1981 Vestron Video DEAD AND BURIED Rare VHS Org Box Jack Albertson Englund
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1981 Vestron Video DEAD AND BURIED rare VHS org box Jack Albertson Englund
Dead& Buried isa 1981 American slasher film directedby Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, and James Farentino. It is Albertson’s finallive-action film role before his death six months after the film’s release. Thefilm focuses on a small town wherein a few tourists are murdered, but theircorpses begin to reanimate. With a screenplay w...ritten by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the film was initiallybanned as a "video nasty"in the U.K. in the early 1980s, but was later acquitted of obscenity chargesand removed from the Director of Public Prosecutions' list.The filmmade little money at the box office, but has received praise from criticsregarding Stan Winston'sspecial effects and Albertson's performance. In addition to the film beingsubsequently novelized by Chelsea QuinnYarbro, the film has obtained a cult following in the years since itsrelease.Anamateur photographer arrives in coastal Potters Bluff to practice his craft. Abeautiful woman offers to model for him, but when he accepts her invitation tohave sex, a mob of townspeople beat him and set him afire. The man survives theattack, but is later killed by the woman posing as a nurse in the hospital.Morevisitors are murdered by the townspeople. Sheriff Dan Gillis (James Farentino), assisted by Dobbs (Jack Albertson), the eccentric local coroner-mortician, works hard to discover the motive forthe killings. Gillis becomes increasingly disconcerted as a grisly death occursevery day. In each case, the killers photograph the victims as they aremurdered. Gillis's investigations are complicated by the bizarre behavior ofhis wife, Janet (Melody Anderson).Gillisaccidentally hits someone with his squad car following an attack. On the grillof his car, Gillis finds the twitching severed arm of the accident victim, whoattacks him and flees with the arm. After the attack, Gillis scrapes some fleshfrom the vehicle and takes it to the local doctor, who tells him that thetissue sample has been dead approximately four months. Gillis grows suspiciousof Dobbs and conducts a background check. He discovers that Dobbs was formerlythe chief pathologist in Providence, Rhode Island, until he was dismissed ten years before for conductingunauthorized experiments in the county morgue.Gillisconfronts Dobbs, who admits he has developed a secret technique for reanimatingthe dead, and all of the townspeople are reanimated corpses under his control.Dobbs considers himself an "artist" who uses his reanimated to murderthe living in order to create more corpses for him to create art with. EvenJanet is a reanimated corpse. When she appears in Dobbs's office, Gillis shootsand mortally wounds her, then shoots Dobbs as well. He follows her into thecemetery, where she pleads with him to bury her in an open grave. After he doesas she asks, the rest of the townspeople come to pay their respects.Gillisreturns to Dobbs's office to discover that Dobbs has used his technique onhimself. Dobbs then shows Gillis a film of Janet stabbing him to death as thetownspeople and Dobbs watch. As Gillis stares at his own decomposing hands, Dobbs offers to repair them.James Farentino asSheriff Dan GillisMelody Anderson as Janet GillisJack Albertson as William G. DobbsDennisRedfield as RonNancyLocke as LindaLisa Blount as LisaRobert Englund as HarryBill Quinn as ErnieMichael Currie asHermanChristopher Allport asGeorge LeMoyne / FreddieJosephG. Medalis as The DoctorMacon McCalman as BenLisaMarie as HitchhikerEstelleOmens as BettyBarry Corbin as PhilMichael Pataki as Sam
Directedby Gary ShermanProducedby Robert FentressStoryby Alex SternRunningtime 92 minutes
the VHS works really wellthe QUALITY of the film isn't.....great but it's a typical VHS quality type filmNR but probably PG13
the box is original but not in great shapesome tears bends see scans
Dead& Buried isa 1981 American slasher film directedby Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, and James Farentino. It is Albertson’s finallive-action film role before his death six months after the film’s release. Thefilm focuses on a small town wherein a few tourists are murdered, but theircorpses begin to reanimate. With a screenplay w...ritten by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the film was initiallybanned as a "video nasty"in the U.K. in the early 1980s, but was later acquitted of obscenity chargesand removed from the Director of Public Prosecutions' list.The filmmade little money at the box office, but has received praise from criticsregarding Stan Winston'sspecial effects and Albertson's performance. In addition to the film beingsubsequently novelized by Chelsea QuinnYarbro, the film has obtained a cult following in the years since itsrelease.Anamateur photographer arrives in coastal Potters Bluff to practice his craft. Abeautiful woman offers to model for him, but when he accepts her invitation tohave sex, a mob of townspeople beat him and set him afire. The man survives theattack, but is later killed by the woman posing as a nurse in the hospital.Morevisitors are murdered by the townspeople. Sheriff Dan Gillis (James Farentino), assisted by Dobbs (Jack Albertson), the eccentric local coroner-mortician, works hard to discover the motive forthe killings. Gillis becomes increasingly disconcerted as a grisly death occursevery day. In each case, the killers photograph the victims as they aremurdered. Gillis's investigations are complicated by the bizarre behavior ofhis wife, Janet (Melody Anderson).Gillisaccidentally hits someone with his squad car following an attack. On the grillof his car, Gillis finds the twitching severed arm of the accident victim, whoattacks him and flees with the arm. After the attack, Gillis scrapes some fleshfrom the vehicle and takes it to the local doctor, who tells him that thetissue sample has been dead approximately four months. Gillis grows suspiciousof Dobbs and conducts a background check. He discovers that Dobbs was formerlythe chief pathologist in Providence, Rhode Island, until he was dismissed ten years before for conductingunauthorized experiments in the county morgue.Gillisconfronts Dobbs, who admits he has developed a secret technique for reanimatingthe dead, and all of the townspeople are reanimated corpses under his control.Dobbs considers himself an "artist" who uses his reanimated to murderthe living in order to create more corpses for him to create art with. EvenJanet is a reanimated corpse. When she appears in Dobbs's office, Gillis shootsand mortally wounds her, then shoots Dobbs as well. He follows her into thecemetery, where she pleads with him to bury her in an open grave. After he doesas she asks, the rest of the townspeople come to pay their respects.Gillisreturns to Dobbs's office to discover that Dobbs has used his technique onhimself. Dobbs then shows Gillis a film of Janet stabbing him to death as thetownspeople and Dobbs watch. As Gillis stares at his own decomposing hands, Dobbs offers to repair them.James Farentino asSheriff Dan GillisMelody Anderson as Janet GillisJack Albertson as William G. DobbsDennisRedfield as RonNancyLocke as LindaLisa Blount as LisaRobert Englund as HarryBill Quinn as ErnieMichael Currie asHermanChristopher Allport asGeorge LeMoyne / FreddieJosephG. Medalis as The DoctorMacon McCalman as BenLisaMarie as HitchhikerEstelleOmens as BettyBarry Corbin as PhilMichael Pataki as Sam
Directedby Gary ShermanProducedby Robert FentressStoryby Alex SternRunningtime 92 minutes
the VHS works really wellthe QUALITY of the film isn't.....great but it's a typical VHS quality type filmNR but probably PG13
the box is original but not in great shapesome tears bends see scans
