Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This film immediately differs itself from the usual Gothic horror films by having a terrified man run away from a strange creature and get his head smashed to bits by a startled horse. Thus starts Terror Creatures From the Grave, a film that wouldn't be out of place being produced about fifteen years later.A lawyer is sent a letter from a client but the lawyer is out of town. His assistant opens the letter and finds a demand from a client called Doctor Hauff that the lawyer better high tail it over to his creepy mansion as soon as possible or else. With the lawyer out of town, his assistant decides to go instead.The lawyer heads to the mansion only to find Doctor Hauff's daughter, a freaked out maid, and the Hauff's wife (Barbara Steele, in full Bitch mode) who states that it would be a bit weird for her husband to send a letter out seeing he died after taking a drunken spill down a flight of steps almost a year ago. The lawyer is all like 'whatever' until he finds he can't leave as an owl has become trapped in the engine of his car (What?).Things aren't what they seem as the mansion has mute servant Luciano Pagozzi lurking about pulling faces, and there's a phonograph recording by Dr Hauff detailing how he's managed to contact the spirits of plague bearer who were infecting people on purpose with the plague (which explains all the mummified hands on display in the mansion's main hall).Also unnerving is the unexplained deaths of the witnesses who were there on the night Dr Hauff died, but did he die? And why are the plague-bearers coming back to life? And why aren't the villagers remotely surprised by any of this? This is probably the earliest example of the pure Italian horror that we would be receiving in the eighties courtesy of Lucio Fulci and Umberto Lenzi. We have an almost non-sensical supernatural storyline that some character attempt to unravel which is really an excuse for some gory deaths. Eyeballs hang from eyesockets, guts protrude from stomachs, buboes burst and drip - in 1965! There are scenes from here that turn up in The Beyond (acid burning a corpse's face) and The Evil Dead (a character listening to a recording of someone contacting demons). It would be easy to say this was an influence on those films, but who knows really? Probably the creepiest, most violent Gothic Horror I've laid eyes on, Terror Creatures is a good starting point for anyone interested in this particular period in Italian Horror. Do note however that possibly the only version out there is blurry, glitch, and with bad sound. Also note however that this is the kind of Italian film where a mere TWO of the cast are left alive at the end.HOWEVER: There is a restored version on YouTube that I watched some of. It has an extended scene at the start with the lawyer receiving the letter, an extended, and creepier, journey to the mansion, an actual shot of the dead owl in the guy's engine (what?), omits the horse killing at the start. I'd like to see a remastered DVD that keeps the best elements of both versions. Thanks. ETC.I forgot about the pure water song! It goes - Pure Wa-

When an attorney arrives at a very old manor home of the recently deceased owner, he learns the history of the place: The deceased owner was someone who could summon ancient souls from their graves - they were victims of the plague. The attorney stays to learn more and the occupants of the home will die one by one in a gruesome manner.Barbara Steele is good in the film. The film is worth watching if you like the "spooky old manor home" type of films, Gothic movies and zombies and/or vampires. It's not the best "spooky old manor home" film but it's not the worst - it's a fairly good and entertaining film.This movie would be good to make into a double feature with Nightmare Castle (1965) starring Barbra Steele or even The Old Dark House (1932) with Boris Karloff.7/10

When an attorney arrives to do business with the owner of an estate, he learns that the man is dead. However, he's been dead a year and the letter was only sent recently! The signature and seal appear real...how could this be? Instead of just going back home (like any normal person), the attorney hangs about for some time--and people begin to die. Could this dead man who was apparently obsessed with contacting the souls of dead plague victims be reaching from beyond the grave for revenge? Well, considering the film stars Barbara Steel, who made a career out of Italian horror films, you can probably assume the worst.Although I like horror movies, I sure found my attention waning throughout the film. Much of it was because the script was pretty dull and convoluted and much of it was the cheapness of the production. Either way, Steele fanatics might be the only ones who really like this one.

*Spoiler/plot- 1965, (5 tombe per un medium), The occupants of a modern day castle begin to die in gruesome violent ways after an attorney arrives to settle the estate of its recently deceased castle owner.*Special Stars- Barbara Steele as lead.*Theme- History can influence today's people and their destiny.*Based on- Medieval Black Plague legends and superstitious folk tales.*Trivia/location/goofs- Italian horror film starring with the most famous leading lady of Gothic horror.*Emotion- A somewhat confusing film trying to follow the massive flashback scenes for the exposition of the castle owners family histories A plot.