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Blue Underground (3-disc) - Region FREE - Blu-ray - TOP Arrow - Region FREE Blu-ray - BOTTOM
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(aka "Quella villa accanto al cimitero" )
directed by Lucio Fulci
Italy 1981
NOTE: The 4K UHD package is reviewed HERE
Norman Boyle (Paolo Malco, THE SCORPION WITH TWO TAILS), along with his wife Lucy (Catriona MacColl, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) and son Bob (Giovanni Frezza, A BLADE IN THE DARK), leaves New York for the sleepy New England town of New Whitby to continue the research of a colleague who murdered his mistress and then hanged himself. They have rented the creaky Oaks Mansion, with its mysterious locked basement, a tombstone in he middle of the living room floor, and a slinky babysitter (Ania Pieroni, INFERNO) who job description also includes mopping up puddles of blood and making coffee. Norman discovers his late colleague's research took a tangential turn into the life of the house's previous resident, one Dr. Jacob Tess Freudstein who was expelled from the medical community for his experiments in cell regeneration. Hmm, could this have anything to do with the tendency of visitors to the house to mysterious disappear (and die gory onscreen deaths)? Lucy's hearing noises and little Bob has a seemingly imaginary friend Mae (Silvia Collatina, MURDER ROCK) who keeps warning him that he and his parents should leave the house. Dagmar Lassander (BLACK EMANUELLE 2) is the estate agent, and CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD's Carlo de Mejo and Daniela Doria (gorily mistreated as usual for her Fulci work) also pop up again. A few years later, fellow Italian horror director Umberto Lenzi and Joe D'Amato's Filmirage crew hoofed it to New England to shoot GHOSTHOUSE in the same striking haunted house location (and utilized more of the real interiors). |
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Theatrical Release: 1 March 1984 (USA)
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Anchor Bay Entertainment (The Lucio Fulci Collection) - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Blue Underground - Region FREE - Blu-ray vs. Arrow - Region FREE - Blu-ray vs. Blue Underground (3-disc) - Region FREE - Blu-ray |
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Anchor Bay Entertainment Region 1 - NTSC |
Blue Underground Region FREE - Blu-ray |
Arrow Video Region FREE - Blu-ray |
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Runtime | 1:26:18 | 1:26:22.218 | 1:26:22.177 | 1:26:22.260 |
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2.38:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 47,159,029,171 bytesFeature: 24,130,725,888 bytes Codec: MPEG4 AVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 32.99 Mbps |
1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 30,122,402,436 bytes Feature: 15,565,080,576 bytes Codec: MPEG4 AVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 18.46 Mbps |
1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 28,886,668,709 bytesFeature: 24,638,217,600 bytesCodec: MPEG4 AVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 30.82 Mbps |
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Audio | English Dolby Digital 2.0 surround |
DTS-HD Master Audio English 2050
kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2050 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz /
1509 kbps / |
LPCM Audio English 1536 kbps 2.0 /
48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit LPCM Audio Italian 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit * Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / DN -4dB * Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / DN -4dB * Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / DN -4dB * Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / DN -4dB |
DTS-HD Master Audio English 3308
kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3308 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz /
896 kbps / 24-bit) DTS-HD Master Audio English 512 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 512 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 1.0 / 48 kHz / 320 kbps / 16-bit) DTS-HD Master Audio Italian 774 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 774 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 1.0 / 48 kHz / 320 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / DN -31dB |
Subtitles | none | English SDH, French, Spanish, none | English SDH, English, none | English SDH, French, Spanish, none |
Features |
Release Information: Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details:
Chapters 25 |
Release Information: Studio: Blue Underground
1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 47,159,029,171 bytesFeature: 24,130,725,888 bytes Codec: MPEG4 AVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 32.99 Mbps
Edition Details: Chapters 18 |
Release Information: Studio: Arrow
1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 30,122,402,436 bytes Feature: 15,565,080,576 bytes Codec: MPEG4 AVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 18.46 Mbps
Edition Details: Chapters 12 |
Release Information: Studio: Arrow
1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 28,886,668,709 bytesFeature: 24,638,217,600 bytesCodec: MPEG4 AVC Video Total Video Bitrate: 30.82 Mbps
Edition Details:
• NEW!
House Quake Interview with Co-Writer Giorgio Mariuzzo (14:46) Chapters 18 |
Comments |
NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. NOTE: The 4K UHD package is reviewed HERE ADDITION: Blue Underground 3-disc Blu-ray (January 2020): Blue Underground have released another stellar 3-disc Blu-ray/CD set (with some eye-catching lenticular cover art to boot). Much like their recent releases of "Maniac", "The New York Ripper", "Zombie (aka Zombi 2)", and "Two Evil Eyes", Blue Underground offer up the definitive presentation of Lucio Fulci's bizarre and beloved "House By The Cemetery". The excellent and exhaustive 3-disc set features a new 4K restoration from the original uncut and uncensored camera negative, fully loaded with exclusive new and archival bonus features. Upon starting the film, the benefits of the 4K transfer are immediately apparent with a much-needed improvement in nearly all key categories. The level of detail on display here is pretty much reference-quality, as long as the viewer understands that this is a pretty gory picture. There is a finer grain with the older BU Blu-ray now seeming a little too waxy in retrospect. The image is much brighter while showing a tad stronger black levels (albeit nowhere near the stunning spectrum of blacks found in BU's recent 3-disc Zombie set) . This is not a complaint given that the creepy basement sequences are still thankfully awash in mysterious (almost uniform) blacks, surely the intention of the filmmakers. The colors are certainly more vivid now, with brighter lighting showing more hues in both the cold (blue) and warm (orange/yellow) spectrums, thanks to the dramatic saturation levels. Fulci and his cinematographer, Sergio Salvati seem to embrace the overexposed background lighting in certain scenes, creating a strange glow around the characters in the foreground (see the bonus pic of the child in front of the window). I should note that the 2.35:1 framing is slightly changed from the older BU Blu-ray.
NOTE: We have added 30 more
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ADDITION:
Arrow - Region
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Blu-ray - June 2012':
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ADDITION: Blue Underground - Region
FREE -
Blu-ray - October 11': Blue Underground have given the English track a lossless 2.0 channel stereo treatment via a DTS- HD Master at a healthy 200 kbps. The DUB is a shade over-the-top at times but adds to the Giallo flavor. It sounds quite intense at times - capable depth and Walter Rizzati's score is heavy and impacting through the uncompressed mix. Blue Underground also include the Italian track (untested) - also stereo - in a standard Dolby rendering. Extras are un-ending with a slew of passionate Blue Underground produced interview featurettes including Meet the Boyles - a chat with stars Catriona MacColl and, seperately, Paolo Malco for just shy of 15-minutes. There is also Children of the Night which is an interview with stars Giovanni Frezza and Silvia Collatina for about a dozen minutes, Tales of Laura Gittleson an interview with Star Dagmar Lassander for 9-minutes, My Time With Terror talking with Star Carlo De Mejo, A Haunted House Story -more interviews - this time with Co-Writers Dardano Sacchetti and Elisa Briganti for just short of 15-minuites and To Build a Better Death Trap rapping with cinematographer Sergio Salvati, special make-up effects artist Maurizio Trani, special effects artist Gino De Rossi, and actor Giovanni De Nava for more than 20-minutes. There is also a short deleted scene (Bar Attack Aftermath), trailers, a TV spot and a poster & still gallery.
Wow - quite the gore-fest
- WOW! - but I see the appeal. I began to have a good
time with House by the Cemetery despite my
reservations on the child-usage. I can't see horror, of this ilk, being much
more impressively made. There is a lot to like here and
Blue Underground have done it again with a dynamic and
near-perfect package that we can very easily recommend!
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ON THE DVD:
First released in the
US in a painfully cropped VHS transfer by Vestron Video (the US
prints featured an abbreviated opening title sequence and a
different music cue over the sequence), HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY
saw its first widescreen DVD release through the budget bin
label Diamond Entertainment in a non-anamorphic transfer culled
from the import EC Entertainment laserdisc (this transfer is
still making the rounds on PD labels). Anchor Bay's 2001
progressive, single-layer DVD featured the first anamorphic
transfer an an effective but not overdone Dolby 2.0 Surround
track. Extras are limited to the film's international trailer,
US trailer and TV spot (featuring narration by Brother
Theodore), a stills gallery, and a deleted scene (without sound)
extension of the bat attack. EC Entertainment released an
Ultrabit transfer, but the boosted image compared poorly to the
Anchor Bay transfer. |
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