Dead & Buried
| Dead & Buried | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Directed by | Gary Sherman |
| Produced by |
|
| Screenplay by |
|
| Story by |
|
| Starring |
James Farentino Melody Anderson Jack Albertson Dennis Redfield Nancy Locke Robert Englund |
| Music by | Joe Renzetti |
| Cinematography | Steven Poster |
| Edited by | Alan Balsam |
| Distributed by | AVCO Embassy Pictures |
|
Release date
|
|
|
Running time
|
92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $216,166 |
Dead & Buried is a 1981 science fiction horror film directed by Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, and James Farentino. The film focuses on a small town wherein a few tourists are murdered, but their corpses begin to reanimate. With a screenplay written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the movie was initially banned as a "video nasty" in the UK in the early 1980s, but was later acquitted of obscenity charges and removed from the Director of Public Prosecutions' list.
While the film made less money at the box office, it has received praise from critics regarding Stan Winston's special effects and Albertson's role. In addition to the film being subsequently novelized by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, the film has obtained a cult following in the years since its release.
James Farentino stars as Dan Gillis, sheriff of the small New England coastal town of Potter's Bluff. In the film's opening scene, a mob of townspeople attempt to kill a visiting photographer. He is beaten, tied to a post then set on fire. He survives and is taken to a hospital, where he is murdered just out of sight of the sheriff and the doctor.
More visitors are murdered by the townspeople. Sheriff Gillis, assisted by Dobbs, the local coroner-mortician (Jack Albertson), works hard to discover the motive for the killings. Gillis becomes increasingly disconcerted as a grisly death occurs every day. In each case, the killers photograph the victims as they are murdered.
Gillis accidentally hits someone with his squad car following an attack. On the grill of his car, Gillis finds the twitching severed arm of the accident victim, who attacks him and flees with the arm. After the attack, Gillis scrapes some flesh from the vehicle and takes it to the local doctor, who tells him that the tissue sample has been dead approximately four months. Gillis grows suspicious of Dobbs and conducts a background check. He discovers that Dobbs was formerly the chief pathologist in Providence, Rhode Island, until he was dismissed 10 years before for conducting unauthorized autopsies in the county morgue.
...
Wikipedia