sentences:  This drama film is characterized by its reduced narrative, and photographies of the volcano in the Cape Verde islands.The title literally means "a house of lava".The film has been described by some reviewers as Costa's remake of Jacques Tourneur's 1943 film, "I Walked with a Zombie", and Costa himself has suggested that his original intention for "Down to Earth" was for it to be a remake of Tourneur's film.