Such a frustrating disappointment

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Let's get the problems out of the way first: the dubbing is clunky and oddly unconvincing; there are huge holes in the logic of events and plot points (for instance, it's entirely unlikely that a woman who dropped dead in the middle of a seance would be "buried alive" once the police were involved - there'd be certificates of death, autopsies, embalming, etc); most of the acting is no better than it needs to be (I'm looking at YOU, Christopher George) ; the director overuses some camera techniques - he zooms in with closeups of eyes so often that you'd think Jesse Franco owed him money; and an unsatisfying ending that seems unjustified by everything that came before it. But even so, Fulci seemed to catch lightning in a bottle with this one. If you just turn your mind off and let the movie roll over you, you will have (I'm not sure the term "enjoy" applies here) quite the experience. What really ties things together for me is the utter conviction on display in every frame, and the way the movie just "goes for it" without holding anything back. And the awesome soundtrack numbs the critical mind with mesmerizing washes of sound. So it's cheese, but it's GREAT cheese. If you like this sort of thing, you should check it out.

***SPOILERS****This horror started when Father Thomas,Fabrizio Jovine, for reasons only known to himself decided to call it quits by stringing himself up at the local Dunwich Cemetery after visiting hours. Thus making it possible for the dead to rise out of their graves by opening up the very gates of hell itself. It's back in NYC during a boring seance that the medium of the seance Theresa, Mary Woodhouse, sees what's to come an world wide army of walking dead Zombies and suddenly went into convulsions and dropped dead, at the tender young age of 25, of a massive heart attack! Things get even better or worse when at Theresa's burial in Long Island reporter Peter Bell, Christopher George, hears noise coming from her partly buried coffin, the gravedigger took off on their coffee brake before finishing the job, and found her to be alive!From then on it's both touch and go to what's happening in the movie with a time limit set for "All Saints Day"-November 1-when the dead are to rise again and take over the entire earth. Were also entertained with a number of grossed out episodes with flesh eating worms and maggots and brains being ripped by member of the living dead just to show those still living that they mean business. This all boils down to the late Father Thomas who's actions of killing himself is the reason all this to be happening!. And it's up to Peter Bell and those still living to right that what was wrong by Father Thomas, by exorcising his evil spirit, to prevent any more damage.****SPOILERS**** Lots of blood and gore as well as brain matter keep you watching this mindless as well as brainless movie that to add to its already mass confusion has a number of sub-plots that have to do with a group of hard drinking members of the community of Dunwiich who are among the first victims of the Zombie invasion,. That together with Dunwich resident and village idiot the over sexed Bob,Giovanni Lombardo Radice, who in trying to hide from the rampaging Zombies takes refuse in the Ross' garage. And it's there where Bob ends up getting his skull drilled through and through by Mr. Ross who thought that he was molesting his teenage daughter who In fact invited him in! Were left up in the air in what exactly happened at the end of the movie by being given the impression that the gates of hell that were shut are to open very soon with the movie disintegrating cracking up or going fade to black before we ever get to see the ending credits!

The scene early on in this film where the zombie rises from a pile of leaves amuses me to no end. Most people- before being turned undead by whatever unseen forces- are usually buried in A COFFIN a few feet down- not literally right at the surface. Of course with all the goofs and lapses in plot and continuity, this is just one example, but I thought I'd point it out since viewers have mentioned most of the others.The infamous gore scenes are too fake-looking to be truly stomach- churning. If Tom Savini had done the FX on Fulci's movies..oh man think of how that would have been. Christopher George is always a pleasure and adds some respectability to the otherwise poor acting. The worms and maggots on some of the zombies were better actors!

Okay, this is the briefest of brief reviews! I love 'Don't Torture a Duckling'; it's a great movie. I really like 'The Beyond' (for all it's negative aspects, it's a fine film). 'Zombie Flesh Eaters' is brilliant (a personal favourite). This film is not in the same league. It's a really trashy B movie with poor effects and it simply has none of the magic which makes his best movies what they are. I really wanted to like the film, but in truth it wasn't all that good. If you see it cheap to buy somewhere then perhaps pick it up for a viewing, but I can almost guarantee that you won't like it anywhere near as much as the movies mentioned above!