 Thank you for checking out this no spoilers movie review. This is for the 1981 film Whoops dead and buried. I forgot. This is why I have notes just in case Yeah, the 1981 film dead and buried which at the time I'm recording this is available for Streaming on the shutter streaming service. This is a Gary Sherman film Now a lot of people know Gary Sherman as a director But the things he's known for that he did raw meat also known as death line, which I do have saved On shutter in my list to watch it was recommended to me at one point and poltergeist three So there you go. So Gary Sherman getting it done So dead and buried is actually not a film I've really heard of even though it's an 80s film and I actually kind of liked it Like I thought it was a is a pretty solid film And I've never heard anyone talk about it like ever so I was kind of surprised when I checked it out And I was like, this is actually good. Why has no one ever said anything about this? So I don't know So this film is actually based on a novel by a woman by the name of Chelsea Quinn Yarbrough Just throwing that out there and Jack Albertson is in this film a lot of people were probably like I don't know who Jack Albertson is and I didn't really know who he was either until I looked into it And he was grandpa Joe in the original Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory And he has a he does a really good job in this film I will actually say that he is the strongest actor with the most enjoyable performance in dead and buried So look out for Jack Albertson if you're gonna check out this film. He does a delightful job in this in his role So this movie actually starts and it's very terribly boring in the very very beginning like for the first bunch of minutes Maybe like first like five minutes or so and then all of a sudden it gets very real very fast and quite interesting and you're just like Okay, you got my interest. Let's uh proceed Because it starts just like so excessively mundane and slow and I was just like Oh, no, this is not a good sign. What is going on here? And then all of a sudden it's just like boom Now something's happening. Now you're interested. Let's get engaged and go through this thing So I really like how they did that twist kind of real fast Um, so the setting of this is kind of like a small town type thing and that's one of the main themes behind it But uh, it definitely feels like a small sleepy coastal town And I think it's supposed to be in Rhode Island if I'm not mistaken I at one point there was a reference to Providence Rhode Island So I don't know if this is supposed to be close to Providence Uh, but I think it's supposed to be in Rhode Island So it they did a really good job of actually making it look and feel like a sleepy Northeastern coastal town. Um, and that's a cool aesthetic. It really is and they also, um, had a bunch of fog in the film To to kind of bolster that and here comes the fog rolling in off the ocean Uh, and it just kind of feels that way But having it appear to be a very sleepy coastal town actually makes it seem very desolate as well Which really helps with this actual story that they're trying to tell It also makes it seem more kind of creepy scary if it looks a little more empty a little more desolate A little more dead if you will Uh, there's a there's a constant foggy haze which adds to the ambiance like I was saying Uh, Robert England is in this by the way in a very very small role But he does have some dialogue and it's always always a joy to see Robert England especially a younger version of Robert England because most people just know him as Freddy Krueger, but FYI, he's done other films people. He has I'm just saying uh, so There was one of the things I really thought about because because sometimes when I'm watching films I'll see something in the film and that makes me think past that to other films as well And in this instance, there was a a guy who was drunk in the film or you know acting drunk in the film And it just reminded me that when drunk drunkenness is portrayed in films Especially in films, you know, like pre-2000s. It's very campy. It's very over the top It's it's like crazy exaggerated And that's really on display in this film when that drunk guy is happening. You're just like people who are drunk Don't act that way. It's not that over the top. It's not that comedic and ridiculous But it just made me think that like overall that is something that happens people when they're acting drunk don't really act drunk very well It's not very, um, convincing if you ask me Everything seems very desolate in this even a hospital And that's kind of when I started really thinking about how desolate everything seemed in the film Is when there's a scene inside of a hospital and there's like nobody in the hospital pretty much it's like three people I think maybe four and then it's just like Who's running this hospital? Do they have patients? Is it just that nobody gets hurt? And maybe that's actually part of the story I don't know But it does add to the overall feel which I really like um And it makes I wrote that it makes it seem like the the town is hollow Because you know hollow halls everywhere Uh, the acting delivery of one of the characters by the way Really tips the hand of the story in this film and it's pretty early on So hopefully if you're watching this film, you don't pick up on that But there's the the acting style of this one person their delivery is so um How do I want to put it? I wouldn't necessarily say it's bad. It's just giving things away. It's it's very much like Like heavy heavy heavy winking and I really don't think they should have allowed that the director definitely gary Sherman Definitely should have allowed that he should have reshot that numerous times and be like look We want to maintain some mystery in this. We don't want people being able to know At least a portion of what the end story is going to end up being when we try to do a big reveal Because you want that big reveal to have impact obviously and with what this Character was doing. I was just like I'm pretty sure I know one of the big things that's going to be revealed in this Because of this person's acting that delivery is just awful for this So that's really something that was bothersome to me. I was like what was happening. I was like Really? We're doing this? okay um almost everyone in this film asks acts Suspicious which actually really helps withholding this Tension throughout the film because it's like it's that kind of thing. It's like Who's a problem person who's not like who can I trust who can I not trust is someone just gonna all of a sudden? You know kill somebody like what's going on who's good who's bad type of thing? And um, I think that plays very strongly into what the overall story is So I really like that aspect of it Uh, one of the other things that hit me with this film is they need a warning in the beginning because there's a lot of Well, not a lot, but a decent amount of scenes where there's like severe flashing lights So they need that epileptic warning like if you have seizures if you have epilepsy Uh, you might want to be warned because there's gonna be some crazy flashing lights in this And I was like me personally. I was turned off by it It was a lot because it was like flashing lights like right into the camera. So you're just like So I was watching on my laptop, which is what I record these videos on and like the entire screen is just like flashing and I'm just like It's crazy The the practical uh, so the practical effects are good in some of this like really good in some of this, honestly Especially considering that it was 1981 um And there's some really gruesome kills in this like when the practical effects are really good It's for really gruesome deaths or or or maims or kills and it's just It's pretty enjoyable for that reason. I was very very very impressed with the level of practical effects for this And like I said for 1981 especially I was pretty pretty impressed Uh, the film kind of speaks to complicated relationships that humans have with death Uh, there's this kind of dichotomy of like fear versus fascination with death And I think it kind of you know, like that's a theme to this film like the overall story hints at this You know how people do feel conflicted with that like they they have an interest about death But at the same time they're very much afraid of it, which you know as a human being I can definitely understand that And I'm sure everyone watching this can as well Uh, so I found that very interesting And it also speaks to the fear of thinking that you know people and you really don't and to a degree in this Film also thinking that you know yourself personally and you don't necessarily and kind of the The shock and and the how everything gets turned on its head once you find out that you know People aren't who you think they are or you aren't who you think you are um I mean, it's about the worst version of discovery discovery of other other people discovery of yourself And uh, that's a very real thing So I really like how the theme and the story ties into that real life struggle. So Yeah, so that's kind of uh, that's it for me not a not a super long review Um, because the film I mean the pacing is a little slow-ish, but I think it actually works It's not too long. I think it's like an hour and a half film which makes sense for horror films. So, yeah so anyway, um Looking at this film on a five star scale with half stars in play I'm gonna give it I think I'm gonna have to just give it a solid three I was kind of between a three and a three and a half But I think it's a little more towards the three than it is the three and a half. So If I did quarters, I would do a three and a quarter But three stars on this one I would recommend checking it out just because I think it's worth seeing once especially because of uh, who's jack albertson Yeah jack albertson's performance. Plus, um, it's kind of funny If you're a big fan of the old willy wonka and the chocolate factory to see grandpa joe Being someone totally different. He's actually a mortician in this and he's very enjoyable So, um, but it's just funny to be like grandpa joe mortician grandpa joe mortician So anyway for for no other reason than that just check it out But it is a solid film. So thank you everyone for checking this out. Please do me that favor I always ask for it. But if you're holding off on doing it, please don't because it means a lot to me and it It's not a inconvenience to you. Just hit that subscribe. Just a second of your time. I would appreciate that Anyway, put some comments down there. Are you familiar with dead and buried? What is your idea? Or what is your feeling on this film because like I said, I didn't really hear anything about this film from anyone Ever so I would like to hear from some people right now. Have you seen this and what are your thoughts on it? Am I alone in thinking this is actually worth seeing? I don't know. 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