10 Best Video Nasties (And Why They Were Banned)

In the sleepy town of Potter's Bluff, Sheriff Gillis is investigating a spate of murders, when the deceased victims start to reappear alive and well. Something strange is going and all signs point to the local morgue.

With a script from Dan O'Bannon (Alien) a cast including Freddy Kruger himself, Robert Englund, and effects from Stan Winston, Dead and Buried has all the ingredients of a hit.

Intentionally or not, the film invokes classic British horror cinema from its coastal setting, all overcast skies and creeping fog, to its relaxed pacing and narrative focus on investigation - all of which may have played a part in why it didn't find an audience at the time.

Dead and Buried was seemingly harking back to a bygone era, while efforts like Last House were pushing boundaries into new and unsafe territory. Still that's not to say it doesn't have its share of grisly moments too, certainly enough to have someone at the BBFC clutching at their shears.

Censors snipped Dead and Buried by 30 seconds. Ocular trauma was clearly a bugbear of theirs because here they cut yet another scene where a victim is stabbed in the eye and also trimmed another where a victim is burned.

In 1999 the uncut film reappeared on video store shelves and in recent years it has earned something of a cult status.