9/8/2023 0 Comments Slasher monk dead space![]() Lewis’s The Monk, and Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho. A good.not great.film that is good for some honest scares.Horror fiction arose in the late eighteenth century with such works as Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, Matthew G. His entrance down a hillside in the coroner's car while playing big band music was a scenic highlight for me. Albertson gives a fine performance and is suitably creepy. The supporting cast with Barry Corbin, Robert Englund, and a host of familiar faces do very nicely, but the real star is Jack Albertson in one of his last roles. Farentino is good in his role and Melody Anderson is adequate(certainly attractive) in her role as his wife. There are definite frightening moments in the film that will make you jump in your seat. The film looses some credibility with the ambiguous nature of the script but is enhanced by the atmospheric direction of Sherman and the quality performances by the cast as a whole. ![]() Farentino soon realizes that few if any can be trusted in the not-so-quaint New England town of Potter's Bluff, and that the cause of the deaths and the mystery soon fall on town mortician Jack Albertson. ![]() The story centers on these deaths and their investigation by sheriff James Farentino. ![]() One man is beaten and burned(later to survive and get needled in the worst possible way), another is beaten and marred with fishing hooks, another hacked to death, another with acid, and you get the general picture.and you get all the details as Sherman is not shy showing us these things with the camera lens either. Like most of Sherman's films, Dead & Buried is laced with a rather large dose of gore. Neat seldom talked about horror film made by Gary Sherman, the man who brought us Deathline, Vice Squad, and Poltergeist III. ![]()
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