I BURY THE LIVING
(1958)
“Annie if you are going to cry, go do it elsewhere” –
Robert.
So in this one a group of dudes own a cemetery. All of the
plots in the cemetery are waiting for people to die (for lack of a better way
of putting it), but by an odd coincidence the owners figure out that merely
changing the color of the pins on the plot map seems to actually kill the plots
owners. The idea sounds so nuts a few of the owners are idiot enough to test it
out on their own plots. By the way the prop guys that worked on this plot map
just put a lot of effort into it. I would never have wanted to draw that thing.
If you watch a lot of Twilight Zone this has a very Twilight Zone-ish feel to
it. At one point even the cops are kind of testing it out. We get some solid
performances from Richard Boone (who actually voiced the animated version of
Smaug in THE HOBBIT 1977) as Robert Kraft and Robert Osterloh (who was in just a ton of
stuff) as Lt. Clayborne. There are more
than a few oddities about this weird slow moving view into the yester-year of
horror but almost every dramatic moment feels like it should have a commercial
after it. Some of the overlays are completely un-necessary I am guessing the
director must have thought we wouldn’t know exactly what was happening at some
points in this film. Overall the buildup was fantastic but the ending…man… I
hated it. Have to give this one a 3 out of 7.
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