Dead & Buried

Dead amp Buried is a 1981 horror film directed by Gary Sherman, starring Melody Anderson and James Farentino. With a screenplay written by Dan OBannon and Ronald Shusett, the movie was initially banned as a video nasty in the UK in the early 1980s, but was later acquitted of obscenity charges and removed from the Director of Public Prosecutions list.

James Farentino stars as Dan Gillis, sheriff of the small New England coastal town of Potters Bluff. In the films opening scene, a mob of townspeople attempt to kill a visiting photographer. He is beaten, tied to a post then set on fire. He survives and is taken to a hospital, where he is murdered just out of sight of the sheriff and the doctor.More visitors are murdered by the townspeople. Sheriff Gillis, assisted by Dobbs, the local coronermortician Jack Albertson, works hard to discover the motive for the killings. Gillis becomes increasingly disconcerted as a grisly death occurs every day. In each case, the killers photograph the victims as they are murdered. ........

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