VividSimon Simply Perfect

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

xXMetalrockeRXx First off, i really like fun cheesy 80s horror. The kind that you can pop in and relax with, but this film just had too much negatives for me to enjoy it without being taken out of it constantly. Even though i don't regret sitting down and watching it, i do think this film is really poorly written. And these guys wrote Alien! That was the unexpected twist that really worked!The pacing is fine, but the direction was pretty bad and the plot was amazingly predictable. Besides the fact that for most of the film, every time its night time you cant see worth sh!t. There are some well utilized camera movements, but its mostly amateurish. The acting is... okay. And I'm speaking mainly because of the main character. The rest? Not so much.In the end, i can see how people find this film enjoyable. I have my fair share of guilty pleasures, but this just wasn't that kind of material for me. 5.5/10

Leofwine_draca 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!

Johan Louwet Surely in 1981 this was a quite original concept and I think it's still interesting and different than the living dead movies we see today. Still despite this the movie was for me a drag to sit through. Sure we have this mystery of why people get killed in such a violent way and how comes they suddenly show up again in exactly the same or even better state. Well the answer is somewhere before halfway that there is some kind of witchcraft involved that violent deaths can bring people back to life. Way too soon I knew though that the sheriff's wife was one of those living dead and it came as no surprise to me in the end that the protagonist himself apparently had forgotten he was one too. Of course if he knew that in advance there would be not much of a movie or story to tell. Can I really blame the movie for being predictable that way? I think it is because I have seen it already quite a few times before. However the movie didn't provide me with really interesting characters either except for the mortician. The others including the sheriff as protagonist were dull as dishwater to me.

Avinash Shukla After reading so many positive reviews about 'Dead and Buried', I felt like giving it a try and my try didn't go in vain. D&B is one of the most influential zombie horror films of its time, whose plot still seems fresh. Gary Sherman has done a great job as his characters 'come to life' and stay credible throughout the movie. I bet Gary has got midas touch. The film doesn't rely on a big budget to prove its worth. What scares a viewer to death in 'D&B' are the characters who turn up alive after being murdered in previous sequences. If you are looking for an eerie set-up, foggy and silent nights, spooky town, strange people, hacked but twisting arm, syringe-poked eye, and a crazy re-animator, then Ladies and Gentleman....WELCOME TO POTTER'S BLUFF'. The film deserves a 10/10 for its lingering nature. You won't forget anything about it even after 10 years and I promise, you'll take this to you graves.Dan Gills (James Farentino) is the friendly Sheriff of Potter's Bluff, a small coastal town. He lives a contented life with his wife Janet (Melody Anderson), who is a school teacher. It so happens that a certain itinerant George (Christopher Allport) is caught by some crazy townspeople and is murdered in a gory fashion. However, George survives, but before he could tell anything to Dan, he is murdered by one of the female assailants right under the nose of Dan and Doctor Joe (Joseph Medalis). George's murder is soon followed by the murders of a vagrant and a young lady backpacker. A family traveling through Potter's Bluff is attacked by some townspeople in the middle of the night. That's when Dan has his first encounter with an assaulter. During all these days, Dan had been discussing the murders with Dr. Dobbs (Jack Albertson), who is apparently Potter's Bluff only mortician. Dobbs is often sarcastic with Dan. Little does Dan know that Dobbs is working on a hidden sinister agenda. Dan's wife Janet had been behaving strange lately. She comes home late at night and it looks as if she is holding a secret. So what's her secret?; and more important, what's the secret of Potter's Bluff? Does this town really teach us 'A New Way to Live'? Unlike other horror movies, D&B doesn't go around silly teenagers or campfire tales. This is no silly or cheesy stuff. Farentino as well as other characters including a younger Robert Englund have shown the viewers one of the highest crests of the American cinema. Farentino is great as sheriff and so are Melody and other actors, but one who really steals the show is Jack Albertson, with great portrayal of Dobb's character. You want Dobbs to be secretive and he is. You want Dan to be sincere in his efforts and he is. You want Melody and several others to be a part of this fishy scheme and they are. The end comes like a big surprise as the viewers are baffled and forced to think whether they should really believe what they just saw. This movie is credible with its tight plot, effective screenplay and matchless atmosphere. Potter's Bluff reeks blood and has everything a horror addict would ever need; a great set-up, deserted beaches and orphan boats, old-style agoraphobia inducing hospital corridor, freaky café with strange customers, uninhabited houses, rainy hillsides, old truck, foggy nights, and finally a scheming cold-blooded re-animator who is about to take over the town with his re-animated creations. D&B with its great atmosphere is capable of bewitching anyone who wants a relentless dose of atmospheric horror. This film has 80's written all over it and seems obsessed with the quality horror of its time. Simply unmissable!