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The House by the Cemetery is the final installment in Italian director Lucio Fulci’s unofficial “Gates of Hell” trilogy, following City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery. Released between 1980 and 1981, the three plots are unrelated, but they explore similar themes and share a leading lady in Catriona MacColl, who takes on a different part in each film. It’s generally agreed upon that they rank alongside Zombie as Fucli’s strongest efforts.

The House by the Cemetery’s script - penned by Fulci and his The Beyond co-writers Dardano Sacchetti and Giorgio Mariuzzo, based on story by Elisa Briganti (Zombie) - follows Norman Boyle (Paolo Malco, The New York Ripper) and his wife, Lucy (MacColl), and young son, Bob (Giovanni Frezza, Manhattan Baby), from New York City to the Boston suburb of New Whitby. They move in to the infamous Freudstein House to continue the research of Norman’s former colleague, who murdered his mistress before committing suicide.

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