 Hello and welcome to today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten, but first, what are we drinking? Season of the Witch, my bog. Now, did this pretty hard the other night? We're going to be talking about 1981's Dead and Buried. Directed by Gary Sherman, and he did raw meat, mind the door! And he also did Poltergeist 3. James Farentino is in this, Lisa Blount is in this. She was in Prince of Darkness, of course. Robert England is in this, Jack Alberston is also in this, and he was Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory. Dead and Buried starts off with this photographer kind of on the beach in Potter's Bluff. He runs into this really good looking girl, starts shooting pictures of her, and it's like, ah, this is kind of a little too good to be true right now, right? Hey! Hey now! All these townspeople kind of crowd the beach, and they take this poor bastard and beat the shit out of him. They all whack his shins with a crowbar? Taking pictures of him as they're beating him, and they tie him to this post, and they burn the poor fucker alive. The police get called to the car accident that's happened on the highway. The Sheriff Dan Gillis shows up and see the poor guy burned in there. You think he's dead, and suddenly, ah, you guys start screaming! So Gillis goes to visit Dobbs, the coroner at his office. Did the burns happen from that accident, or was he burned elsewhere and placed in the car? Learn that Dobbs is a little eccentric, a little odd, loves his job, and he considers it an art. We then get shown this bum who's pissed out of his fucking face, swarmed again by the town's folk, and they take pictures of him and start killing him with these hooks. The Sheriff goes to the hospital to see this burned victim, a very terrifying image of this guy in the bed all bandaged up. And he's got no lips, you just see his teeth? Just before the Sheriff is led inside, the nurse shows up, and while you might recognize her, she's the girl from the beach. The Sheriff goes in to conduct his interview, the guy's dead, his lead is gone! The family is driving through this town, and they stop at this diner to get directions. And you kind of look around, and you see all the patrons and the employees, and it's all these people that you've seen taking the pictures at these burger scenes. One of the guys who actually helps them give directions is the guy who was burnt alive on the beach. So they're driving, and someone kind of runs in front of the car, and dad swerves, and he hits his post, and the kid all, uuughhhhhh, uuughhh, uuughhh. So they go to the nearest house to get help, and the house's abandoned, and it's all cobwebs, and it's a great dark atmosphere. All these people start entering the house with machetes, and all these weapons, and their cameras again, and they're taking pictures of this family, and the family tries to get out, and they eventually do. Town's folk gets on the hood of the car and starts like smashing the windshield. That same night, Dan Gillis is driving, accidentally hits a pedestrian. There's an arm that's been ripped off the guy's torso and stuck to his grill. And it's moving. This guy gets up, and takes his arm back, and runs off. He gets some scrapings off the grill of his vehicle. He takes it to the town doctor to get them analyzed. Dan Gillis gets the information back, and the little skin fragments and stuff are like four months deceased. He goes to the cemetery to dig up the grave of the guy who burnt alive in the car. Nobody's in the coffin. Dobbs comes up to him and starts complaining to him that there's a body missing from his morgue. And Dobbs is also very, very keen on covering it up. So he starts doing some digging on this Dobbs. It is wife. She gave him some footage, and he's taking it down to get developed. When he gets it back, he notices that his wife has been having an affair with somebody, but she ends up killing the fucking poor bastard. There's all the town's people around watching and taking pictures and sort of almost getting involved. And who is there is fucking Dobbs. Laughing and having a gay old time. Dobbs! He goes and confronts Dobbs about this fucking strange footage. That's where we're going to end it because the story continues to unravel. Which is one of the hallmarks about this movie is the actual story. It's so different. There's nothing like it. It's so original. It's so original. It's a small town. It's got some little secret, but it's a crazier secret than you'd ever expect. This harks back to the mind control voodoo zombies that are doing the bidding of a higher power. There's also the murder mystery aspect of it. You see who's doing it, but why are they doing it? The why is the big question. Why are they gathering in droves and taking pictures of people and murdering them? The atmosphere of this movie is really cool. It's dark and dreary and always cloudy and kind of raining. It almost feels dead. Exactly. The town does feel dead. The effects were done by the effects master himself, Stan Winston. He's done the thing. Terminator 2 aliens. Tons. The guys won multiple Academy Awards for his effects work. That's why these are so good. The burned body when he's hanging upside down. The car is like, ooh, that looks pretty goddamn real. The acid? Yeah. Pump the acid through the guy's nose and see his face melt? There's a really, really cool scene where it shows Dobb is preparing a body, time-blapsed and it shows him basically take the face apart and putting it back together again. It looks pretty fucking amazing. It looks fucking real. I know she's going to come back to life. Where's going to be the cut between this dummy and the actor? Yeah. It's like something she's blinking and like... It's like, what the fuck? CGI ain't going to do that. The acting for this movie too is just top notch. Yes. You believe everything that's happening in this town, right? Especially like the dynamic between the sheriff and Dobbs. Feel it. You know that they're supposed to be working together. But you feel the... Tension. You feel the tension, right? Exactly. Yeah. It's cool. Dobbs as being kind of the villain of the movie. He's great. When you find out what he's up to at the end and his motivation behind what he's doing, it's so original. There's nothing like it. It's totally put Dobbs as being very underrated movie villain. You don't really see it coming until like the very end, right? Dobbs! Which leads us to the perfect ending, twist to this movie, right? And it's a perfect payoff because you're never bored through the whole movie. No. You're also kind of riding this wave of like the investigation. And then at the end, it's like, oh my god, I saw all the clues throughout the whole movie. Yeah. Wicked. It was a crazy, cool twist at the end. It does everything to the best of its ability for 1981. For 1981. This movie has everything that a horror movie lover could ever want. So if you haven't seen Dead and Buried, please, please check it out. And it's funny because the name of the movie isn't really what the movie is about. It was a little misleading. But please check it out. And until next time, Keep drinking. Making golly's weird. Yeah, I know. It sounded like... Just drinking or something. Yeah, it sounded like water like jiggling around in your belly or something. I don't know what the movie is about.