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[[File:BurialGround_6475.jpg|frame|[[Ed Wood (Creatorcreator)|Ed Wood]], eat your heart out.]]
 
 
{{quote|''The earth shall tremble....''<br />
''graves shall open....''<br />
''they shall come among the living''<br />
''as messengers of death and there shall be''<br />
''the [[Rouge Angles of Satin|nigths of terror]]....''|'''"Profecy of the Black Spider"'''}}
 
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The movie begins with the good Professor Ayres making an unspoken but profound discovery during the study of an [[Sacred Language|Etruscan]] [[Ancient Tomb|cave]], which prompts him to hack away at the cave wall with a pickaxe. Then some zombies show up out of nowhere. [[The Quisling|He tells them that he's their friend]], but it doesn't work: they tear him apart and eat his flesh.
 
Meanwhile, three young couples arrive at the Professor's country mansion, one of which has a [[Dawson Casting|child named Michael]] (played by the legendary Peter Bark). After a night of softcore sex, the couples wander around the grounds, taking photographs, and [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?|wondering where Professor Ayres has gone]]. Inside the house, light bulbs start exploding for no reason at all except to shock the servants. Zombies then start rising from some very shallow graves and attack. The characters barricade themselves inside the mansion, but to no avail--the zombies locate the tool shed, and eventually break through the doors with a battering ram. [[Parental Incest|Oh, and also, Michael tries to seduce his mother.]]
 
[[Non-Indicative Name|Despite the title,]] the entire movie takes place over a single night.
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* [[Eye Scream]]: The very slow eye gouge is a staple of the Italian zombie flick. One zombie smashes through a second-story window, grabs one of the women by the hair, and slowly pulls her eye into a shard of glass. [[Special Effects Failure|Then the camera cuts, and the shard of glass is jammed into the side of her head.]] After this, it cuts to the zombie, who stiffly falls backwards from the window sill. End scene.
* [[It Can Think]]: The zombies are capable of tool use, dressing up in disguises, and throwing spikes with amazing precision.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: Michael points to some cans of paint and says "Mama, set it on fire!" The plan works. It's just too bad they forget about it by the next scene.
* [[The Load]]: The girl who manages to step in the bear trap does little more than scream, limp, and get carried around. Yes, the bear trap in the garden.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: Besides the title of the movie, there's the ending quote, written at the top of this page, that appears on the screen just before the end titles. Who is the Black Spider? What is its "profecy"? Does this have anything to do with the zombies? The audience may never know.
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