dead & buried

Director: gary sherman

Actor: james farentino,melody anderson,jack albertson,dennis redfield

Data Published: Mon Jul 27 1981

Genres: Horror,Mystery

Key Words: extreme violence,zombie,murder investigation,screaming,photographer

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082242/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_%26_Buried

Description: Dead & Buried is a movie starring James Farentino, Melody Anderson, and Jack Albertson. A suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting...

Plot: James Farentino stars as Dan Gillis, sheriff of the small New England coastal town of Potter's Bluff. In the film's opening scene, a mob of townspeople attempt to kill a visiting photographer. He is beaten, tied to a post then set on fire. He survives and is taken to a hospital, where he is murdered just out of sight of the sheriff and the doctor. More visitors are murdered by the townspeople. Sheriff Gillis, assisted by Dobbs, the local coroner-mortician (Jack Albertson), works hard to discover the motive for the killings. Gillis becomes increasingly disconcerted as a grisly death occurs every day. In each case, the killers photograph the victims as they are murdered. Gillis accidentally hits someone with his squad car following an attack. On the grill of his car, Gillis finds the twitching severed arm of the accident victim, who attacks him and flees with the arm. After the attack, Gillis scrapes some flesh from the vehicle and takes it to the local doctor, who tells him that the tissue sample has been dead approximately four months. Gillis grows suspicious of Dobbs and conducts a background check. He discovers that Dobbs was formerly the chief pathologist in Providence, Rhode Island, until he was dismissed 10 years before for conducting unauthorized autopsies in the county morgue. At the climax, it is revealed that Dobbs has developed a secret technique for reanimating the dead, and all of the townspeople are reanimated corpses under his control. They obey Dobbs slavishly, and believe only what he tells them to believe. Dobbs considers himself an "artist" who uses his zombies to murder the living in order to create more corpses for him to manipulate as his puppets. Gillis sees his hands decomposing, and Dobbs offers to repair them. To his horror, the Sheriff realizes that he is also one of the dead when Dobbs shows him a movie of his undead wife murdering him in bed during sex, under Dobbs' orders.