Dead & Buried

Movie

1981

1h 34m

English

Horror, Mystery

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6.3

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After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.

Dead & Buried

Movie

1981

1h 34m

English

Horror, Mystery

Watch on AMC+

After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.

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6.3

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Cast

Sheriff Dan Gillis

Janet Gillis

William G. Dobbs

Ron

Linda

Girl on the Beach / Nurse Lisa

Harry

Ernie

Herman

George Le Moyne / Freddie

Doctor

Ben

Hitchhiker

Betty

Phil

Waitress

Fisherman

Jimmy

Mr. Haskell

Sam

Nurse

Jamie

Jamie

Girl #1

Lady Car Passenger

Directed By: Gary Sherman

Written By: Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay), Ronald Shusett (Screenplay), + 3 more

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OffbeatParadox says...

2 months ago

**Great practical effects with an unsurprising mystery. _Jack Albertson_ is brilliant in this.**

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MaddestMax says...

2 years ago

This is a fun one. It's especially fun for me seeing Mendocino (the primary filming location) as it looked in '81. Cool piece of history. That said, despite the decent cast, the acting is pretty mediocre. Which also matches the story. BUT, it still manages to be entertaining. Enough so that I've watched it multiple times. They use a cool filming mechanism (I'm sure it has a name) during the attack sequences. I kept pausing to check out all the details. Fun watch, especially if you're familiar with Mendo.

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peteo says...

2 years ago

Feels like this should have remained Dead and Buried in the 1980s. I can see how it would have been a shocker in it's time, but the world has moved on, and the themes explored have been done a thousand times since then

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ThatWerewolTho says...

3 years ago

You can see the twist coming a mile away and that's alright. But how this movie manages to slip under the radar of HP Lovecraft fans is a mystery to me.

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Whitsbrain

6/10 3 years ago

"Dead and Buried" had been just that, sitting in my watchlist for years. I finally decided to take the plunge and it turned out to be a more entertaining watch than I'd thought it would be. The opening scene was a real shocker and the last half of the movie kept my interest, which is sometimes a p More

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Bronson87

CONTAINS SPOILERS5/10 3 years ago

Dead and Buried is an early '80's horror mystery that feels like a very long episode of Tales from the Crypt.
There are some very good aspects here, but for some reason the movie just never felt like it had a clear purpose - I'm going to blame the writing or the director. That aside, there is much More

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Wuchak

4 years ago

_**Mysterious deaths in a foggy coastal town**_

A puzzled sheriff in a hazy seaside hamlet in Maine (James Farentino) investigates a string of violent murders. Jack Albertson plays the mortician while Robert Englund appears as a mechanic in his pre-Freddy Krueger days.

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JPV852

3 years ago

"Tales from the Crypt" (meets The Stepford Wives) like story that has plenty of entertainment value even though it's more on the creepy spectrum than scary. Jack Albertson as the mortician was a lot of fun and James Farentino had his moments. **3.75/5**

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