Dead & Buried
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| 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 |
| Music by | Joe Renzetti |
| Cinematography | Steven Poster |
| Editing by | Alan Balsam |
| Distributed by | Avco Embassy Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1981 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Dead & Buried is a 1981 horror film movie directed by Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson and James Farentino. The screenplay was written by Dan O'Bannon. The movie was listed as one of the 39 “Video Nasties” in 1984.
[edit] Plot
Dead & Buried stars James Farentino as Sheriff Dan Gillis. Without warning, his peaceful tiny New England town of Potter's Bluff starts having murders. Strangers to the town are turning up dead. Naturally, Dan has to find out why. With some able assistance from the local coroner and mortician Dobbs (Jack Albertson), these two become more horrified as each passing day reveals yet another gruesome murder. That is actually a clue, all the murders aren't simple but gruesome. The murderer(s) actually take photos of the victims as they are killed.
The mystery becomes weirder. The audience sees what is happening, and know who the killers are. They can see Sheriff Gillis when he is in the company of friends, and when he is in the company of Grave Danger. One of the questionable people in the Sheriff's life is none other than his wife Janet (Melody Anderson), who has some rather odd reasons for her frequent night time disappearances.
It is eventually revealed that Dobbs has discovered a secret technique for reanimating the dead; all the townspeople are in fact reanimated corpses under his control. Dobbs considers himself an "artist", and has been sending his zombies to murder the living in order to create more corpses for Dobbs to practice his technique on. The ending reveals that the Sheriff is himself one of the living dead, having been murdered by his undead wife before the beginning of the film under Dobb's orders.
