I Bury the Living (1958)
1958 · Feature film · 77 min · dir. Albert Band
Out of a Time-Rotted Tomb Crawls an Unspeakable Horror!
- Mystery
- Horror
Synopsis
The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain map. When nobody believes him, he risks his sanity to play God once again and prove his point.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Albert Band
- Writer
- Louis Garfinkle
- Composer
- Gerald Fried
- Cinematography
- Frederick Gately
- Studio
- Maxim Productions
- Released
- 1958-07-01
- Running time
- 77 minutes
Cast & crew
Albert Band Director
Richard Boone
Theodore Bikel
Herbert Anderson
Robert Osterloh
Howard Smith- Peggy Maurer
Russ Bender
Glen Vernon
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Great Score · inselpeter · 2010-12-19
Jazz variations on an old round.
★★★★ · Don't let the title fool you here · Dr Feel Rotten · 2010-12-18
This movie is MUCH better than most movies with similar type titles and I'm not really completely convinced this is really horror so much as a good, solid mystery. Richard Boone gives a very solid performance here. it's to bad they hung this crappy title on it.
★★★★ · Twilight Zone on steroids? · Vic Demise · 2010-12-27
It strted a little slow, but never lost my interest, and just gets better. Some fun visual effects and a VERY good performance really makes it work. (I do believe that's Dennis the menace's father in a supporting role)
★★★★ · A GEM INTERESTING PLUS ! · SQuiRMiN' VeRMiN' · 2011-05-27
THIS FILM STRUCK ME AS AN UNKNOWN GEM.IT IS HORROR/MYSTERY, WITH AN EXPRESSIONISTIC QUALITY TO IT. DARK, SPOOKY, ATMOSPHERIC, CHAOTIC,(in a good way). IT SEEMS IF IT HAD A KNOWN "HORROR ACTOR" OF THE TIME IN THE LEAD IT WOULD HAVE GONE DOWN AS ONE OF THEY'RE BEST (KARLOFF, PRICE?). RICHARD BOONE IS GREAT. (I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY IT IS ONE OF HIS BEST ?)BUT THOSE THAT LIKE MR.BOONE MIGHT NOT LIKE THIS, AND THOSE THAT LIKE THIS KIND OF FILM MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET "PALADIN" OUT OF THEIR MINDS
★★★★ · Better than you'd think · Victor Von Psychotron · 2013-09-25
This is an intriguing little thriller with good performances throughout it. Richard Boone does a great job, as does Theodore Bikel. The make-up on Bikel is quite good, making him appear much older than he was when this was filmed.
★★★★ · Great Gerald Fried Score! · Count David · 2022-11-22
The score is fine! It anticipates some of the music that Gerald Fried would later compose for the original Star Trek TV series. His score for the "Catspaw" episode echoes his score for this movie.









