The House by the Cemetery (1981) on Netflix
Norman Boyle moves his wife Lucy and son Bob into the house outside Boston that his colleague owned. Only Bob sees Mae Freudstein, who warns him to stay away.
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Plot summary
Dr. Peterson killed his mistress and then himself, and his colleague Norman Boyle takes over his research. Norman, his wife Lucy and their son Bob move into Peterson's house in New Whitby, Massachusetts, where they are to stay six months while he researches old houses. In a photograph of the house Bob sees a girl. Waiting in the car while his parents collect the house keys, he meets her: Mae Freudstein, who tells him to stay away and whom only he can see.
Cast
- Gianpaolo Saccarolaas Daniel Douglas
- Kenneth A. Olsenas Harold (as John Olson)
- Elmer Johnssonas Cemetery Caretaker
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The House by the Cemetery (1981)
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- Italy's ratings board asked for a six-second cut to the scene where Dagmar Lassander's character Laura Gittleson is murdered, and director Lucio Fulci complied only because he was unhappy with how the effects in certain shots looked.
- The 84-minute British cut of Lucio Fulci's film ended up on the UK's video nasties list after the Video Recordings Act 1984; a 1988 home video re-release removed another four minutes and eleven seconds.
- Screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti said the film drew on his own childhood: he was raised in a large country house with a big dark basement, and at age 9 he had to cross a cemetery at night.
- In his biography, director Lucio Fulci spoke negatively about Dardano Sacchetti's screenwriting, saying The House by the Cemetery was derivative of the film The House That Screamed.
- The credits for The House by the Cemetery list Giannetto di Rossi and Maurizio Trani for the special make-up effects, but only Maurizio Trani actually worked on the film.
