Post by stefancrosscoe on May 8, 2017 10:04:30 GMT
"I was more than mildly insulted. Just because I'm a mortician she had the audacity to insinuate that I might have knowledge of the black arts!"
Potter's Bluff is usually known as a small and friendly place, that takes good care of the visiting tourists, but with the sudden and gruesome discovery of several mutilated bodies floating around, the town's once peaceful reputation is about to be turned into a full blown nightmare, as neither the local Sheriff or any of it's inhabitants can no longer guarantee that the visitors will ever be able to leave Potter's Bluff, alive.
I tried to use the search function, but I could not find any related topics/threads about this film, so I decided to start up a new one.
Dead & Buried is one the best "impulse" buys that I stumbled upon around summer of 2005-06, and found a very cheap scandiavian DVD that seemed to try and sell the movie out to be just another early 80s slasher movie, but it turned out that it was far away of that.
Instead, Dead & Buried feels more like a slow paced mystery tale, full of twists and turns and also comes with a great surprise along the way.
I guess that being released during the most hectic run of the early 80s, with the whole slasher boom going crazy, it was not easy to sell the film out towards an audience expecting just another Jason Vorhees or Michael Myers adventure, where some crazy maniac is about to go on a bloody rampage for the next 80-90 minutes or so.
Sure, there are some nasty and very brutal scenes thrown in here and there, but for me the thing I loved most is how well made the film is, with a neat and chilling atmosphere, a bit of black comedy, tragedy, good acting and music, and I really enjoyed the chemistry between the naive but friendly Sheriff Dan Gillis and the towns very own mortician, William Dobbs, who was quite a character.
You also get to see a lot of the beautiful Melody Anderson, in one of her earliest roles, and a certain Robert Englund, who would go on and become a horror movie icon, as Freddie Krueger, 3 years later on in Nightmare on Elm Street.
I went for this old trailer instead of many of the updated ones, as they seem throw in some huge spoilers of the film, that and a lot of the gore/scary parts, and I think that if one goes in with those expectations, one might be disappointed, as Dead & Buried is not just another gory/splatter/zombie film.