5 tombe per un medium / Terror Creatures from the Grave / Cemetery of the Living Dead / Five Graves for a Medium (1965) DVD5, DVD9, download for free

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5 tombe per un medium / Terror Creatures from the Grave / Cemetery of the Living Dead / Five Graves for a Medium (1965) DVD5, DVD9

by movieworld on March 24th, 2019 at 19:47

Posted In: .Other movies, Horror, Mystery

An attorney (Brandi) journeys to a small village to finalize the will of an eccentric scientist named Hauff. But once there, he discovers the man has been dead already...for nearly a year! Meanwhile, a handful of witnesses to Hauff's 'accidental' death begin to die one by one. Could Hauff's widow Cleo (Steele) or his daughter Corinne (Mitchell) have anything to do with the recent deaths? Or does the answer somehow lie in Hauff's weird experiments with reanimating the corpses of centuries-old plague victims?

The film's hero, an attorney visiting a house of secrets and madness, certainly feels like he stepped out of a Poe story, and Barbara Shelley, yet again playing another two-faced, treacherous bitch who causes not only her own downfall but also that of pretty much the entire cast, also could easily have been a Poe character, but the film never quite manages to be as creepy as a Poe story.
As it stands, "Terror Creatures from the Grave" is a decent though minor entry in the pantheon of Italian horror. Give it an afternoon viewing, but don't expect to be amazed.

Director: Massimo Pupillo (as Ralph Zucker)
Cast: Walter Brandi, Mirella Maravidi, Barbara Steele, Alfredo Rizzo
Country: Italy, USA
Genre: Horror, Mystery

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:31:11 | 3.78 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Italiano
Subtitles: English

Extras:
-- US Theatrical Trailer
-- Image Gallery of Posters, Stills & Lobby Cards
-- Preview gallery of the 1965 Italian Photo-Novel
-- The opening title sequence to the American "Terror Creatures from the Grave" and the British "Cemetery of the Living Dead"

The Italian print had 3 minutes of additional dialog after the opening title, which was kinda essential to the story and explains further why the main character went to the castle.

There are 3 additional minutes of dialog missing from the American version, which is only available in Italian language, so there are 2 different English subtitle options:
1. subs just for the missing 3 minutes on the English audio
2. subs for the entire film for the original Italian audio