Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Leofwine_draca Here's a rarity - a film that manages to be both atmospheric and gory in equal measures! Originally a borderline nasty, in these enlightened days the censors have seen fit to release an uncut version of this little gem which starts off slowly before building to a tense denouement. My only complaint about the film is that a lot of action takes place at night, making things murky and hard to see. Apart from that minor flaw, it's a classic!The film follows a typical mystery format with a male detective gradually amassing clues and uncovering a conspiracy in his small town. This alone is adequate enough, but the discovery that his town is full of zombies who appear to be human ranks up there with the other small-town terrors of LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH and SALEM'S LOT. The film doesn't skimp on the gore front either, with plenty of brutal deaths - the excuse being that the witch doctor likes to repair his corpses, so has to have them disfigured in the first place! We get needles sticking straight into eyeballs, acid dissolving faces, people burning alive and much, much more. The show-stopping opening mixes in violence, nudity, romance and terror in equal abundance and is a sure-fire way of hooking the viewer! Okay, so the acting isn't Oscar-calibre, but I thought it was at least adequate. James Farentino is slightly wooden as the slow-witted hero, yet in the final third he shows his true colours. A few familiar faces pad out the rest of the cast, including Melody Anderson (THE IMMORTALIZER) and a turn from a young Robert Englund - just three years before he would don Freddy Krueger's razor-blade gloves. Jack Albertson is also very good as the creepy mortician.For the most part, this is a slow-moving shocker with a number of scary images - the crowd of zombies silhouetted in a light, shuffling along slowly but surely even beats similar images from Romero's trilogy. But in the final twenty minutes when the final realisation dawns on our intrepid sheriff, things really hot up, and the film becomes brilliant. There's even one of those twist endings that I adore. DEAD & BURIED is unfortunately mostly forgotten, but once viewed remains etched in the brain of those who have watched - it's that memorable. Nicely suspenseful, this is a perfect little B-movie and deserves tracking down!

Anonymous Andy (Minus_The_Beer) It can be tough living in a small town. The people are nosy and invasive. The faces seem at times too familiar. People you thought you were gone keep popping back into your life. Welcome to Potter's Bluff, a small sea-side village where they take the slogan "A New Way Of Life" just a little too seriously.In "Dead & Buried," the sheriff of a small town investigates a series of grisly murders that take him further and further down the rabbit hole. It seems some folks from out of town are taking too kindly to the area and, well, over-staying their welcome -- much like the townies that populate Potter's Bluff. It's a bizarre mystery flick with a whiff of the undead and a feel all-too similar to that of a classic "Twilight Zone" episode.Director Gary Sherman ("Death Line", "Poltergeist III") makes ample use of the small town setting to create a claustrophobic film that slowly tightens its grip around the viewer's neck. He is aided by some remarkable make-up and special effects, courtesy of none other than Stan Winston. Sure, some of it may look primitive by today's standards, but you can see Winston and company honing their craft, paving the way for the iconic work done in later films like "The Terminator" and "Aliens." The story, as crafted by "Alien" scribes Ron Shusett and Dan O'Bannon is, likewise, a cut above the average genre fare of the era. Smart and innovative, the film is only ever hampered by some thin characters and a few stiff performances. But then again, given the subject matter, maybe that's appropriate.While the film didn't quite catch on with audiences in its time, it's definitely worth the cult-classic status it seems to be inching towards with each passing year. Its high concepts and equally tight execution make it the sort of film that will still creep under your skin. "Dead & Buried" deserves to be unearthed by genre fans (especially those who love late '70s/early '80s fare). Truly ahead of its time, it's worth digging up by any means necessary.

gavin6942 A suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders committed by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life.Officially, the script was written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett; O'Bannon later disowned the film, claiming that Shusett had written the script by himself but needed O'Bannon's name on the project to promote it being from the creators of "Alien". (Shusett and O'Bannon co-wrote "Alien", but the latter was the bigger name. Even today, Shusett is not well known, despite producing such science fiction hits as "Total Recall" and "Minority Report").The most noted horror name here is Robert Englund, who appears as Harry. At this point Englund had appeared in "Eaten Alive" but not yet "Nightmare on Elm Street", so he is given relatively little screen time and few lines to speak. In retrospect, I am sure the creators wish they had featured him more. But stealing the show was Jack Albertson, who portrayed William G. Dobbs as no one else could (as then passed away the same year). Although the film has a solid plot and good gore, the Dobbs character is what makes this a cut above the average film.Definitely a film that should be seen by those who have not yet had the pleasure...

PeterMitchell-506-564364 An original horror movie, with more story than horror. This one really works, it's story about a mob of townspeople, anti touriste, you could say. Visitors come, but never leave, like an unlucky photographer, taking snapshots of a blonde haired beauty in a red blouse, smiling and posing, invitingly, where the next instant he's set on fire, the body never recovered at the scene. Why? Because he's been brought back to life by masterful mortician, with some outside help I presume. There's little gore in this one, but it's the story that holds your attention. James Farentino is the town cop, of the wintery seaside location, a perfectly chosen place which is called Potters Bluff. Some of the crazies involved in this illegal activities are nurses, doctors, etc. Jack Albertson (Chiko And The Man) turned in such a commendable and worthy performance, where we see the real madness of his character in it's not so pretty end, where Farentino finds himself, in too deep on this one. I like Melody Anderson as Farantino's wife, a teacher and much more too, where she involves her class of kiddies in a lesson of witchcraft. Dead And Buried (love it's poster) is genuinely a chilling piece of cinema, due to it's disturbing story which was how I first judged it when seeing back in 86. It leads you to think if something like this could really happen too, if judging by the procedures shown in this movie, but really. One line has Farentino questioning a guy who answers "Yes", when Farentino asks him, "Is there any way to reanimate someone after they have died". In today's world of technology, maybe that is not so much of a stupid answer.