6.8 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
A professor opens a crypt and reanimates rotten zombies. The zombies attack a jet-set-group which is celebrating a party in a villa nearby.
Starring: Karin Well, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Simone Mattioli, Antonella Antinori, Roberto CaporaliHorror | 100% |
Foreign | 31% |
Video codec: HEVC / H.265
Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.66:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
English
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
4K Ultra HD
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 5.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
It probably goes without saying that you can't keep a good zombie down for long, and therefore it should come as no great surprise that the marauding "not quite dead yet" monsters from Burial Ground are back (and/or baaack, as the case may be). Severin released Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror on 1080 Blu-ray several years ago, several months after 88 Films released their own 1080 Blu-ray for the Region B market, with both of those releases actually coming out around five years after the first release of Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror on 1080 Blu-ray by Shriek Show way back in 2011. Adding to the potential sales allure of this release is not just a 4K UHD presentation, but some new supplements as well.
Note: Screenshots are sourced from the 1080 disc in this package.
Burial Ground is presented in 4K UHD courtesy of Severin Films with an HEVC / H.265 encoded 2160p transfer in 1.66:1. The back cover of
this release touts "an all new 4K scan". I haven't owned other versions of this release, but judging solely from screenshots, both the 1080 and 2160
presentations in this release from Severin show some different color temperatures than in Severin's older 1080 release, which looks a bit skewed
toward yellow to me in some of the screenshots from Svet's review. Both the 1080 and 2160 discs in this package offer an at least somewhat warmer
look, though interestingly in that regard, I found Dolby Vision / HDR to actually offer a less florid presentation of what are almost shocking reds in the
1080 release, but which in 4K UHD are a bit more on the crimson side. There are both pluses and minuses to the non-palette sides of things when
comparing the 4K and 1080 versions offered here. On the plus side, there's noticeable improvement in fine detail in elements like the burlap costumes
the zombies wear. On the minus side, the already very pronounced yellow, splotchy grain field of the 1080 version is only increased here, and not
necessarily related to things like the optically printed credits sequence (where this kind of roughness is especially noticeable against the top of the
frame where the sky is supposed to be). I think fans of this film will certainly be pleased by the overall improvements offered by Severin here, but this
is another case where some may actually prefer the 1080 presentation to the 4K UHD.
Burial Ground features DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono in either English or Italian, and there are some noticeable differences in mixes between the two languages. Listen, for example, right at the outset of the film and the kind of goofy synth music is much louder and more forward in the English language version than in the Italian version, and multiple differences like that can be heard throughout the track if you decide to ping pong between them. Both tracks show unavoidable evidence of the Italian tradition of post looping everything, and so sync can be "loose", as they say. I found the balance of the English track to be a bit preferable, and it also offers a bit more "oomph" in the midrange in particular. The high end on both languages can be a bit shrill at times. Dialogue is rendered cleanly and clearly throughout. Optional English subtitles are available.
Disc One (4K UHD)
Burial Ground is indeed "lunatic" as a pull quote on the back cover of this release states, but the cult curators at Severin have done this bizarre film's fan a service by revisiting things and offering generally solid technical merits and some very appealing supplements. I don't think Severin would be revisiting this film if there weren't a ready public eager to potentially purchase this release, and my hunch is that particular demographic will be pleased.
Le notti del terrore
1981
Le notti del terrore
1981
1980
Buio Omega
1979
1980
Rosso Sangue
1981
Paura nella cittą dei morti viventi | Standard Edition
1980
Virus / Apocalipsis Canķbal / Zombie Creeping Flesh / Night of the Zombies
1980
Un gatto nel cervello | Glow in the Dark Cover & Mini Portrait of Lucio Fulci Limited Edition to 3000
1990
Zombi 2 / Zombie Flesh Eaters
1979
Limited Edition of 3000 | Zombi 3 | Zombie Flesh Eaters 2
1988
E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilą | Glow in the Dark Cover | Limited Edition to 3000
1981
Quella villa accanto al cimitero
1981
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain
1981
Standard Edition
1985
Dčmoni 2... l'incubo ritorna | Standard Edition
1986
Limited Edition of 3000 | Zombi 4 | Oltre la morte
1989
Incubo sulla cittą contaminata
1980
1981
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie / Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti
1974
Also Includes = I Eat Your Skin and Blue Sextet
1970
Il paese del sesso selvaggio / Man From Deep River / Deep River Savages
1972