(Note: Since not all visitors to "My Monster Memories" are aware of another, earlier blog i did called "Sweet Skulls," I will occasionally be importing some of the more suitable entries into this one. If you have read this already on "Sweet Skulls," I apologize, but if you haven't, you might enjoy it here!)
The poster for 1981's "Burial Ground" is a classic bit of zombie movie artwork where once again the promotional effort is better than the movie... in this case, a whole lot better. That is one cool poster!
"Wa-wa-wait! I'll shave it off if you don't like it!"
"WHAT is that I'm feeling in my underwear?"
"Mother, may I have some warm milk before going to bed?"
Michael, a strange man-child, has a thing for his mother, which is understandable; lots of young boys have lusted after their hottie mothers. But she encourages it; when he shows up in the room where she and her boyfriend are giving the bedsprings a workout, she leaps up out of the bed naked, sauntering across the room to grab a sheet and halfway drape herself with it. When all she had to do was cover up a little more while in bed! Yep, the stunted kid is messed up physically, but his emotional problems stem from her unwillingness to let him grow up. Her own neediness and insecurity cause him to be confused about his budding sexuality.
Or, he could just be a horny midget with a slutty mother.
"Oh, man, a maggot just crawled in my mouth! Yuuuk!"
The "make-up" of the zombies seems to be composed of slathered-on plaster, into which assorted teeth, hair, eyeballs and live worms are implanted. Then as the "actor" goes through his paces, the dried mud-like layers crack, to reveal red stuff below. Although the effect could work to portray dried-up corpses to good effect, the overdone, hand-molded result hardly resembles human skeletal anatomy at all. Blackened noses poke through the caked mud and blackened lips show plainly behind "teeth," all too obvious in the lingering close-ups. Other zombies are fresh-faced youth with only a little make-up, though, belying the idea that they have all been dead for centuries. However, the makeup is certainly better then the oatmeal-wearing things in "Nightmare City," which seems to indicate that they all died while eating breakfast and keeled over face first into their bowl of Quaker Oats.
His mother warned him that sunbathing without enough tanning lotion would make his skin peel.
Somehow I don't think this fellow looked much better when he was alive.
"Miss! Can you get me out of this mudpack? It's drying out and hurting my skin."
These Etruscans really knew the secret to fertilizing their flowers!
Refreshed from his little dirt nap in a planter, this zombie has an appetite for mayhem.
"Should we get in the car and drive away?"
"No, they'll be expecting us to do that!"
"What... is there something on my face?"
"By the power of the pitchfork, I command you!"
"Oh, no, you did not just pull a rake on me!"
"Aw, come on, you're making it so easy it's not even fun any more!"
Considering the amount of live worms these guys carry around, they'd be very handy to take fishing.
One death that will have you chuckling rather than upchucking is when a maid sticks her head out of a window. One of the zombies below nails her hand to the window sill with a thrown spike, while another slowly reaches up with a scythe. Putting it above her head behind her neck, he very slo-o-o-wly brings it down and severs her head as smoothly and easily as if her neck were made of warm liverwurst. Yes, super-strong and intelligent. The people never had a chance.
This fan completely lost her head over Episode 3: "The Revenge of the Scythe."
"Is this bugging you? Is this bugging you?"
Whoever this mysterious "Black Spider" is, I wouldn't trust the prophetic writings of someone so bad at spelling.
Here's a good review of the film from someone better at that sort of thing that I am... AllThings Zombie.
"Did they just call for lunch? I can't hear a thing through all this junk!"
I'm not convinced this kid ever actually became a zombie. He was just acting normally.
Who these hooded guys are in the church next door is never explained. Sheesh, this late in the movie and you want explanations? They're just zombies, okay?
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