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James Farentino

Sheriff Dan Gillis

Melody Anderson

Janet Gillis

Jack Albertson

William G. Dobbs

Dennis Redfield

Ron

Nancy Locke

Linda
(as Nancy Locke Hauser)

Lisa Blount

Girl on the Beach…

Robert Englund

Harry

Bill Quinn

Ernie

Michael Currie

Herman

Christopher Allport

George Le Moyne…

Joseph G. Medalis

Doctor
(as Joe Medalis)

Macon McCalman

Ben

Lisa Marie

Hitchhiker

Estelle Omens

Betty

Barry Corbin

Phil

Linda Shusett

Waitress
(as Linda Turley)

Ed Bakey

Fisherman

Glenn Morshower

Jimmy

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Trivia
Stan Winston's special effects went beyond creating gore for the film. The figure in the full body cast lying in George LeMoyne's hospital bed was a mechanical dummy built by Winston. The life-like detail and elaborate movements the dummy was rigged to make gives the appearance that its a real person and makes the infamous needle-eye stab all the more startling.

Goofs
The hitchhiker can be seen as a zombie before she is actually killed, reconstructed and brought back to life. This is because the abandoned house scene - where she is clearly visible as one of the dead townfolk - was originally placed in the film after her resurrection.

Quotes
Dobbs: You can try to kill me, Dan. But you can't. You can only make me dead.

Alternate versions
Although the original UK cinema version was uncut this film was undeservedly caught up in the British video nasties hysteria in the early eighties, and consequently did not receive an official British video certificate until 1990. Illegally circulated copies of the film, followed by successful prosecutions under the Obscene Publications Act, forced the BBFC to edit 30 seconds from the movie with most cuts being made to the opening burning scene and a brief sequence of a bandaged patient being stabbed in the eye with a syringe. The BBFC fully waived all the edits for the 1999 Polygram video and all subsequent releases are fully uncut.

Connections
Featured in Sneak Previews: Raiders of the Lost Ark, City of Women, I Sent a Letter To My Love, Cutter's Way (1981)

Soundtracks
Sentimental Journey
written by John T. Williams / Benjamin Homer / Bud Green

A Cult-Movie with a Surprising End

Sheriff Dan Gillis (James Farentino) has a nice life with his wife, the teacher Janet Gillis (Melody Anderson), in the small coastal and friendly town of Potter's Bluff. When visitors are mysterious killed in the town, Sheriff Gillis investigates the cases carefully and finds that dead people are reanimating and coming back to life. Dan finds a book of witchcraft and voodoo in his wife's drawer and he suspects that she might be practicing black magic. Dan meets the coroner-mortician William G. Dobbs (Jack Albertson) and learns the dreadful and surprising secret.

"Dead & Buried" is a cult-movie with a creepy atmosphere and a surprising end. The plot has flaws, with lack of explanation for many situations. Why should Dobbs let the sheriff investigate further and not disclose the truth about him in the beginning? My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Os Mortos Vivos" ("The Living Dead")

Note: On 26 March 2015, I saw this film again. Note: On 10 Dec 2019, I saw this film again.