The House by the Cemetery

1981

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

"Bob!" "Ann!"

My favorite Italian horror movie, bar none. There are more than a few technical oddities (the atmospheric music cutting out abruptly several times almost has a comical effect, for example), and the acting is uneven at best, but who cares?

No movie I've ever seen beats the overall mood of The House by the Cemetary. It is a half-pleasant, half-gross miasma, evoked by Walter Rizzati's score, by simple but effective scenery, and by numerous hyper-memorable scenes, visuals and quotes. And of course by the mantra quoted above - chanted towards eternity and the heavens: "Bob!", "Ann!" "Bob?"