Villian(s)  Mad scientist

Actor(s):  Katherine MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza

Brief Description  The House by the Cemetery (originally titled Quella villa accanto al cimitero) is a 1981 Italian supernatural horror film directed by legendary gore maestro Lucio Fulci. It serves as the third and final installment in his famous Gates of Hell trilogy, following City of the Living Dead (1980) and The Beyond (1981). True to Fulci's signature style, the movie relies heavily on surreal, dream-like pacing, intense psychological dread, and jarring gore rather than strict narrative logic.

Plot:
The story follows Dr. Norman Boyle (Paolo Malco), an academic who moves his wife Lucy (Catriona MacColl) and their young son Bob (Giovanni Frezza) from New York City to a secluded, dilapidated mansion in New England. Norman is there to continue the research of his former mentor, Dr. Peterson, who recently went insane, murdered his mistress, and committed suicide inside the very same house. Unbeknownst to the family, the mansion—colloquially known as the "Freudstein House"—is built next to a cemetery and hides a tomb right beneath its floors. Before they even arrive, young Bob receives eerie, telepathic warnings from a mysterious girl named Mae (Silvia Collatina) telling him to stay away.

As the family settles in, a series of bizarre and increasingly violent events unfold, including an encounter with a vicious bat and the suspicious behavior of their new babysitter, Ann (Ania Pieroni). The true horror lies in the locked basement, which serves as a makeshift charnel house laboratory. The basement houses Dr. Freudstein, a century-old, monstrous mad scientist who has managed to prolong his life through a horrific method: murdering the home's occupants and visitors to harvest their fresh blood and body parts to regenerate his own decaying cells. Infamous for its graphic special effects and notoriously unusual English dubbing (particularly for the child character, Bob), it was originally banned in the UK as a "video nasty" but has since earned a revered reputation among classic 1980s horror fans.