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If you shoot me, you can’t kill me, you can only make me dead! This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show we take a vacation to the picturesque, New England port town of Potter’s Bluff that’s so cute you could literally just die! It’s Clay’s Wild Card pick this week, and he’s taking us all with him back to the 1981 lesser-known fright flick Dead and Buried!
Dead & Buried is a 1981 American horror film directed by Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, and James Farentino. It is Albertson’s final live-action film role before his death six months after the film’s release. The film focuses on a small town wherein a few tourists are murdered, but their corpses begin to reanimate. With a screenplay written by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the film was initially banned as a “video nasty” in the U.K. in the early 1980s, but was later acquitted of obscenity charges and removed from the Director of Public Prosecutions‘ list.
Join Clay and Amanda as they dig up all the dirt on lightbulb-based breaking and entering, casual cape and hat ensembles, a magic book (love the magic book!), a needle in the eye, a young Freddy Krueger, the movie magic of Stan Winston, why Clay thinks this is a better version of what Phantasm was going after, an acid netty pot, and honestly not enough parenting to qualify as questionable parenting.
Dead and Buried is one of those special movies that might not be on the first or second tier of horror movies you dive into, but is part of that oh so satisfying group of surprises that delivers in a very satisfying way when you finally do find it. Absolutely drenched in fog and mist, and dealing with the taboo what happens to a person’s body once they die, Dead and Buried will definitely make your skin crawl, and make you happy you checked out the back row of the horror section at your local video store!
So get your camera out, put on your best full body cast, and embalm yourself with us …if you DARE!