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he film begins with a beautiful girl (Dora) putting her clothes back on after a rendezvous with boyfriend Steve at the town’s local 'haunted' house... the Freudstein House!
She wanders around the seemingly empty house calling his name, believing he is playing a prank she becomes annoyed. He soon appears… with his head split open and a pair of scissors stabbed into his heart!
She screams but is soon silenced by a large kitchen knife, which is plunged by an unseen killer, through the back of her head, the blade going right through her skull and out of her mouth!
Welcome to the world of Lucio Fulci where extreme, comic book violence merges with the bizarre, the kitsch and the beautiful.
Dr. Boyle (Malco) is assigned to finish the research conducted by Professor Peterson, who was researching suicide before he allegedly murdered his mistress then hung himself.
Of course fate leads him to complete the research at the Freudstein House. Upon arrival at the house Dr. Boyle’s wife Lucy (MacColl) recognizes that the house is exactly the same as a framed picture from the walls of their New York apartment. Stranger still is the tomb which is buried in the house’s hallway and the anguished childlike spectral moaning during the nights. Ageing tombstones populate the garden, the son has befriended a mysterious playmate... from another era? The sullen, beautiful nanny Ann (Pieroni) has disappeared, and the house’s atmosphere is causing Lucy to lose grip on her evidently, fragile state of mind.
Her husband seems remarkably unconcerned about his wife’s steady descent into madness. He is recognized by both the real estate agent & librarian as having visited the town before, yet claims that this is his first visit... Is he in someway involved in a bizarre complex plot to push his already teetering wife over the edge into insanity?
Or is there a deranged, demented monstrous killer living in the basement?
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Although the film undoubtedly draws influence from Mario Bava's "Shock", Stuart Rosenberg's "The Amityville Horror" and Stanley Kubrick’s "The Shining".
Fulci’s film, with its slick editing, unsettling camera angles and low budget, yet admirable effects, differentiates the film from other low budget Italian exploitation films of the early 80’s.
As with Fulci’s other films from the era, "City Of The Living Dead", "The Beyond" & "The New York Ripper" low budget horror doesn’t come better than this!
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Fulci said that he loved 'killing' actress Daniela Doria. She appeared in four of the Italian maestro films. In 'House' she has a large kitchen knife stabbed right through the back of her skull, with the blade coming straight out of her mouth. In ‘City’ she regurgitates her entire intestinal tract. In "The Black Cat" she is locked in a boathouse to suffocate slowly and in "The New York Ripper" she is bound to a bed and subjected to eye and nipple slicing from a manic with a razor blade and Donald Duck voice! 
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The shooting title for ‘House By The Cemetery’ was ‘Freudstein’. It’s Italian title was ‘Quella villa accanto al cimitero’
The film’s first public screening was 14th August 1981. It was one of the few Fulci films to actually return a profit on its initial theatrical release!
The film is also known as "House Outside The Cemetary".
Fulci makes his customary cameo as "Professor Muller", who requests that Dr. Boyle complete the project.
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Boston & Concorr, MA and New York City, NY U.S.A. were used. [Thanks to Runaway]
When you see the station wagon sitting waiting for the train signal to change, that is the crossing by the Lincoln Center (MA) stop of the commutor rail.
[Thanks to Ed Hovestadt]
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Walter Rizzati piano based score compliments the films atomspherics immensley.
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