A sextet of teenagers (Erika Buenfil, Edna Bolkan, Servando Manzetti,
René Cardona III, Andrés Garcia jr, Jacqueline Castro) decide to spend a
night in an abandoned house, but since the girls are not quite as
receptive to their advances as the guys have planned, they decide, just to
get the girls into the right mood, to steal a body from the morgue, drive
it to the cemetery and, once there, perform some black magic ritual as if
to revive it ... and wouldn't you know it, this plan really works and in
no time the girls are like potty in the boys' hands (ladies out there,
does such a thing really turn you on ?).
Of course, there is one slight side-effect nobody has taken into
account: the guys revived the corpse for real, and unfortunately it was
the corpse of a Satanic killer ... and before you know it, the corpse has
followed our teenage sixpack to their abandoned house and slaughtered them
all most brutally.
In the meantime, a certain Doctor Cardan (Hugo Stiglitz), a
demonhunter, has received the permission to perform a sort of exorcism on
the corpse of a certain Devlon (José Goméz Parcero), a satanist and
murderer, and he urges the Sheriff (Raúl Meraz) to drive him to the
morgue right away ... but too late, of course it was Devlon's body that
our poor teens have stolen and revived.
In the meantime, a group of children, among them the Sheriff's son Tony
(Eduardo Capetillo, have broken into the cemetery since it's Halloween and
they want to prove their courage ... but once in the cemetery they realize
they might have taken a bigger bite than the can chew on, because by now
Devlon has called other corpses from their graves to kill the living, and
suddenly our kids find themselves on the run, and they ultimately try to
lock them into the abandoned house - which is still littered with the
teenagers' dead bodies. Soon enough though, Devlon's zombies find their
way in, and the kids only just manage to keep them off with crucifixes
from the cemetery ... but for how long ?
Thank God that eventually, Doc Cardan stops by, and tells the kids that
Devlon and his zombies can only be destroyed if a certain black magic book
that is somewhere in the house is burned. Looking for the book results in
scene above scene of zombie horror, and in the process Doc Cardan quite
naturally has to lose his life, but ultimately the kids find the book and
burn it, saving their own lives and everyone else's - if only just.
Cemetery of Terror is not a subtle film, it's a shocker that
goes straight to the jugular in more ways than one, and it features many
gore effects that are about as crude as the film's direction as a whole -
nevertheless the crudeness is a welcome change from the slickness
comparable US-stalk and slash movies from the mid-1980's which always
looked a bit too well-made to have the same shocking effect. That all
said, Cemetery of Terror is not a good film in any sense of
the word - but if you are into gore, you might just enjoy it nevertheless.
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