When a string of murders start to pop up around the fog-shrouded town of Potter’s Buff, Sheriff Dan Gillis slowly realizes he is in a lose-lose situation as more tourists to this sleepy town keep turning up dead. 1981’s Dead and Buried is the kind of really weird and chokingly atmospheric horror film that has all but vanished from today’s film production. It’s a little slow-paced and leans on the story’s characters to spin a different breed of living dead legend. Throughout the film, I kept thinking this is exactly what The Wicker Man would be if it had been penned by Stephen King. It’s a fun, probably deeper cut, horror film that delivers a few major gory jolts and a twist ending that I can say I didn’t see coming. Check this film out if you are a fan of Stephen King or Ari Aster’s brooding cult films.
