I Bury the Living
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| Original title | I Bury the Living |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 77 minutes |
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| Director | Albert Band |
| script | Louis Garfinkle |
| production | Louis Garfinkle, Albert Band |
| music | Gerald Fried |
| camera | Frederick Gately |
| cut | Frank Sullivan |
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I Bury the Living (translated I bury the living ) is a horror film of the B-Movie -Regisseurs Albert Band , the father of Charles Band . Richard Boone and Theodore Bikel appear in the film. The script was written by Louis Garfinkle . Gerald Fried contributed the music.
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Robert Kraft is the newly elected chairman of a committee that deals with the operation of a large cemetery. The caretaker of the cemetery, Andy MacKee, maintains a map of the area, which marks every occupied grave with a black pin and every unoccupied but already reserved grave with white pins. Kraft is new to his position and unfortunately marks an unoccupied grave with a black pin - and soon learns that the young couple who had reserved this tomb died in a traffic accident.
To calm himself down and find out whether this was really just a coincidence, he does an experiment: he swaps a randomly selected white pin for a black one. To his horror, he realizes that this person dies that same week. At the urging of his friends and colleagues, he continues these experiments - and the further deaths plunge Robert into deep feelings of guilt.
The police, who were initially skeptical, became aware of the number of deaths and asked him to conduct an experiment. Robert is supposed to put a black pin on the grave of a man who is currently in France. The following night he got the idea that he could turn the game around - he could perhaps give life to the dead. So he replaces all recently placed black pins with white ones. When he visits the graves, he finds that all of these graves have been opened and the bodies have disappeared.
When he returned to the office the next day, Robert received a call - the man in question had died in France. When he hung up the phone, guard Andy was standing behind him, in completely dirty clothes. He confesses that he killed everyone marked “black” in revenge for being forced to resign. But Robert tells him about the death of the man in France. Andy goes insane and when the police arrive they find him lifeless. The police then explain to Robert that the man never died in France - as a ruse to push the cemetery attendant out of office.
Trivia
Author Stephen King led in the book Danse Macabre (1981) I Bury the Living as one of his favorite films, but, however, criticized the end. In the foreword to King's short story Obits in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015), he describes the influences of this film on this short story.
Web links
- I Bury the Living in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ I Bury the Living (1958) - Trivia. In: IMDb . Retrieved November 30, 2018 .