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Released
1981 · FILM

The House by the Cemetery

A grieving doctor moves his family into a cursed Boston mansion to continue his colleague’s research, only to battle a malevolent force that haunts the house and threatens his son’s life.

“You may have just mortgaged your life.”

Directed by
Lucio Fulci
Written by
Elisa Briganti, Dardano Sacchetti
Runtime
87 min
Language
IT
Horror
Streaming on
  • Shudder

Synopsis

When a doctor kills his mistress and himself while investigating the enigmatic previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, assumes his research and relocates his family to the Boston mansion. Shortly afterward, Boyle's young son, Bob, begins experiencing visions of a young girl who warns him of the dangers lurking within the house.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Vincenzo TomassiShot by Sergio SalvatiScored by Walter RizzatiDesigned by Massimo Lentini

Box Office

1981 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.8M

Budget$785K
Worldwide gross$1.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das Haus an der Friedhofmauerde
  • Das Haus an der Friedhofsmauerde
  • Lucio Fulci's - Das Haus an der Friedhofmauerde
  • House by the Cemeteryen
  • The House by the Cemeteryen
  • Zombie Hell Houseen
  • Aquella casa al lado del cementerioes
  • La casa cercana al cementerioes
  • The House by the Cemeteryes
  • La Maison près du cimetièrefr
  • Quella villa accanto al cimiteroit

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