Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Absolutely the worst movie.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Being a Barbara Steele AND Italian Gothic horror fanatic, "Terror-Creatures from the Grave" has been standing on my must-see list for many years, and I also owned a bootleg copy on DVD, but it was literally unwatchable with picture quality as poor and diseased as the plague carriers the film revolves on. Now that I've finally watched a restored version, I still can't say I'm wildly enthusiast about the film even though it features everything that I usually seek for in horror cinema. Perhaps it's because I saw so many other Gothic horrors in between the time I first purchased and eventually watched "Terror Creatures from the Grave" or perhaps it's simply because the story never truly shifts into gear despite all its potential strong points. During the opening credits, and even proudly on the DVD-cover already, the movie claims to be inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Well, that's easy marketing! The script isn't an adaptation of one of his stories, but because Poe wrote about the Black Plague (undoubtedly the source is "The Masque of the Red Death") he gets mentioned as an inspiration and a much wider audience is attracted! Besides, who needs extra marketing when you've got the one and only Barbara Steele - at the peak of her popularity - starring in a bathtub sequence? The plot is chock-full of macabre elements and the atmosphere leaves plenty of space for ominous tension and supernatural strangeness that unfortunately never comes to the surface. Handsome young attorney Albert Kovac gets summoned to the estate of Professor Hauff for arranging his last will and testament, but upon his arrival Albert finds out that the good Prof has been dead for nearly a year. His beautiful second wife Cleo is skeptical and wary of Albert presence, but her equally attractive stepdaughter Corinne is delighted and even hopes for Albert to help solving the mystery surrounding her father's death. Albert finds out that the family mansion got built up from the remnants of an institution where 16th century plague carriers used to be locked away (that's just asking for trouble) and the Professor found a method to resurrect them from the death. With the first anniversary of the Professor's death approaching, several people who were close to him are dying in mysterious and gruesome ways. "Terror Creatures from the Grave" easily could have been a modest genre classic, what with its uncanny references towards the Black Plague and multiple eerie make-up effects, but the pacing is dreadfully slow and the script is far too talkative. Massimo Pupillo really should have studied the films of Mario Bava a little more carefully, and then he would have known that Italian Gothic horror primarily thrives on atmosphere, cinematography and better use of set pieces rather than on drivel. Mrs. Steele seems a lot less interested in her role here than, say, "Black Sunday" or "Castle of Blood", but even with a mediocre performance she still depicts an impressive wicked stepmother character.

If it wasn't for the presence of Barbara Steele (perhaps the most famous female horror film star), this film would have absolutely no interest. It is extremely poorly filmed and moves at an absolute snail's pace until the last ten minutes. There's the typical amount of gruesome deaths but few frights, and it even lacks unintentional laughs to make it a cult film. There could have been a slightly interesting story of a curse which came out of the revenge of murder victims from the black plague who, vindictive over having the disease in the first place, presumably made sure other people caught the disease as well. Two sisters survive the doctor who couldn't treat them and utilized his basement as a mass grave for them. An arriving attorney reveals that he was just hired by their father (who died a year ago) to write his will which gives the hints that a ghost story is about to unfold. But there's also a plot twist surrounding his death from a year ago, and when all is revealed in the last reel, that's when the only interesting situations occur and a few chills may creep into your bones. Otherwise, the story of the black death might simply lead you into a deep sleep.

Medieval plague victims return from the dead to terrorise a group of people who were enemies of a dead man with expertise in the occult.This is another in the cycle of Italian Gothic horror films that were especially popular in the 60's. It stars the queen of Italian horror from this period, Barbara Steele. She was hardly a scream queen however. She was rarely the one doing the screaming, she was usually the aggressor. In this movie she again is no victim and like always she provides some real class to proceedings. The story itself is fairly standard stuff, with nothing out of the ordinary. It's really pretty decent stuff though if you have an appreciation for horror films with a Gothic atmosphere. There are plenty of well used locations and the mood is effective enough. I enjoyed it and recommend it to fans of Italian Gothic.

Having been in a kind of Barbara Steele mood, i decided to throw in the version i have had collecting dust on my video shelf for some time now. Deciding to compare my version to other information that might be listed about this films, i was saddened to find out that the ALPHA VIDEO version listed it's version as a mere 61 minutes, informing me that there was some 24 minutes missing from this release. Saddened i shall now search out the full film and do hope it is a lot better than this well worked over copy i have now. This film deserves to be remastered in a official version that contains everything cut as do all movies being released on to any personal format. ...... Happy Viewing.