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[[File:BurialGround_6475.jpg|frame|[[Ed Wood (
{{quote|''The earth shall tremble....''
''graves shall open....''
''they shall come among the living''
''as messengers of death and there shall be''
''the [[Rouge Angles of Satin|nigths of terror]]....''|'''"Profecy of the Black Spider"'''}}
''Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror'' (1981) is an [[So Bad
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
[[Non
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* [[Ancient Tomb]]: Professor Aryes begins the movie by chipping away at the wall in one of these. It doesn't go well for him.
* [[Bear Trap]]: There's one in the garden. For some reason.
* [[Boob Bite]]: When Peter Bark becomes a zombie, he doesn't mess around.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: At one point, a character declares that shooting the zombies in the head is the only way to kill them, although how he came upon this information is not explained. He shoots a few with a shotgun, says they only have two shells left, and the shotgun and tactic are both quickly forgotten.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Michael is most certainly one of these. He would be even if he wasn't played by Peter Bark.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Peter Bark as Michael is a weird example of this trope. Michael is meant to be a child, probably around ten years old. Peter Bark was about 25 years old when this movie was shot (according to [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0054760/ his page at IMDb]). This is sometimes exaggerated; Wikipedia reports him as having been [
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The film's UK title is ''The Zombie Dead''.
* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: "Mother, this cloth...it smells of death!"
* [[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
* [[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
* [[Not Using the Z Word]]: Played straight, until the zombie Peter Bark shows up.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: These are a bit of a mashup. They presumably rose as the result of a curse, because the Professor was making too much racket, or possibly because the plot required them to. They also eat the flesh of the living. Zombification usually spreads after someone is bitten by a zombie, although having shards of glass jammed into one's face seems to do the trick, too. Oh, and the zombies can use tools, and know how to put on disguises. A shot to the head, fire, and in one case, ''strangulation'', will kill them, depending on the scene.
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