10 Hidden Horror Movie Gems Nobody Talks About
9. Dead & Buried
One of the most underappreciated horror films of the entire 1980s - which is really saying something - Dead and Buried takes place in the coastal town of Potters Bluff, where a violent mob begins murdering tourists, only for said tourists' corpses to start coming back to life.
Co-written by Alien screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, Dead and Buried is a much smarter movie than its seemingly stock concept might suggest, with director Gary Sherman initially focusing less on grisly gore - though there's plenty of that too - than the sheer eeriness of a town becoming overrun with... something.
From the terrific ensemble cast to the brilliant effects - produced by the great Stan Winston - and a third act that pays everything off in inventive and wildly unexpected fashion, Dead and Buried is a diamond in the rough that desperately deserves reappraisal and rediscovery.
If John Carpenter's The Fog is by far the more famous movie, Dead and Buried is a superior rendition of a superficially similar idea.