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DPP 72known

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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Psychological Zombie

Dead & Buried

Name: Dead & Buried
Director: Gary Sherman
Genre: Horror, Psychological, Zombie
Released: 1981
Duration: 92 min

Dead & Buried is a 1981 American psychological horror film directed by Gary Sherman. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, later dropped without a successful prosecution.

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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