“This is the road to Potter’s Bluff.  There is no road out…”

dead and buriedThe cozy little town of Potter’s Bluff is having to endure a series of gruesome murders.  The sheriff, Dan Gillis, is at a dead end as to the “why” and “who”.  Assisting him is the town’s coroner and mortician, Dobbs.  Both men try to unravel the mystery of why strangers to Potter’s Bluff are being killed in the most horrendous fashions.

What about the man Gillis acidentally hits in his vehicle?  The man runs away…leaving his arm in the truck grill.  Test results on the arm tissue indicate the man had already been dead for a month.  What the sheriff and the coroner don’t know is that the townsfolk are behind it.  Mobs of them gather and kill.  Shockingly, they record the killings on video and in photographs.  But why are the people of Potter’s Bluff doing this?  And is the sheriff’s own wife in on all the hack and slash and stabby stab?

To know that, my dear friends, you’ll have to watch this, almost, forgotten fright flick.

Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shushett, both of the mega classic Alien, wrote the screenplay for this creepy mystery/horror, and young Robert Englund is one of the townspeople.  This was Jack Albertson’s last film (he plays the coroner, Dobbs); you may best remember Albertson as Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.


I bought this DVD a couple of years ago on a lark, and I’m glad I did, I wasn’t disappointed.  It’s a mixture of styles, going from quiet terror one minute to all out eye-gouging gore the next.  Dead & Buried should please most mystery fans, and especially those horror buffs who like their movies to go from a whisper to a scream.

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