Dead & Buried (Limited Edition)
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Actor: Dennis Redfield, Jack Albertson, James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Nancy LockeBrand: WEA DES Moines Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
Published: 2003-07-01
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 582003
Studio: Blue Underground
Product features:
- DEAD & BURIED LIMITED EDITION 2-DISC (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of Dead & Buried (Limited Edition)
DVD Review: Loved it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't think it's any secret that I love horror films. As regular readers of my reviews can attest to--all one or two of them--I watch an enormous number of these types of films. Most of them are, frankly, terrible. That goes for both high and low budget celluloid monstrosities and the plethora of shot on video dreckfests currently plaguing the market. I've seen so many horrible horror movies that I should have built up a tolerance to them years ago. Well, I haven't. The emotional and physical impact of a bad movie is just as destructive as it was when I saw my first bad film. Fortunately, I didn't have any problems with Gary Sherman's wonderful 1981 release "Dead and Buried." I'm familiar with the director's work on such memorable pictures as "Raw Meat" as well as his forgettable stuff like "Poltergeist III." "Dead and Buried" is his best film, at least when compared to these two works. It's a zombie film, in a way, but unlike any other zombie film I've seen. Forget about Romero's social statements or Fulci's over the top gore. While Sherman's film does have a few cringe inducing moments, "Dead and Buried" is a whole other ball of wax entirely.
The town of Potter's Bluff seems like your typical scenic seaside villa. When a photographer turns up to take some nice pictures on the beach, he runs into a blonde woman who convinces him to take some photographs of her. Oh dear. While under this woman's spell, the photographer fails to notice a bunch of townspeople zeroing in on him. Next thing he knows, he's tied up to a post with rope surrounded by a sinister looking group of Potter's Bluff's finest. "Welcome to Potter's Bluff" grumbles one of the townspeople as the gang douses the photographer in gasoline and lights him up. Flash forward a few hours to a horrific car crash on the outskirts of town. A burning automobile and a terribly burned body brings in Potter's Bluff Sheriff Dan Gillis (James Farentino) and the local doctor who doubles as the coroner, the elderly G. Williams Dobbs (Jack Albertson). Incredibly, the driver of the car is still alive, and we soon discover that it's the very same photographer we met at the beginning of the film. Oddly, Dobbs claims that the guy driving the car was probably burned before the accident. Is there a killer on the loose in Potter's Bluff?
You bet there is, but not in the way you would think. As Sheriff Gillis investigates the mysterious circumstances behind the photographer's accident, he slowly starts to uncover information about Potter's Bluff that would make anyone's skin crawl. For instance, he runs into increasing resistance to his inquiries from both Dobbs and various townspeople (including a young Robert Englund and television character actor Barry Corbin). Gillis's wife Janet (Melody Anderson) also starts acting in a way that plants dark seeds of suspicion in Dan's mind. Although he never noticed it before, the town of Potter's Bluff is just, well, weird. People passing through town tend to disappear under suspicious circumstances, but that's not all. Gillis eventually notices, with a mounting sense of absolute dread, that people gone missing soon reappear as new residents of Potter's Bluff. We see what happens even as Gillis doesn't, and it appears that the townspeople don't take kindly to outsiders of the living type. They'll hunt down anyone they can get their hands on so they can turn them into zombies with a little help from one of the town's most important residents. By the time Sheriff Dan turns up some information on his kindly associate Doctor Dobbs, you just know the film won't have a happy ending. It doesn't, but it does end with a double whammy sure to have you roaring with delight.
I liked most everything about "Dead and Buried." You've got to love a film that has Farentino, Albertson, Englund, Corbin, Lisa Blount from "Prince of Darkness," and Melody Anderson of "Flash Gordon" fame mooning about. You also should appreciate the gore effects created by none other than Stan Winston. A needle in the eye, gruesome facial reconstructions, acid baths, and a few other grisly nightmares await your attention. The gore is good without going over the top (not that over the top is ever a bad thing, mind you). What really grabbed my attention in "Dead and Buried" was the gradually intensifying sense of dread as the story unfolds. Sherman does an excellent job connecting the dots in a way that had me guessing up until the very end. And what an end this movie has! Goodness! Just imagine what it must have been like to be in his shoes when everything comes into focus (you'll know whom it is I'm talking about after watching the movie). Perhaps the most surprising thing about "Dead and Buried" is the treatment it receives on DVD.
Blue Underground, known for their absolute adoration for cult films, pulled out all the stops with this picture. It's a two-disc set loaded with plenty of goodies to get your blood flowing. We get three separate commentary tracks, trailers (done in that great early 1980's style), poster and stills galleries, a featurette about Stan Winston's special effects that is quite informative, a bit of info on Robert Englund, and some background on one of the writers of the script (Dan O'Bannon, the guy who did "Alien"). The picture quality is very good considering the frequent fog shrouded scenes of Potter's Bluff. If you're a horror fan, you simply must watch "Dead and Buried." It's a marvelous picture.
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