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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. And this is Joe McCormick.

Happy New Year to everyone, of course. As we enter a new year, it's out with the old and in with the new, right?

Wrong, because it's going to be out with the new and in with the old, as in the rising dead, the undead.

We're kicking off 2026 on Weird House Cinema with a

healthy dose of optimism, but with teeth gritted against the onslaught of decay. It's time to discuss

another grotesque Italian gut-munching zombie film from the 1980s. Yes, we just did one in October,

but now it's January and the dead must rise again well put uh yeah

this is going to be i think of a somewhat different flavor in the one we did in october it was actually

our halloween episode was for lucio fulchie's city of the living dead uh part of his gates of hell trilogy a weird dream

like almost free associative kind of wander through strange bits of gore and characters that don't

make a lot of sense but uh it's always a it's always a uh both gross and nice texture to be over there in Fulchieville.

Today's film, the 1981 zombie movie Burial Ground, I would say is at least as much fun, for me, at least as City of the Living Dead.

But I would say a notable downgrade in the quality of the dreamlike imagery.

It is a more ground-level film.

And in a way, you could almost say that's a virtue of it, because somehow one of its main themes is dirt.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, the film's most well-known title is Burial Ground. It is essentially dirt. The movie is essentially dirt the motion picture.

Yes, Earth. Earth, you will see it sort of like unfolding as things come up from under the turf in the gardens. The zombies have a very earthy quality to them. We'll discuss more about this later.

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