Dead And Buried
1981
From the writers of ALIEN, this thriller is the story of a mysterious coastal town called Potters Bluff. For years the town has harbored a dark secret, one that the town sheriff has just stumbled across. It seems that a number of strangers who have crossed through Potters Bluff have not only been brutally murdered, but have .. Read more
| Starring | James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Robert Englund |
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| Director | Gary A. Sherman |
| Genres | Horror |
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Dead And Buried
From the writers of ALIEN, this thriller is the story of a mysterious coastal town called Potters Bluff. For years the town has harbored a dark secret, one that the town sheriff has just stumbled across. It seems that a number of strangers who have crossed through Potters Bluff have not only been brutally murdered, but have turned up in town as locals after being killed. Sure that there must be some explanation, the sheriff and the town mortician try to uncover the mystery and find something more shocking than they could have imagined.
| Starring | James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Robert Englund |
|---|---|
| Director | Gary A. Sherman |
| Studio | ANCHOR BAY HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 33 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 26 Jul 2004 Production year: 1981 |
| Format | DVD |
Dead And Buried (1981)
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Disappointing collaboration between the director of British cult horror movie Death Line Gary Sherman and Alien writers Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. In his final film role Jack Albertson plays a mad mortician who revives the dead in a sleepy New England town, and then murders people to supply him with fresh corpses. James Farentino is the perplexed local sheriff. Uneven but pleasingly gory with standout make-up effects from Stan Winston (the zombies keep having to return to Albertson for weekly touch-ups). Winston later did pioneering work on Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park. Also look closely for Robert Englund of Freddy Kruger fame as one of the zombies. This film became one of many caught up in the UK's video nasties controversy of the eighties and was denied a certificate for almost ten years.
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Establishing shots of a bleak, colourless Atlantic seaboard fishing town, and the presence of Alien scriptwriter Dan... read more on Time Out
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Classic Video Nasty
In the small coastal town of Potters Bluff, the locals had a strange way of treating visitors. This involves killing them in an unpleasant way, nice. Apparently the director meant this to be a black comedy, personally I can not see how myself. Besides being dated, as most early 80's horror films are, this has so much to offer, and it was on the original video nasties list too.
Who cares if the plot resembles The Stepford Wives, it's atmospheric, gory, creepy and well worth the rental. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Not bad in a Hitchc@ck, Poe kinda way. Not a gore-fest, but there are some good creepy moments. I certainly won't be passing through small towns anymore unless I have plenty of petrol!
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Dead And Buried
From the writers of ALIEN, this thriller is the story of a mysterious coastal town called Potters Bluff. For years the town has harbored a dark secret, one that the town sheriff has just stumbled across. It seems that a number of strangers who have crossed through Potters Bluff have not only been ...
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