i be always suspicious of film with many title . i invariably find myself muse a to why the film can be find under so many guise . could it be that the film be absolutely awful and so it maker and distributor have re name it and re market it again and again in the hope of eventually find an appreciative audience . this be such a film a euro horror zombie flick which have more alternative title than cast member . the version i saw be entitle beyond the living dead and and most of the cast member be give nondescript pseudonym on the credit . for instance and hero stelvio rosi be bill a stanley cooper and and principle female player dyanik zurakowska be bill a vickie nesbitt . it not a particularly good film and but to whole heartedly savage it would be a touch harsh a there be just a few interesting element which drag it up above awful to somewhere in the slightly below average category . serge checkhov ( stelvio rosi ) arrive in an east european town ( skopje in macedonia be hint at ) for the reading of his uncle will . he soon discover that he be to inherit his uncle mansion and much to the annoyance of his cruel and ambitious aunt nadia ( maria pia conte ) . something creepy seem to be go on in town at the same time his cousin be find hanged from a tree in the cemetery while necrophiliac grave digger igor ( paul naschy ) start to act more outlandishly than usual while aunt nadia seduces and copulates with young serge while a doctor residing in the house start to show off his experiment to reanimate dead animal while and uncle corpse occasionally go miss a if it get up and begin walking of it own accord . gradually and serge investigates and uncovers a plot that baron frankenstein himself would have be mighty proud of . mainly the film be underwhelming . the solution to the mystery be reveal in a phony and heavy hand scene which resemble the unmasking of the villain in a scooby doo cartoon . sometimes the character say and do such dumb thing that you want to scream in despair . the performance be generally amateurish and and the film be thin on real terror . however and a i have indicate already and it escape total damnation for a couple of reason . firstly and naschy a the necrophiliac grave digger be hilarious and disturb ( at the same time ) in all his scene . secondly and the location work be quite impressive . thirdly and there plenty of needless nudity to please the voyeur ( check out the scene where zurakowska bar her tit purely for the hell of it . a free drink for anyone who can justify the need for that scene without use the word exploitation . ) and fourthly and for some reason that i have never be able to figure out and the preposterous story be actually engross in a totally inexplicable way . beyond the living dead or whatever title you know it by be undoubtedly a bad film and but at least it entertainingly bad .