UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

ladymidath I know this movie has mostly bad reviews, but I kind of liked it. I don't think it's meant to be a really frightening or heavy horror film, but rather lighter with a sense of humour. Five twentysomethings decide to shoplift more for fun than anything else, they get away but find themselves lost in a heavily wooded area where they see a horse drawn hearse without a driver.Seriously creeped out, they continue in their van until they become bogged and have to continue on foot.They come across the ruins of a castle and an old graveyard and oddly enough a tavern. The scarred proprietor who had followed them earlier tells them the story of a Knight Templer and a wager.This is when the story takes off, the five kids find themselves trapped in an endless catacomb where they encounter all sorts of undead creatures.This film isn't perfect, the dialogue is stilted and some of the special effects are cheesy by today's standard, but if you want a quirky fun film that isn't too taxing on the brain, this is it.

Michael_Elliott Graveyard Disturbance (1987) * 1/2 (out of 4) A rather bizarre, made-for-TV Italian film has five teenage punks shoplifting from a small store and then running off from the police. They end up staying the night in the woods when they discover a small club with a lavish treasure. In order to get the treasure they must "enter the gates" into a strange world of zombie/vampire creatures. If you're expecting gore and violence like in Bava's DEMONS then you're going to be disappointed because there's really not too much of anything here. We really don't get to any horror elements until the 45-minute mark and even then the stuff is very small, really boring and in the end really doesn't go anywhere. There is a decent twist towards the end of the movie but at the same time the ending is so bad that you really just have to sit there a few minutes after it's over with and wonder why they even bothered. The screenplay is really all over the place as its never quite sure what it wants to do and the more supernatural elements never really work because there's really no backbone to what's going on. Even the twist comes way too late and it really goes against everything that came before it and then we get cheated even more because what happens after wards goes against the twist. The performances range from bad to poor but Bava's direction does add a few nice touches. The first appearance of the zombie and how it comes to "move" is quite effective and handled very well. There are a few scenes with some atmosphere but just not enough to warrant the 96-minute running time. The zombie/vampire make up effects are decent for such a low budget film but they can't save the movie and in the end there's no real reason to watch this unless you have to see every horror film released in Italy.

Woodyanders The usually on-target Lamberto Bava, who will always have a special place in my little black heart for giving us the surreally spooky and outrageous ghoulathon "Demons," hits his profoundly putrid nadir with this hideously botched would-be horror flick parody. A quintet of wholly obnoxious and insufferable teenage gals and guys decide to spend an entire night in a musty, creepy, dirty and allegedly haunted old tomb. If these unlikable idiots survive the ordeal -- they're tediously stalked by a woefully ragged and less than frightening assortment of vampires and zombies -- they'll get their grubby paws on a valuable treasure. This completely thudding dud suffers tremendously from Bava's leaden direction, which is sadly bereft of his trademark dazzling style, pungent brooding atmosphere, and frenzied logic-be-damned breakneck pacing. Instead we've got a dreary gradual tempo, insipid and unspectacular cinematography that goes overboard on clunky, murky and unappealing fog-ridden visuals, and an embarrassingly ham-handed attempt at a jokey overripe farcical tone. Worse yet, the adolescent characters are totally detestable: they whine, scream, bicker, play dumb pranks on each other, act in a most selfish and annoying manner, and generally wear out their welcome some 10-odd minutes into the picture. The lame and tiresome dialogue is absolutely painful on the ears (sample moronic banter: "Can't you stretch your vocabulary any further that that?" "Yeah, defecation, okay?"). Bava co-wrote the poor, hopelessly witless and unfunny script with insanely prolific veteran Italian schlock movie scribe Dardano Sacchetti; they presumably slapped this piece of crud together during a single booze-sodden weekend. Actionless, laughless, and basically worthless, this incredibly bad bilge flat out stinks.

Coventry Made for cable-TV, a cheesy synopsis and director Bava who had just delivered his very weak "Demons 2" sequel...There were more than enough omens to warn me that this "Graveyard Disturbance" would be a waste of time and not worth purchasing. Yet, I'm a fan of most of the man's work and even a mediocre Italian horror film is still better than an over-hyped American one, so I gave it a look anyway. Since this is a TV-production, you can't really compare it with Lamberto Bava's more serious horror films and that also explains the lack of gore and controversy (aspects that are normally well-present in Bava-films). The story is light-headed, simple and cliché, introducing five rebel-teenagers who strand at a ghostly cemetery after a fleeing from their daily shoplifting routines. They meet a spooky looking bartender who offers them a bet they can't refuse. They're promised a pricey reward when they manage to spend the night in the eerie catacombs underneath the cemetery. The script (partly written by Lamberto Bava himself) is really weak and the dialogues are pitiful. The film is only made endurable by a few ingenious sequences (like the freak-family's dinner party inside the crypt), some atmospheric set pieces and professional make-up effects. The zombies look good and the giant eyeball scene is the only slightly suspenseful moment in the entire film. Bava also obviously attempted to insert humor and parody in his screenplay but this was far from effective (I didn't laugh, at least). I'm not even going to waste words on the acting performances as they are truly amateurish. Most cast-members are nonetheless Bava regulars who acted remarkably better in "Foto di Goia" and "Demons". Overall, Graveyard Disturbance is worth a peek in case you've already seen every other Italian horror film or when you're really bored.