The Nasties Review: Dead and Buried

One of the biggest of the mainstream studio releases to hit the DPP list, Dead and Buried has old pitted against new in a zombie movie with a difference.
Some big names in film production line up to give us Dead and Buried, but is it any good?

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Film & Animation

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• DPP
• OPA
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• VRA
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• recordings
• act
• banned
• nasties
• nasty
• review
• cynical
• celluloid
• dead
• buried
• zombies
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[BloodylocksBathory]

LOL "you'll NEVER leave!" It's like Royston Vasey.

Old and harmless huh? That's what they always said about Burgess Meredith and look what happens every time he's in a horror movie.

Compared to other nasties, this one definitely seems out of place, doesn't it?

[lampyman101]

@BloodylocksBathory Yeah it's definitely an oddity on the list. I wouldn't be surprised if this was in part an inspiration for Royston Vasey as Mark Gatiss (one of the stars and writers of The League of Gentlemen series) is a huge horror fan.

Burgess Meredith was a bad ass too LOL

[71yid]

@lampyman101 Good review, the first victim on the beach was played by Christopher Allport who later in his career would turn up in an episode of the x -files called Lazarus in which he plays special agent jack willis.

[lampyman101]

@71yid Ahhhh....Nice bit of trivia there, Thanks ;0)

[glint20]

Did anyone else notice it said 'A new way of life' on the sign in the beginning? Great stuff as usual

[lampyman101]

@glint20 I hadn't commented on it but it is deeply ironic isn't it?

[dornravlin]

i live

near were this was shot

[Themaniacnextdoor]

Banning this was highly effective; i've never heard of it before.

[tjhoenecke]

Meh, haven't seen the whole film, but the political subtext seems a bit too thin to stretch much; after all, nostalgia is hardly a primarily "conservative" sentiment. For instance, it's usually not conservatives who complain about the "loss of Main Street" or "gentrification," for instance. (I highly recommend reading the short story "Jeffty is Five" by Harlan Ellison.)

[tjhoenecke]

@tommytoploader Oh, the actor who plays the hero here is James Farentino, Dan Lauria was the actor who played Fred Savage's father on the Wonder years.

[IDMWEIGHTSIDM]

go jesus LOL

[BloodylocksBathory]

@lampyman101 LOL all three of them are horror freaks. IDK if it's on the UK dvd, but the copy I watched of The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special includes snippets from a VERY cheap production of their own horror anthology. Including a very blatant Don't Look Now reference lol.