Post by criterionmaster on Jul 11, 2006 16:41:53 GMT -5
Dead and Buried
Review by: Dan Kinem
“Dan, I'm dead! Please bury me!”
Atmosphere. Atmosphere, for me, makes or breaks a horror film. It is one of the most important elements and most times goes unnoticed by people who watch the film. Without atmosphere a film could be as bland as one of the new “glossy” horror films that have been coming out recently but with it, it can become an amazing classic like Carnival of Souls. This film I am happy to say has it!
It is “from the creators of Alien” while this is not a Ridley Scott film it is the same writers and effects team which helps. This is a totally original story that is much more interesting than most of the horror films that were flooding drive-ins and theaters at the time. It is a story of a cop who is investigating several murders in a small town until one day he sees one of the men who was suppose to be dead walking around the street. I really don’t want to spoil anything for you though. All I will say is it’s like an unconventional zombie flick.
The excellent effects also add to the film, because a horror film without effects sounds pretty iffy to me. The great Stan Winston does the effects. He creates each effect, no matter how crazy, with care going for realism instead of going the over-the-top route. There are two key effects in the film, and two that horror fans are sure to love. One, which is a very nice one, is the needle in the eyeball scene and the other is the amazing scene where you literally watch a man start with a skeleton and rebuild a beautiful woman who then gets up and moves. No cuts make it even better.
This was a very surprising film for many reasons and one was the acting. I was surprised by the nice little cast in the film. Jack Albertson does an excellent job and us horror fans even get the treat of Robert England in an early role before he went on to play Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm St. series.
This really is a must see for horror fans. There are plenty of things to enjoy about this film. Especially the end…
8/10
Review by: Dan Kinem
“Dan, I'm dead! Please bury me!”
Atmosphere. Atmosphere, for me, makes or breaks a horror film. It is one of the most important elements and most times goes unnoticed by people who watch the film. Without atmosphere a film could be as bland as one of the new “glossy” horror films that have been coming out recently but with it, it can become an amazing classic like Carnival of Souls. This film I am happy to say has it!
It is “from the creators of Alien” while this is not a Ridley Scott film it is the same writers and effects team which helps. This is a totally original story that is much more interesting than most of the horror films that were flooding drive-ins and theaters at the time. It is a story of a cop who is investigating several murders in a small town until one day he sees one of the men who was suppose to be dead walking around the street. I really don’t want to spoil anything for you though. All I will say is it’s like an unconventional zombie flick.
The excellent effects also add to the film, because a horror film without effects sounds pretty iffy to me. The great Stan Winston does the effects. He creates each effect, no matter how crazy, with care going for realism instead of going the over-the-top route. There are two key effects in the film, and two that horror fans are sure to love. One, which is a very nice one, is the needle in the eyeball scene and the other is the amazing scene where you literally watch a man start with a skeleton and rebuild a beautiful woman who then gets up and moves. No cuts make it even better.
This was a very surprising film for many reasons and one was the acting. I was surprised by the nice little cast in the film. Jack Albertson does an excellent job and us horror fans even get the treat of Robert England in an early role before he went on to play Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm St. series.
This really is a must see for horror fans. There are plenty of things to enjoy about this film. Especially the end…
8/10
