Dead & buried

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Movie
German title Dead & buried
Original title Dead & Buried
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1981
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16 (re-examination 2009)
Rod
Director Gary Sherman
script Dan O'Bannon ,
Ronald Shusett
production Robert Fentress ,
Ronald Shusett
music Joe Renzetti
camera Steven B. Poster
cut Alan balm
occupation

Dead & Buried (Original title: Dead & Buried ) is an American horror film from 1981 . Directed by Gary Sherman and written by Dan O'Bannon .

action

Dan Gillis is sheriff in town Potters Bluff in New England are found dead, in some comers. He is investigating the murders while his wife, Janet, a schoolteacher, regularly goes out at night.

One day, Gillis runs into a person he does not know who is seriously injured - the accident victim is obviously of supernatural origin - who escapes. The incident makes law enforcement officers suspicious. This then intensified his efforts to fathom the activities in more detail. Gillis finally has skin remnants from the accident car examined in a laboratory, which ultimately says that the tissue has been dead for a few weeks. It turns out that local undertaker William G. Dobbs invented a method of dissecting and ultimately resurrecting the dead. The entire local population consists of zombies controlled by Dobbs. In the end, the sheriff also has to realize that he was once murdered by his wife and is also a revenant.

Reviews

Jennifer Dunning wrote in the New York Times on October 10, 1981 that the film offered a "fairly standard and cynical" plot that would please most horror movie fans. The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "a horror film based on well-known models" that appeared "questionable despite the obvious formal effort due to the speculative depiction of sadistic killing scenes" . TV Movie magazine wrote that the film was "exciting, but excessively brutal" .

Awards

The film was nominated for the best horror film and for the make-up for the Saturn Award in 1982 .

backgrounds

The film was in Mendocino ( California turned). Its production amounted to an estimated three million dollars . The film grossed around 216,000 US dollars in selected US cinemas.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Film review by Jennifer Dunning  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 9, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / movies.nytimes.com  
  2. Dead & Buried in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  3. TV Movie ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 9, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tvmovie.de
  4. ^ Filming locations for Dead & Buried , accessed October 9, 2008
  5. Box office / business for Dead & Buried , accessed October 9, 2008