Dead & Buried

"It will take your breath away. All of it."

Oct 9 1981 R 1h 34m
Horror, Mystery

After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.

Plot

Sheriff Dan Gillis has a nice life with his wife, the teacher Janet Gillis, in the small coastal and friendly town of Potter's Bluff. When visitors are mysterious killed in the town, Sheriff Gillis investigates the cases carefully and finds that dead people are reanimating and coming back to life. Dan finds a book of witchcraft and voodoo in his wife's drawer and he suspects that she might be practicing black magic. Dan meets the coroner-mortician William G. Dobbs and learns the dreadful and surprising secret.

Written by

Jeff Millar, Alex Stern, Ronald Shusett

Directed by

Gary Sherman

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance

Languages

English

Awards

2 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
15,711
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
71
Popularity
NA