Wow! Such a good movie.

Sadly Over-hyped

Fantastic!

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

A classic, low budget, living dead horror film, Dead & Buried takes place in the fictitious little town of Potter's Bluff. James Farentino plays the role of Sheriff Dan Gillis, the local lawman trying to solve a string of violent murders taking place within the town. Jack Albertson is suitably creepy in the role of William G. Dobbs, the local funeral director/undertaker with a God complex.During his investigation, Dan finds a book on black magic and witchcraft his wife Janet (Melody Anderson) has hidden in a drawer. He starts to wonder if there's black magic involved in the recent murders. He's proved right as the corpses of the recently killed are being reanimated. This leads to a confrontation between the sheriff and the undertaker. Some surprising truths are revealed leading to the twisty ending.Look for some familiar faces among the townspeople. Bill Quinn, Barry Corbin and a pre Freddy Krueger Robert Englund all appear in the film. The special effects are not great by today's standards, but were pretty state of the art for the time. On the whole, I found the movie fascinating and I believe it has done George Romero proud.Check this one out if you can, I think you'll be equal measures pleased and creeped out.

"Dead & Buried" takes place in the small coastal community of Potter's Bluff, where mysterious locals seem to be hacking tourists and passersby to death—but instead of dying, they are coming back from the dead and joining the mob of their zombie-like murderers.Giving the fairly prolific cast (James Farentino, Robert Englund, Jack Albertson) and other talent behind this film (including Dan O'Bannon, co-writer of "Alien"), I had fairly high expectations of this film. The opening scene entails a photographer who is lured onto an empty beach by a beautiful woman who asks him to photograph her; suddenly, a mob of ghoulish townspeople appear out of nowhere, and he meets a gruesome fate. It's a terrifying scene, exacerbated by the fact that it occurs in broad daylight on such an innocuous sunny beach."Dead & Buried" is, as many have said, an atmospheric film; it has the dreary coastal atmosphere down to a T, and it is also extremely well-shot. At times, it reminded me of 1973's "Messiah of Evil," which has a similar premise. It is also fairly well-acted from its lead cast. Where the film falters is in its pacing and plotting—there are bizarre editing choices and arrangements of scenes throughout that are frankly distracting. While some films use this kind of approach with purpose, such does not seem to be the case here; it feels as though the editors legitimately did not know what they were doing, and the result is that tension and suspense buildup are never really given an opportunity to grow.As I mentioned, the acting is solid, with James Farentino playing a convincing cop, and Jack Albertson (who most will recognize as Charlie's grandpa in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory") playing the local coroner. The film has an intriguing twist ending that demands a serious suspension of disbelief, but it is nonetheless a legitimately weird plot twist that colors the film with light shades of science fiction.Overall, "Dead & Buried" is a bit of a mishmash. While the film is atmospheric and has some legitimately scary scenes, it is also badly-edited and not nearly as suspenseful as it feels it should be. Its wilder psychotronic elements that come into play during the final act have earned it a cult following, and understandably so—but at the end of the day, it is a flawed film—one with some exceptional scenes and ideas, but no less flawed. It is worth watching for the general weirdness of its atmosphere and a handful of spooky moments, though it still feels like a gem that needed just a bit more polishing to really reach the next level. 6/10.

Here's a rarity - a film that manages to be both atmospheric and gory in equal measures! Originally a borderline nasty, in these enlightened days the censors have seen fit to release an uncut version of this little gem which starts off slowly before building to a tense denouement. My only complaint about the film is that a lot of action takes place at night, making things murky and hard to see. Apart from that minor flaw, it's a classic!The film follows a typical mystery format with a male detective gradually amassing clues and uncovering a conspiracy in his small town. This alone is adequate enough, but the discovery that his town is full of zombies who appear to be human ranks up there with the other small-town terrors of LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH and SALEM'S LOT. The film doesn't skimp on the gore front either, with plenty of brutal deaths - the excuse being that the witch doctor likes to repair his corpses, so has to have them disfigured in the first place! We get needles sticking straight into eyeballs, acid dissolving faces, people burning alive and much, much more. The show-stopping opening mixes in violence, nudity, romance and terror in equal abundance and is a sure-fire way of hooking the viewer! Okay, so the acting isn't Oscar-calibre, but I thought it was at least adequate. James Farentino is slightly wooden as the slow-witted hero, yet in the final third he shows his true colours. A few familiar faces pad out the rest of the cast, including Melody Anderson (THE IMMORTALIZER) and a turn from a young Robert Englund - just three years before he would don Freddy Krueger's razor-blade gloves. Jack Albertson is also very good as the creepy mortician.For the most part, this is a slow-moving shocker with a number of scary images - the crowd of zombies silhouetted in a light, shuffling along slowly but surely even beats similar images from Romero's trilogy. But in the final twenty minutes when the final realisation dawns on our intrepid sheriff, things really hot up, and the film becomes brilliant. There's even one of those twist endings that I adore. DEAD & BURIED is unfortunately mostly forgotten, but once viewed remains etched in the brain of those who have watched - it's that memorable. Nicely suspenseful, this is a perfect little B-movie and deserves tracking down!

I gave this movie a 8/10 because compared to horror movies of the same time era this movie is amazing. It has the feel of something that might have been directed by John Carpenter at that time. It won't provide huge scares by todays standards, but it does a brilliant job of establishing an eerie atmosphere and suspense, which in my opinion does wonders in adding to the enjoyability of any movie. I think had this movie been directed by a bigger name director or perhaps stared someone more well known it would have enjoyed a much larger fan base, as it stands it seems to fly under the radar of most horror lists come Halloween time which is too bad because it really is well written and very enjoyable little movie.