a lot of sense, but it's always 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.680 a both gross and nice texture to be over there 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:29.559 in fulciville. Today's film, the nineteen eighty one zombie movie 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.720 Burial Ground, I would say is at least as much 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.720 fun for me, at least as a City of the 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.600 Living Dead, but I would say a notable downgrade in 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.520 the quality of the dream like imagery. It is a 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.680 more ground level film, and in a way you could 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.400 almost say that's a virtue of it because somehow one 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.320 of its main themes is dirt. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.480 Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the film's most well known title 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.480 is Burial Ground. It is essentially dirt. The movie is 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.880 essentially dirt. The motion picture yes, Earth Earth. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.040 You will see it sort of like unfolding as things 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.320 come up from under the turf in the gardens. The 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.680 zombies have a very earthy quality to them. We'll discuss 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.400 more about this later, but Rob, I think was it 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.800 off mic the other day you were comparing the zombies 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.239 in this movie almost like Earth elementals. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.040 Yeah yeah, and not only this movie, but also certain 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.440 other Fulcy films, especially his movie Zombie or Zombie two. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.359 Get into that in just a second, but a number 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.919 of these most famous Italian zombie films of the era 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:41.160 do have these very earthy looking zombies, where a lot 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.200 of effort was put into making them appear not just 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.080 recently dead, but long dead, so dead that they have 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.600 become part of the soil and even have worms wriggling 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.440 throughout their bodies. Now, those worms might not be completely 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.639 biologically accurate. They might be earthworms, they might be maggots 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.680 that have no business on them on a three hundred 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.160 year old corpse, but there are a lot of effort 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.880 is put into giving them that revolting, long dead look. 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:10.720 Yeah, I would agree, and. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.640 Part of that is that they are so dead that 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.640 they are probably mostly soil at that point. There's a 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.720 strong case could be made that yes, they're more animated 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.639 soil than they are reanimated body. And you could probably 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.080 do a fair amount of zombie navel gazing over all 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.399 of this as well. But to be clear, the movie 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.960 we were watching here today is not a deep film 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.000 it is. It doesn't even have that dream like depth 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.600 to it. You can certainly toss around a number of 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.360 interesting concepts that come up in the film, but it 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:50.560 is again sort of a fast and dirty Italian trash 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.680 zombie film, and I love it. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.600 For that my first experience of burial ground. I don't 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.000 remember what year this was, but I don't know, maybe 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:04.000 four or five years ago. My friend Chuck came down 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.800 to visit us and he showed you know, so he 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.680 showed up at our house with, you know, a collection 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.200 of horror movies, as he often does. You know, we 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.680 watch a lot of horror movies together, especially a lot 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.080 of Italian horror movies, and this was at the top 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.520 of his pile. I'd never heard of it, never seen it, 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.359 didn't know what I was in for. But he was 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.919 just like, you need to meet a character named Michael. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.320 So we put it on and afterwards Rachel and I 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:35.040 were very like, what did we just watch? There is 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.960 a lot, I mean, there are a lot of images 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.159 people recall from this movie, some weird bits of gore 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.440 and the kind of the strange combination of like the 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:50.039 baroque mansion setting and the very earthy, soil ridden zombies. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.919 But yeah, one of the things that really sticks with 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.280 people about this movie is the creepiest human character, an 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.480 old man slash child named Michael, who in age is 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:05.960 in some of the weirdest and most shocking behavior this film. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.680 I guess what this movie has in common with another 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:16.680 movie we covered this past year, the Stephen King movie Sleepwalkers, 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:22.839 is out of nowhere Oedipus complex stuff that really doesn't 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.640 connect to anything else in the movie. 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.560 Yes, yeah, yeah, it's a head scratcher in that regard. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.320 We'll get into the basically two main scenes that play out, 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:39.760 three main scenes that play out that pushed this this storyline. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.040 But it's mostly about the zombies, and that's one of 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.440 the reasons. This is one of many films that was 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.760 released in Italy as Zombie three, not to be confused 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.280 with ful Chi's Zombie three, a sequel to his Zombie two, 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.919 which was an uno unofficial sequel to Romero's nineteen seventy 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.560 eight film Dawn of the Dead, which was released in 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.719 Italy as Zombie. So ful chie Zombie three is the 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.159 official Zombie three, as much as these things can at 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:05.919 all be settled. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.240 You mean it's the official unofficial Zombie three, and this 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.440 would be yeah, and this would be the unofficial unofficial 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:15.240 Zombie three. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.599 Right, we have one of many, I believe. Yeah. I 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.840 think we've probably watched an unofficial Zombie three before, or 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.719 at least we've discussed them before. All right, elevator pitch 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.200 For this one, I'm gonna go with one of the 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.680 other titles for it, The Nights of Terror, except mostly 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:30.520 during the day. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.760 Yeah, and sometimes alternating cuts between night and day, just 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:35.719 going back and forth. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.359 Yeah, but I think in general it's supposed to be 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.560 like one night, not even nights, but sometimes it's the 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.880 Nights of Terror. I don't know. Let's listen to part 0:06:43.880 --> 0:07:59.880 of that trailer. Yes, no, no, alright, so that's just 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.440 sample from the trailer because it's mostly music and screams 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.040 and so so forth. But hopefully you heard a little 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.240 bit of the music, because I have to say, this 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.400 is one of those Italian horror movies where the music 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.280 really does a lot of heavy lifting. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.600 I like the music in this one. It's pretty solid. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.200 We'll come back to that more when we talk about 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.880 the folks who did the score, and as we get 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.560 into the plot and speaking of which, Yeah, we're going 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:23.920 to get into the plot in here a bit. We're 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.760 gonna start spoiling some things. If you would like to 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.120 jump out and watch Burial Ground for yourself, well, just 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.920 looking around here in the States. As of this recording, 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.800 it's currently streamable on services like to be the excellent 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.880 Eternal Family. If you want to pick it up on disc, 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.120 head to your local video store. But also you can 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.520 just buy an excellent version from Severn. That's what I 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.920 did it. I'm going to hold it up for you, Joe. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:51.960 No one else can see this, but there you go. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.560 It features a new restored two K scan with full 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.880 shot by shot color correction, various extra features that I'll 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.840 refer to as we discussed the film, and a limited 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:06.080 edition slip case by the always excellent Wes Benzcotter. So 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.280 I had to pick this one up during one of 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.120 Severn's recent Black Friday sales, and I'm glad I did. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.600 It will proudly be displayed inside the drawer where my 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.360 wife lets me keep my horrid blue rays. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.560 Oh well, you're not allowed to have a stack on 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.000 the floor like me, you know. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.679 I mean, I like them in the drawer too. It's 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.600 kind of like it's like a secret stash of trashy films. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.040 I cherish my stack. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.760 All right, Well, shall we discuss some of the folks 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.000 behind this film? I think most of them all but 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.320 one are people we haven't discussed before. But most of 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.800 them are a little more obscure. So the director here 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.560 is Andrea Bianchi, who lived nineteen twenty five through twenty thirteen. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:06.360 Italian film director, best known for his harrorjallo and sexploitation films, 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.320 but he also directed comedies, dramas, actions, and even one 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:15.760 family film, nineteen seventy two's Treasure Island starring Orson Wells 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:16.920 as Long John Silver. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.959 I haven't seen that one, but well I would like to. Yeah, 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:22.720 Orson as Long John Silver. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.560 It can only be amusing and entertaining on some level, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.560 bad or good. Yeah, it probably must be seen. So 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.600 Burial Ground is perhaps his best known film internationally, but 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:41.240 for people more like into Italian exploitation films in eurocinema, 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.200 they might be familiar with some of these other titles. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.680 They're seventy two's What the Peeper Saw that has Brett 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.880 Ecklund in it and child star Mark Lester, who is 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.880 an Oliver. That's supposed to be rather controversial. There's nineteen 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.440 seventy four's Cry of a Prostitute starring Henry Silva. This 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.240 is said to be one of his better films, not 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:06.199 Henry Silva, Beyonce's better films. There's the seventy five Gjallo 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.000 strip Nude for Your Killer. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:13.920 That one great tasteful title, you know in the Jallo tradition. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.840 Rachel and I actually rented that one for Jallo Knight 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.679 a few years back, and I recall that being a 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:26.160 particularly like sweaty, odious bizarre of woman hating and gory 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.400 seventies weirdness. But sometimes that's what you get on Jaalo Knight. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.960 All right, let's see. There's also an exploitation film in 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:37.360 the mix, seventy nine's Malabimba, And there's nineteen eighty five's 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:42.200 Angel of Death aka Commando Mangola, co directed by Jess Franco, 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.440 with Howard Vernon playing Joseph Mangola, and it's apparently an 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:51.200 action movie. So yeah, there's some some trashy and questionable 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:56.920 titles in the filmography there. Yeah, multiple interview subjects on 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.600 the extras on the disc that I watched, though commented 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.640 on the director here being a silver haired gentleman, very 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:08.080 professional to work with, but mostly remembered for his trashier films. Yeah, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.080 all right. The screenplay here is by Piero Regnoli, who 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:16.079 lived nineteen twenty one through two thousand and one. Italian screenwriter, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.400 active from nineteen fifty one through nineteen ninety seven. His 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:25.000 filmography is an Italian B movie explosion. We're talking peplam, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.640 Western's action, romance, erotica, and of course various shades of horror, 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.960 so the likes of fifty seven's Lust of the Vampire 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:37.040 nineteen eighties, Patrick Still Lives. Sixty six is Navajo Joe 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.920 starring Burt Reynolds, Heromberto Lindsay's Nightmare City from nineteen eighty 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.360 eighty two's The Sword of the Barbarians and Guna and 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.880 King of the Barbarians, and Sergio Martinez The Smile of 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.079 the Fox from nineteen ninety two. He wrote four films 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:58.880 for Andrea Bianci, Crib, The Prostitute, Malabimba, Burial Ground, which 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.640 we're talking about m Patrick Still Lives. He also wrote 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:06.480 three Luccio Fulci films. Seventy three is White Fang, nineteen 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.240 nineties Demonia and nineteen ninety one's Voices from Beyond. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.440 Oh, I don't know if I've seen any of those three. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.040 Yeah, those are three that I haven't seen either. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.439 with Voices from the Beyond being definitely one of the 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.240 both that in Demonia being two of the later pictures 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.760 in his filmography. All right, let's get into the cast here, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.920 and I'm going to cover them in different order than 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.439 they're build because the decaying heart of this picture in 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.840 Key tow It's reputation is the oedipal relationship between Evelyn 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:36.840 and her son Michael. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.559 Yes, which goes pretty much in one direction. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.280 Yes, yes, all right, So starting with the family unit, 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:47.880 there's basically like a man and a woman and a child, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.120 and then like two other couples. Yeah, some supporting characters 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.520 and a bunch of zombies, so this won't take too long. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.960 But yeah, starting at the top. Playing Evelyn Michael's hot 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:01.559 mom is mari Angelo Giordano, who lived nineteen thirty seven 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.840 through twenty eleven, Italian actress of stage and screen, former 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:11.920 beauty queen who acted in all manner of films, including historical epics, westerns, comedies, 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.679 but she's often best remembered for her roles in horror 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.160 exploitation cinema of the seventies and eighties. These include a 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.760 pair of nineteen seventy films, Jalloh and Venice, and the 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:27.000 aforementioned Malabemba nineteen eighties. Patrick Still Lives, which by the way, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.000 was an unauthorized sequel in and out itself to the 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:34.280 Australian horror film Patrick Let's See nineteen eighty two, Satan's 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:39.280 Baby Doll and Michael Suavees The Sect in nineteen ninety 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:43.080 one and Let's See Oh. Also of note, she played 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.720 Countess von Fladermouse in the nineteen ninety six Jess Franco 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.560 film Killer Barbies, about a Spanish female punk band that 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.800 winds up in a haunted house. That one also starred 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.480 Santiago Segura from Day of the Beast that we recently 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:58.200 covered on the show. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.720 I would be interested to see this. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.480 Yeah, it looks like it might be fun. I can't tell. 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.440 I don't know much about it, all right, So that's 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.120 Evelyn the mother. She was about forty three when this 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.600 movie was filmed, and then playing her son, Michael is 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.920 Peter Bark born nineteen fifty five, who I believe was 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:20.640 like twenty five at the time. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:26.720 That is odd. My impression is that Michael is supposed 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.120 to be like ten. I don't know, I don't know, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.240 something like that, But he looks like he's been being 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:34.480 played by an old man. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.640 Yeah, like it seems like the situation here is they're like, yeah, 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:44.360 let's really go for an uncomfortable, edible fixation on the 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.360 part of the child, and then we'll have a zombie 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.880 payoff on that later on. But they couldn't cast an 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.560 actual child in a role like this, so they got 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.040 a very short, fully grown man to play the role. 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.960 And then I'm just spitballing here, but I'm guessing they realized, 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.360 you know, it's really hard to buy him as an 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:06.200 actual child, Like he straight up just looks like a man, 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.960 doesn't go off all. Yeah, right, so then maybe they 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.360 just leaned into it more and that's one of the 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.680 reasons we have just such a But it's just such 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.240 a bizarre relationship portrayed on the screen. I mean, to 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.880 be clear, you never really mistake any of the human 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.680 characters in this for real people, you know, it's it's 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.880 not that sort of film. But you never buy this 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.760 guy as as a kid. He's you just get this 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.640 uncanny feeling about him, though, and that does feel like 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.200 legitimately weird and unsettling on the screen. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.320 Yeah, I guess he is part little kid, part twenty 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:40.960 five year old, part old man. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.280 Yeah. Yeah, because he's also yeah, he's made up in 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.280 kind of ghastly makeup. Yes, so he does. Even before 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:51.080 he you know, spoiler, gets zombiefied. That's going to come 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.000 much later. But yeah, even before then, he already feels 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:55.440 weird and otherworldly. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.560 It looks like they have gone out of their way 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.520 to make him look pale and sickly. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah, so Peter bark here. He only has 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.600 a scattering of credits, mostly Italian screwball comedies from seventy 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.040 nine through eighty three, and this is his only horror film, 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.760 all right, And then so that's that's Evelyn, Evelyn's kid, 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:20.040 and then Evelyn's husband or current partner. I'm not sure. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:25.400 This is George and he is played by Roberto Capperatti. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.880 Dates unknown on this particular actor. He was active from 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:33.359 nineteen sixty through nineteen ninety four, and this and nineteen 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:38.840 eighty's Terror Express are his only horror films. But is ohka, sorry, 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.879 I didn't mean to interrupt. I was just gonna say. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:45.600 His other work seems pretty varied, including Fellini's nineteen eighty 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.280 three film and The Ship Sails On and you know, 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:49.080 supporting role. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.080 You know, he's also in an uncanny age range When 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.320 I first saw him, I was thinking, like, okay, guy 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.720 in his forties, and then I got a different angle 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.359 on him, and I'm like, guy in his sixties. Maybe 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.199 I could can quite tell like he was alternating. And 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.359 also he looks significantly younger or older based on what 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.520 he's wearing, Like he looks like an older guy when 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.200 they put him in that skin tight, long sleeve red 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.879 T shirt where he almost looks like like he's a 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.359 member of the Enterprise crew in Wrath of Khan with 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.840 the red he's got that that Shatner look. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.000 Yeah, so I guess maybe the situation George owns the 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.000 like the manor house they're going to. Yeah, so maybe 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.080 he's like, you know, richer, older guy. And then Evelyn 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:37.080 is his newer, younger love interest, but she happens to 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.920 have this weird son, and so that's their their new 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.719 like you know, sort of perverse atomic nuclear family here. 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.640 I don't know, I guess, so, all right, so that's 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.440 that's that group. But then we have two couples. First 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.639 of all, we have Janet and Mark. Janet is played 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.280 by Karen Well born nineteen fifty four. She's she's actually 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.399 top build Italian actress, who mostly did sex comedies and 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.600 erotic films, but with some other genre work thrown in there. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.199 Her films include seventy seven's The Perfect Killer starring Lee 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.359 Van Cleef, and eighty six's Convent of Sinners That's a 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.879 Joe Demata picture. And then playing Mark is Jean Luigi 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:21.320 Choditzi dates unknown as well, active from seventy three through 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.240 nineteen eighty one, with this being his last film. His 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.840 other films includes seventy Threes than None in the Devil. 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.640 This couple is funny. When we first meet them, she's 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.280 already having premonitions of terrible things to come, and he's 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.960 just like, what will everyone think if everyone will think 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.280 you foolish if you leave this place early? But joke's 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:41.840 on him. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:46.520 Huh Yeah, And her premonition here doesn't really go anywhere. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.720 It's just kind of like there's usually somebody in a 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.760 movie like this who has a bad feeling about this. 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.439 Therefore that's Janet. 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.080 She also she gets stuck in a bear trap in 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:57.280 like a beautiful garden. 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:02.679 Yeah, a bear trap maybe for the Etruscan zombies, but 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.439 it could be a zombie trap. Yeah, all right. And 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.600 then our other couple is Leslie and James Leslie is 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:16.200 played by Antonella Antoni. Dates unknown, active from seventy six 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.680 through at least twenty twenty one or seventy six through 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:23.120 nineteen ninety, depending on which database you believe. I'm more 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.359 inclined to think seventy six through nineteen ninety. That's just 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.320 my guess, and maybe there's some sort of you know, 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.600 sometimes there's name confusion in the databases. In either case, 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.000 she'd previously been in some Italian sex comedies. Her other 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.960 horror titles include seventy nine's Play Hotel, eighty nine's Maya, 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:44.919 and eighty nine's Eyewitness and Then playing James is Simone 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:49.879 Mattiali Dates unknown. Primarily a theater actor. There's actually an 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:53.240 interview with him on the disc, but he was active 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.400 in Italian film and especially TV from nineteen sixty five 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.520 through eighty one. The way he tells that he was 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:02.480 primarily focused on theatre and especially with this film. Did 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:07.520 take it just for the money, but this was this 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:10.360 was his last credited film, so I guess they get 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.760 either the payday was amazing. Maybe he was like, you know, 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.760 maybe I'm just good with theater at this point, but 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:18.920 he has some other. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:20.840 Film he'd seen and done it all by this point. 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:25.920 It was kind of interesting to hear him talk about 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:30.960 the filming of Burial Ground, because with a piece of 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:35.320 like sort of trashy eurocinema like this, it's easy to 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.560 assume that everyone in the picture at this point is 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.119 already a season that of doing nude scenes and then 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.119 having a chunk of their fake flesh torn out of 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:46.320 their neck by a zombie. But in that interview, he 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:48.840 reflects on the production and points out that this was 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:51.840 his first nude scene and he found it very uncomfortable 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:53.840 and embarrassing to film. So I was kind of like, oh, 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:58.240 that's that's different insight than I was expecting. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:02.399 Yeah, well, especially since the main characteristic of James and 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:04.840 Leslie's characters is that they do sex. 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:07.879 Yes, yeah, that's pretty much. Yet, that's well, he's a 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.919 he's a he's a writer, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, he 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.320 brought his typewriter, and then he also does some writing outside, 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.199 just as some free handwriting as well. He can do 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:16.520 it all. 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:18.919 Yeah, writing on a notepad. 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:23.880 Yeah, imagine that people used to do it. Yeah, all right, 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:26.920 we also have a we have a few supporting characters. 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.480 There's the Professor. I think we eventually find out his 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:33.240 last name, but he's I think just credited as Professor's 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:39.720 professor Ayers, Oh, professor Ayers, Okay yeah, played by Benito Barbieri, 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:44.400 living Well born nineteen thirty six, presumably still with us, 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:48.920 seemingly has uncredited appearances in seventy six Salon Kitty and 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:53.480 eighty six is Othello, a Zephyrrelli picture. Nicholas is played 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:56.120 by Claudio zukette to Live nineteen thirty five through two 0:22:56.119 --> 0:23:00.840 thousand and five, Italian stumpman and extra often popping up 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:03.679 as a henchman. So His titles include seventy eight's The 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:08.000 Inglorious Bastard's, seventy nine Star Odyssey, eighty five's Lady Hawk, 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:11.359 nineteen nineties The Godfather Part three, and two thousand and 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:12.320 two Gangs of New York. 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:16.479 Oh okay? Is he anybody significant in Godfather three? 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:19.159 I think just like a Hinchman background care. I mean, 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:20.879 you know, he did a lot of stunt work, and 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:22.879 I think he's one of these guys that if you're 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:25.240 filming in Italy, there's a chance he'll he'll find his 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:30.520 way into the set, delivers the canol laid Eli. Yeah, 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:33.520 and then there's there's also so he's like the butler, 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:38.840 and then there's also like a house servant named Catherine 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:42.840 played by Anna Valente. Dates unknown as well. She did 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:46.200 like one other TV project the same year. Now getting 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:50.320 into the special effects, though, Gino de Rossi is back 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:53.280 in nineteen forty two through twenty twenty one. We recently 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:56.480 discussed him in our episode on City of the Living Dead. 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:03.440 Tremendous practical effects in that movie. Less I think less 0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:08.439 of a budget here and less maybe stand out special 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:11.160 effect moments. But for the most part, I think everything 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:13.400 looks pretty good here and it makes sense. He also 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:17.439 worked on Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, another zombie film Italian 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:20.119 zombie film that we've discussed, and during the course of 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:23.159 his career he worked with everyone from Joe Tomato to 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:23.879