- Director
- Gary Sherman
- Year
- 1981
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 92 min
Also released as
- Dead and Buried
- Muertos y enterrados
- Morts i enterrats
- Mort et enterré
- Dood en begraven
- A Cidade dos Mortos-Vivos
- Réincarnations
- Noituutta
- Död och begraven
- Tromos stin poli
- Ζωντανός και θαμμένος
- Zongeria
- Похоронены, но не мертвы...
- Look Alive
- Mrtvi i sahranjeni
- ゾンゲリア
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Dead & Buried
Eerie, well made, and completely undeserving of the list. Stan Winston's effects.
The most inexplicable name on the DPP list. A well-reviewed film with a major studio cast, effects by Stan Winston, a script credited to Dan O'Bannon, and it was listed alongside Bruno Mattei.
A New England fishing village is killing visitors and the visitors keep turning up alive afterwards, working in the shops. The sheriff investigating is slower to work it out than the audience, which is normally a flaw and here is the point.
Jack Albertson plays the mortician as a delighted craftsman with a gramophone, and it was his last role. The film is truly eerie in a way almost nothing else on the list attempts: it is quiet, coastal and overcast, and its horror is bureaucratic.
Passed 18 uncut and nobody has ever produced a coherent account of why it was on the list at all. The needle in the opening is the usual guess.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · listed, then dropped
UK video title Dead and Buried
A well-reviewed film with a major studio cast and Stan Winston's effects, listed alongside Bruno Mattei. Nobody has produced a coherent explanation for its inclusion.
UK now Passed 18 uncut
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