Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

snicewanger I Bury The Living is a very entertaining little "B" chiller that benefits from a strong performance by the always reliable Richard Boone and it was Boone's only foray into the horror genre.Louis Garfinkle wrote and produced the film, and Directed by Albert Band. Frederick Gately was the cinematographer. Clocking in at 77 minutes it moves at along at a quick pace. If there is a weak spot in the movie it's Austrian actor Theodore Bikels attempt to play the the Scottish cemetery caretaker Andy McKee. With his heavy makeup causing him to look like Captain Kangaroo, he struggles with a Scottish burr in his voice that brings unintentional chuckles to the proceedings. The story concerns Robert Kraft played by Boone who has been appointed the manager of Immortal Hills Cemetery. Kraft comes to believe he has been cursed with the power of live and death over the cemetery plot owners when several of them die after the white pins signifying unoccupied graves are replaced with black pins signifying occupied graves on the cemetery plot map. Boone essays Krafts dissent into an emotional quagmire with a calm but inevitable resolve. The horror takes place in Krafts mind.If you are a blood and gore fan, forget it. This one is a a physiological scare for the imagination.

Andy McGregor A local businessman is obliged to become a cemetery's director and subsequently discovers that by prematurely pinning a map for reserved graves, the new proprietors soon mysteriously wind up dead somehow. At first his claims are not believed but presently he is tested by various interested parties. Eventually, the guilt gets to him and he comes close to a complete nervous breakdown. However, it ends with finding out he was not responsible for the deaths and that his caretaker was behind it all along. There are some misleading aspects to this film, such as the title implies people are being buried alive. This, sadly, is not the case! Also, even though the overall body-count is significant you only see one man having a heart attack, all the other victims are off-screen. This is counter-productive to the movie's final twist, as it it proves the caretaker could not be blamed for all of the deaths. The ending is therefore confusing and appears nonsensical.This movie is slow-paced and takes what feels like an age to reveal anything relevant. Seeing the same shot of the map, repeated over and over, only emphasises how monotonous the pacing actually is. Despite all it's problems, this movie still manages a modicum of entertainment. As others have observed, it feels like an extended episode of classic 'Twilight Zone', and would have possibly fared better in this shorter format. Richard Boone's performance, although not award winning, still convinces as his paranoia grows. And we are rewarded with an interesting visual segment, where psychedelic imagery is employed to project Boone's hysterical hallucinations.'I Bury the Living' is not a classic horror - or a horror or a classic, for that matter! What it is a clunky yet amusing title, written in a very 'Amazing Tales' sort of way that would appeal to fans of these kind of old mysteries.

calvinnme ... that protagonist being Richard Boone of "Have Gun Will Travel" fame as the member of a prominent small-town family. Years ago, before WalMart and Best Buy, each town would have a department store, usually owned by local people. Such a department store is the source of the Kraft family wealth, and since the source of their wealth is local, it matters to the Krafts how they are perceived in the community. Thus a town committee of seven local wealthy people, including members of the Kraft family, take turns doing public service. One of these public services is managing the local cemetery. Thus it becomes Bob Kraft's (Richard Boone's) turn to do this task. The job isn't difficult and only requires a few hours a month. It is explained to Bob by the grounds keeper that a map of the cemetery on the wall basically does your work for you. A white pin is inserted on grave sites yet to be occupied. Black pins are inserted on grave sites that are already occupied.So Bob reluctantly takes up this task when along comes his first two customers - a member of the committee and his new wife. It was a stipulation in the young man's father's will that he buy graves for himself and his wife as soon as he married before he could collect his full inheritance. In his haste or sloth, whatever it may have been, Bob Kraft puts black pins in where white pins should have been, and in twenty four hours the young couple is dead from a horrific traffic accident. Bob is a bit unnerved by this, feeling that he somehow mystically "marked the couple for death", but as the pin misplacements continue and the bodies pile up so does Bob Kraft's panic. He even calls the local police and asks them to investigate these deaths as homicides. The police don't exactly call him a crackpot because of his prominence, but they can't ignore the up-tick in the death rate either.So the question becomes, since these are obviously natural deaths and it couldn't be some Mr. Hyde version of Bob running around and killing people and not remembering it, is he killing these people, some of them total strangers, with the power of his mind in some unconscious matter? Is this a case of "monsters from the ID"? With only a few cheesy special effects and very little action this movie manages to convey man's fear of that which he cannot control - his own subconscious and death itself.The dialogue is rather spartan but well presented with one exception. Bob is engaged, and every conversation he has with his fiancée might as well be in another language as none of their dialogue makes any sense - it sounds like something Ed Wood would have written. The minute either talks to someone else the conversation becomes comprehensible again. The reason for this I have no idea. If you like the old 50's low budget horror films, I think you'll like this one.

Joseph Brando With a title like "I Bury The Living", this certainly is not what I was expecting - this was basically like a longer, more drawn-out version of one of the less thrilling episodes of "Twilight Zone" or "Alfred Hitchcock". The characters were pretty uninteresting, which is really what made this movie unenjoyable for me - very drab, boring, wooden acting. And even the supernatural element in the story was ruined by a terrible "twist" ending. I like lots of older horror movies, many way older than this 80-minute sleeping pill but I would only recommend this to people who saw it when it first came out and are interested in it for nostalgia reasons.