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Dead & Buried
Directed by
Gary Sherman
Produced by
Robert Fentress
Richard R. St. Johns
Ronald Shusett
Written by
Short Story Author:
Alex Stern
Jeff Millar
Screenwriters:
Ronald Shusett
Dan O'Bannon
Starring
James Farentino
Melody Anderson
Jack Albertson
Dennis Redfield
Nancy Locke
Robert Englund
Music by
Joe Renzetti
Cinematography
Steven Poster
Editing by
Alan Balsam
Distributed by
Avco Embassy Pictures
Release date(s)
May 29, 1981
Running time
92 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
Dead & Buried is a 1981 horror film directed by Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson and James Farentino. 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 80s, but was later acquitted of obscenity charges and removed from the Director of Public Prosecutions' list.
It was Jack Albertson's final film; he died six months after the film's US release.
The movie was subsequently novelized by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. In a 1983 interview with Starburst promoting Blue Thunder, O'Bannon disowned the film (he claimed that Shusett had written the script by himself but needed O'Bannon's name on the project, and promised he'd make some changes; on seeing the finished film O'Bannon realised Shusett had done nothing of the sort, but it was too late for him to take his name off the credits).
[edit] Plot
James Farentino stars as Dan Gillis, sheriff of the small New England coastal town of Potter's Bluff where, 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. The Photographer is later killed under the sheriff and doctor's noses at the local hospital.
As the story progresses, 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 with the killers photographing the victims as they are murdered.
The film's creepiness is enhanced by the audience knowing the identity of the killers, nearly all of who are friends of Gillis whose wife Janet (Melody Anderson) has suspicious reasons for her own frequent nocturnal disappearances.[clarification needed]
After Gillis accidentally hits someone with his squad car following a recent attack, the bizarre nature of the murders becomes even more evident. On the grill of his car, Gillis finds the twitching, severed arm of the accident victim, who suddenly attacks him before fleeing with the arm. After the attack, Gilis scrapes some flesh from the vehicle and takes it to Dobbs, who tells him that the body the flesh came from had died approximately four weeks before.
As his suspicions of Dobbs grow, Gillis conducts a background check and discovers that he was formerly 'Dr. Dobbs', a chief pathologist in Providence, Rhode Island until his dimissal 10 years previously for conducting unauthorized autopsies in the county morgue ¨C just before he moved to Potter's Bluff.
The film eventually reveals that Dobbs has developed a secret technique for reanimating the dead, and all of the townspeople are in reality reanimated corpses under his control. Dobbs considers himself an "artist" who uses his zombies to murder the living in order to create more corpses on which to practice his reanimation technique.
At the conclusion, it turns out that the Sheriff is actually one of the living dead, having been murdered by his undead wife prior to the on-screen events under Dobb's orders. As the film ends, Gillis notices his own hands decomposing, whereupon Dobbs asks to examine them.
[edit] Cast
James Farentino as Sheriff Dan Gillis
Melody Anderson as Janet Gillis
Jack Albertson as William G. Dobbs
Dennis Redfield as Ron
Nancy Locke as Linda
Lisa Blount as Girl on the Beach / Lisa
Robert Englund as Harry
Bill Quinn as Ernie
Michael Currie as Herman
Christopher Allport as George LeMoyne / Freddie
Joseph G. Medalis as The Doctor
Macon McCalman as Ben
Lisa Marie as The Hitchhiker
Estelle Omens as Betty
Barry Corbin as Phil
[edit] External links
Dead & Buried at the Internet Movie Database
Dead & Buried at AllRovi
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