Nonureva Really Surprised!

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

hoyayer What a scary little confection built totally around the power of clans, clannishness, and tribalism to take over one's mind. It's definitely not safe to stray too far from the social compact that binds a community together.

snicewanger I Bury The Living is a very entertaining little "B" chiller that benefits from a strong performance by the always reliable Richard Boone and it was Boone's only foray into the horror genre.Louis Garfinkle wrote and produced the film, and Directed by Albert Band. Frederick Gately was the cinematographer. Clocking in at 77 minutes it moves at along at a quick pace. If there is a weak spot in the movie it's Austrian actor Theodore Bikels attempt to play the the Scottish cemetery caretaker Andy McKee. With his heavy makeup causing him to look like Captain Kangaroo, he struggles with a Scottish burr in his voice that brings unintentional chuckles to the proceedings. The story concerns Robert Kraft played by Boone who has been appointed the manager of Immortal Hills Cemetery. Kraft comes to believe he has been cursed with the power of live and death over the cemetery plot owners when several of them die after the white pins signifying unoccupied graves are replaced with black pins signifying occupied graves on the cemetery plot map. Boone essays Krafts dissent into an emotional quagmire with a calm but inevitable resolve. The horror takes place in Krafts mind.If you are a blood and gore fan, forget it. This one is a a physiological scare for the imagination.

Darkling_Zeist Hugely effective, 50's B-horror from one of Hollywood's most prolific genre producers. Suspenseful, paranoiac and downright eerie, 'I Bury The Living' is everything one could wish for from a modestly budget horror quickie. Basic premise has Richard Boone's character discovering he literally has the power of life and death, via the implausible, but fun conceit of sticking pins into a well-worn cemetery schematic. It's the film's palpable sense of hysteria and claustrophobia that leaves such a deep and lasting impression; and while, Albert Band is clearly no Jacques Tourneur, Band still manages to eek out maximum mileage from such a simple, yet eerie premise.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** The movie "I Bury the Living" almost buried actor Richard Boone's career which was only saved by his hit TV show "Have Gun Will Travle" that not only was being broadcast at the same time this turkey was released to the theaters, in 1958, but in it making most people forget that he had anything to do with that acupuncture, in the brain, like horror movie.Bob Kraft, Richard Boone, who runs the very successful Kraft Department Store in downtown Milford is put in charge of the Kraft Family cemetery The Immortal Hills as part of his duties as a member of the Kraft Family. A problem that Kraft soon faces in the forced retirement of the cemetery's Scottish crypt keeper Andy McKee, Theodore Bikel, who despite getting a full pension for his 40 years on the job just can't stay from the stiffs that he's been burying and attending to all these long years.Really having nothing to do at the cemetery Kraft starts to play with the pins that indicated, on a large wall map of the cemetery, who's buried and who's to be buried in the graveyard and mistakenly sticks two black pins,indicating that their dead, in the reserved and white pin burial plots of Sturat & Liz Drextel,Glen Vernon & Lynette Bernay. The next day Kraft gets the shocking news that the couple were killed in a car crash and are dead as the black pins indicated that they are! It's when again by mistake Kraft who seems to be bored to tears in his new and dead end job as a cemetery attendant puts a black pin in the burial plot of toy maker William Isham, Cyril Delevanti,that the poor and marked, by the black pin, man keels over and drops dead of a sudden heart-attack at his home that very evening!With Kraft now feeling that he has, with his both white & black pins, the power of life and death he instead of not playing with his deadly and new found toys he's encouraged by his Uncle George, Howard Smith, and the board member of Kraft Inc. to play some more with them in order to prove that this deadly game of his is nothing but a coincidence and insist that he put the black pin on their white pinned burial plots in order to prove that! What in fact happens is that all three Uncle George Bill Honnegger and Charlie Bates, Ken Drake & Matt Moore, end up dead and Kraft starts to go out of his mind in feeling that he's the one responsible for their sudden and unexpected departures!***SPOILER*** The truth soon comes out to what's behind all these mysterious deaths and, surprise surprise, it had nothing to do with the supernatural at all! It was in fact someone very close to the Immortal Hill Cemetery, so close that he's almost buried in it, who took advantage of all this confusion on Kraft's part and like the saying goes made it all happen! It was when the cop on the case Lt. Clayborne, Robert Osterich, smelled something rotten at the Immortal Hill Cemetery, and it wasn't any one buried there, that he set the killer up by targeting someone who was to be buried there who was way of of the killers jurisdiction! And thus caused him to overplay his hand and slip us where his head soon ended up on a chopping block!