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I Bury the Living

Year: 1958
Classification: Horror

Directed:
- Albert Band

fine cult flick

This stylish cult flick casts Richard Boone as a man who may have the power to control life and death.
Inheriting the post as chairman of the Immortal Hills cemetary, Robert Kraft (Boone) is intrigued by the detailed map which shows the location of all occupants of the cemetary. Two sets of pins are used; black for occupied graves and white for graves that are reserved for the inevitable.
Accidentally using black pins to mark the graves for a newly-married couple instead of white, he is shocked to discover that they died within hours of visiting the cemetary.
Feeling strangely responsible for the tragedy, he randomly changes another pin to test the notion. When the owner of the grave dies, Kraft is forced to test his theory again...and again...
Fairly standard cult film, with some marvellous, Hitchcock-like touches.
With Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer, Howard Smith, Herbert Anderson and Robert Osterloh.

A well-mounted, underated chunk of entertainment

So, I suppose you've never heard of this film, RIGHT? Well, I guess it's one of those films that have a brief cult status until everyone suddenly stops thinking about it for some unknown reason. Get what I mean?
Richard Boone gives a strong performance as a cemetary owner who has a map in his office of all the tombstones. If the tombstone has a white pin in it, it means that it's reserved; if it has a black pin in it, it means that a dead person already lies beneath the stone. Boone discovers that if he replaces the white pin with a black pin, whoever reserves it automaticly snuffs it. So the map is like one, big voodoo doll.
I BURY THE LIVING is very original for it's time (which is probably why not many people pay attention to it). It's a throughly enjoyable film which has a couple of effective moments.

I Bury the Living

Although you'll find it listed under "Horror/Thriller," about the only claim I BURY THE LIVING has to the genre is its provocative title and lurid tagline: 'A creature to freeze your blood! A story to chill your soul!'BR> The creature referred to must be Robert Kraft (Richard Boone), president of Kraft's Department Stores and newly selected committee chairman of Immortal Hills Cemetery. The cemetery's caretaker is Andy McKee, played in not very convincing aged makeup and with a Scottish brogue by veteran character actor Theodore Bikel. McKee introduces Kraft to The Map. The Map displays all the plots in the graveyard and their owners - a white pin in the map means that person is still alive, a black pin means they're dead. On his first day on the job Kraft mistakenly puts a pair of black pins where white ones ought to be and the owners of the plots die. When he replaces a third white pin with a black and THAT owner dies, all sorts of mayhem ensues.BR> Richard Boone is effective in what is nothing much more than a longish Twilight Zone episode. Rather than a slime creature carting off the living to their final rest I BURY THE LIVING sprays a mist of sweat on Boone's forehead and follows his descent into madness. Well, that may be overstating it a bit, but he does have to wrestle with an inner demon that seemingly gives him the power of life and death over people. At least he believes it's so, long after the audience has cast skeptical eyes at more likely suspects. BR> You'll have to stretch credibility to the breaking point to accept the premise of this movie and stretch it again some more to accept its resolution. I BURY THE LIVING doesn't deliver many shocks or thrills, but it does offer some fine performances, especially by Boone.

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