I BURY THE LIVING, 1958, Goodtimes Video, Directed by Albert Band, Starring Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer.

This modest little production was probably made to run as a second feature at drive-in double features. Richard Boone plays a newly appointed cemetery caretaker. There's a map of the graveyard with white pins marking sold but unoccpupied plots, and black pins indicating plots whose owners have run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. Boone accidently marks a newly purchased plot with black instead of white, and suddenly (Twilight Zone theme please) the plot owners turn up dead.

I was a bit put off by the fact that the letter "G" appears in the lower right hand corner of the screen throughout the tape. No doubt this is Goodtimes Home Video's answer to those annoying station logos that a lot of cable channels seem to run perpetually. By the end of the movie, though, I barely knew it was there. Still, it's a bit presumptuous of a video company to intrude upon a film like that.

Despite the lurid poster art that adorns the video box, this is more of a supense film than a horror movie. It's got its moments though, and I recommend a viewing.


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