Dead & Buried (1981)

Directed by

Gary Sherman

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, mystery film, zombie film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 330 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a small coastal town, tourists are murdered by locals and then come back to life as zombies. A sheriff investigates the strange events and suspects a conspiracy involving the town mortician.

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What happens

Dead & Buried is a 1981 American horror film directed by Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, and James Farentino. It is Albertson's final live-action film role before his death six months after the film's release. 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 film was initially banned as a "video nasty" in the U.K. in the early 1980s, but was later acquitted of obscenity charges and removed from the Director of Public Prosecutions' list. The film made little money at the box office, but has received praise from critics regarding Stan Winston's special effects and Albertson's performance. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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