Submitted for your approval another Fulci creation using Cinematic Unisystem! From the classic 1981 Italian horror movie classic Quella villa accanto al cimitero (better known in America as The House by the Cemetery I give you the diabolical Dr. Jacob Freudstein. All abilities for Dr. Freudstein are guessed at because they are never really explained in the movie, which is actually pretty normal for an 80s horror movie. I originally wrote this up on the Eden Studios Message Boards.
Dr. Jacob Freudstein
The House by the Cemetery French language poster
Jacob Freudstein was a doctor in the 1800s that began to experiment in means of prolonging the human lifespan. His research became an obsession. Freudstein began to indulge in increasingly bizarre and bloody experiments. The medical authorities of Boston rescinded his medical status. Driven into hiding, the Doctor retired to his home in the town of New Whitby, Massachusetts. Soon rumors began to circulate about the strange house by the cemetery. By the middle of the century Jacob Freudstein, his wife Mary, and their daughter May were dead. The house gained a reputation for strange disappearances and murders happening around the grounds. No matter who tries to sell the land or what the realtors call it, the residents call it “the Freudstein House”.
Jacob Freudstein walks today as a creature similar to a zombie. Well over 150 years old, he exists by harvesting the blood, limbs and organs of the people he kills. Limbs and organs he grafts onto himself to replace parts of himself that have rotted away. The only original body parts of the doctor that remain are his head and torso. The vocal chords have atrophied to the point where the only way Freudstein can communicate is with cries, moans, and grunts. Like most zombies and revivified beings, Freudstein is very hard to destroy.
With a steady stream of “donors”, Freudstein could exist in this undead state forever. Reports suggests that he still lives in the cellar of his house or in catacombs that exist beneath the cemetery that sits by the house. The true number of people he has killed has never been calculated, and his current activities are unknown.
It is also unknown if anyone else has used the Freudstein method of revivification.
Name: Dr Jacob Freudstein
Motivation: Live Forever by Killing People
Critter Type: Revived Zombie Doctor
Attributes: Str 8, Dex 3, Con 7, Int 5, Per 4, Will 5
Ability Scores: Muscle 22, Combat 16, Brains 14,
Life Points: 70
Drama Points: 3
Special Abilities: Appearance –6, Iron Mind, Regeneration (7 per hour), Zombie, Deranged Cruelty, Deranged Obsession (Eternal Life), Mute, Unique Kill (Must incinerate head), Weakness (Must Harvest Victims Limbs, Organs, and Fluids to Replace Aging or Damaged Parts), Haunted (His wife and Daughter, antagonistic), +5 Doctor, +4 Science.
Maneuvers
Name-Score-Damage-Type
Break Neck-22-32-Bash
Grapple-18-0-Resisted by Dodge
Choke-22-7-must grapple, possible asphyxiation
Toss-18-8-Bash, must grapple first
Big Ass Knife-16-24-slash/stab
BAK (Thrown)-15-21-slash/stab
Ax-16-40-slash/stab
Punch-16-16-bash
Wall Slap-22-24-bash, must grapple first
Throat Rip-13-32-must grapple, if damage fatal throat ripped out
When I can find my pdf copy of Ghosts of Albion (and have some free time to do it), I have an idea for making Freudstein as a malevolent ghost who can materialize to murder his victims.
Plus, Ghosts of Albion will hopefully be coming out in print soon…
