The Living Corpse

Starring:Rehan, Deeba, Nasreen (II), Munwar Zarif, Latif Charlie, Habib, Asad Bukhari, Sheela (II), Cham Cham, Yasmine (IX), Baby Najmi, Ala-Ud-In
Director: Khwaja Sarfraz
Studio: Mondo Macabre
Product Type: DVD

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A great, silly zombie journey...
Kick & Awesome
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I Want Your Brain!
A good follow follow-up to the original ROTLD, but doesn't bring anything new

Return of the Living Dead Part II
Starring: Michael Kenworthy , Thor Van Lingen , Jason Hogan , James Karen , and Thom Mathews
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
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ASIN: B0002KQNL8
Release Date: 2004-10-05

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Curious kids open a barrel of green gas linked to a mysterious military experiment, and soon a tenebrous green cloud of fog is making its way through the creepy town cemetery. Knowing exactly where this is headed is, of course, part of the fun in this tongue-in-cheek zombie sequel. Maybe it's not as fresh as its successful predecessor, but all of the key zombie ingredients are still well preserved in this second installment: ravenous "undead" in search of human brains, severed limbs with a life of their own, and lots and lots of shrieking! Taking a hackneyed premise that is a close retelling of part I, director Ken Wiederhorn (Freddy's Nightmares, Shock Waves) rejuvenates the genre with sporadic genuine scares, lots of plain old silliness, and some literally eye-popping special effects. Followed up a few years later with the equally enjoyable Return of the Living Dead Part III, this is a fun franchise that reminds you of what '80s horror was all about: bad synth music, and perms. --Matt Wold

Description

Inquisitive kids release deadly gas from a misplaced military canister, causing corpses from a nearby cemetary to rise and wreak havoc.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Director Ken Wiederhorn and co-star Thor Van Lingen
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

A great, silly zombie journey..........2007-05-25

I actually like "Return of the Living Dead: Part II" better than the first. Though that could be considered blasphemous, this movie appealed more to me in my youth over the first, which I have finally come to accept as an outstanding zombie movie...

This edition features two of the same actors from the first in very similar buddy roles. The cast is pretty good, and the young boy lead is a strong performer for his age.

The movie is filled with zombie style laughs, including a cemetary rising scene that is super cool, but filled with cheesy laughs...

A must see in my opinion...

Kick & Awesome.......2007-05-12

The dvd came quickly...and came in better condition than i thought it would...would definitly do business again!!

Dissapointing.......2007-01-19

I'm a big fan of zombie movies, and the first return of the living dead was a very good zombie movie. This one, however, fails to scare nor hold your attention, and tries harder in my opinion to be funny instead of scary. The black humor is pathetic, espechialy compared to the first one. Had its interesting moments, but the movie as a whole was definitly below average.

I Want Your Brain!.......2006-10-13

This is not a George A. Romero project.
Directed and written by Ken Wiederman. Film contains profane language, gross bloody effects.
Thom Matthews returns as a different character, "Joey", James Karen returns as a different character, "Ed", Jonathan Terry returns as "Glover", Allan Trautman returns as "Tarman". Brian Peck returns as 5 different zombies, "Pussface", "Thriller", "Jaw", "Eye-Pop" and the zombie on the car roof.
A truck that is traveling across a bridge is carrying pressurized cases that contain cadavers. One case falls off the truck and ends up in the water. A group of kids find the case and triggers the gas inside that spreads across the cemetary. The living dead return.
Also in the cast: Thor van Lingen, Dana Ashbrook, Mitch Pileggi.
DVD only contains audio commentary and theatrical trailer.

A good follow follow-up to the original ROTLD, but doesn't bring anything new.......2006-08-16

1988 saw the release of Return of the Living Dead Part II. This film is a sort of sequel/reboot of the first film in that the story and even some of the characters bare too much of a similarity to the original film. Ken Weiderhorn both writes and directs this "sequel" and it shows. The film reuses alot of what made the first film a cult-classic amongst horror fans. Weiderhorn seems to be of the philosophy that if something ain't broke them don't fix it. What this does is make the film feel like a deja vu, and maybe that was his intent since two of the main characters in the film say pretty much the same thing. Despite all this the film itself is pretty good and stays true to the original, albeit with abit more humor and better effects work.

Reprising similar roles they had in the first film are James Karen as Ed and Thom Mathews as Joey. Both work as in the post-burial industry and moonlight stealing valuables from the privates crypts and mausoleum in the cemetary they're working in. Their characters act and almost have similar lines from Karen and Mathews' characters of Frank and Freddy in the first film. Karen as Ed goes over-the-top once the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas is let loose and the dead bodies in the cemetary begin to come back to life seeking live brains. It's these two characters who really keep the film from spiralling down to awful status. Even though their characters are similar to the original film, Karen and Mathews still bring a dose of great comedic timing and horror to the situation.

This time around the town has been safely evacuated by the military except for a few people who lived on the newly-built suburban housing area in the outskirts. It's these survivors who must try and find a way to defeat the zombies and at the same time convince the military blockading the town that they're not infected. There's more action and comedy in this sequel. I think the comedy part of the film got way too much attention, but as I said earlier, Weiderhorn seems to think that if it worked in the original then it should work with more in this film. The effects work looks abit better and probably due to an increase in the budget.

In the end, Return of the Living Dead Part II never bring anything new to the original its following-up and pretty much reuses the same characters and situations. Weiderhorn does this to good effect and the finished product is an entertaining enough horror-comedy. Who knows how this sequel would've turned out if Russo had written it and O'Bannon back directing.

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A great double-dose of drive-in fun on movie night
Return to the Drive-In, again
Good Pick for "Bad" Movie Night
Horror At Party Beach
Our Family's favorite movie on DVD!!! Hooray

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Starring: Del Tenney
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ASIN: B000C65YHG
Release Date: 2006-03-28

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Horror of Party Beach "Weird atomic beasts...who live off human blood!" prey in the 1960s cult classic once referred to as "The First Horror Monster Musical." A drag race between hot rodders and bikers winds up at a swingin' rock-and-roll beach party. Nearby, a barrel containing radioactive waste is unloaded from a passing ship, and plunged to the bottom of the sea. When it splits against a jagged rock, black liquid oozes onto a human skull. Suddenly, a vicious monster slowly twitches into life, and THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH is born! Curse of the Living Corpse In the true "Old Dark House" tradition comes THE CURSE OF THE LIVING CORPSE, an early gore pic known as one of the first "slasher" films ever made! New England, 1892. Family patriarch Rufus Sinclair has recently died and is comfortably resting in his crypt ? or is he? His bickering relatives assemble at the Sinclair estate for the reading of his will, which includes a number of strict demands to be followed to the letter. If not, Sinclair threatens to return to life and kill each of them in the manner that they fear most! Naturally, no one listens to the ominous warning and one by one, the murders occur in the most grotesque methods imaginable!

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A great double-dose of drive-in fun on movie night.......2007-05-26

I intended to purchase these movies seperately, but if they were offered in a combo, then even better! In the special features there is a photo of a marquee over a cinema complex. These movies actually did show together as a double feature. I will review each movie seperately.....

Horror at Beach Party is a great old monster flick. A beach party is put to a halt after a girl is killed by a radioactive monster. Man that beach party was rockin' too. Check out some of those dancers, like the dude dancing in his Euro-underwear, what a fairy. Biker gang leaders danced back then too. And the band was awesome, on rhythm guitar looked like Buddy Holly's little brother. And the lead singer rocked, it's amazing how loud his voice was with no microphone. Come to think of it I didn't see any guitar amps either. Oh well. The monsters came about from a barrel of toxic waste that was dumped overboard and opened on top of a shipwreck. The monsters look a little like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, but with Cookie Monster eyes and these ginat hotdogs shoved in their mouths.

They need human blood to survive, but it seems they prefer female blood. That is why the attack all girl slumber parties, and New York girls on a road trip. But never fear, a scientist figures out how to kill them. He ignores the advice of his Aunt Jemimah housekeeper ("It's voodoo, dat's wut it is") and discovers that th emonsters can be killed by sodium. So the climax of the movie is sodium being thrown at mutants and watching them explode. Now I know that if you touch pure sodium it burns, so they must have made grenades or something.

Curse of the Living Corpse is a great flick. This is your daddy's slasher flick. A rich dude named Rufus dies and demands certain criteria for his funeral and burial. He was terrified of being alive, so he left instructions that his vault be left unlocked, the torches are always lit, etc. Of course his family ignores all this because they are in a hurry to have the will read. The will says that if his instructions are not followed, he will return and each of them will die in the way they fear most (drowning, fire, etc.) So of course a mysterious figure goes around killing people. There are some greta kills here, like the severed head breakfast platter. The nude drowning scene in the bathtub was probably watched very very closely by the sensors a couple of times. This is as close to a nude scene as you can get without it being a nude scene.

The reason I really wanted this movie was because Candace Holligoss was in it. I loved her in Carnival of Souls, and this is her only other movie. I can't believe such a beautiful woman did not make any more films. She is so hot. If you like her, you got to see her in this flick all decked out in her Victorian duds. She doesn't have a very big part, which was a little disappointing for me, but she makes the most of every bit of screen time. I am so used to her being in almost every frame of Carnival of Souls, that it was strange to see her in a movie that did not revolve around her.

So anyway, you get two great old movies on one SINGLE sided DVD. Fire up the player, make the popcorn and have a great Saturday night on the couch with your honey!

Return to the Drive-In, again.......2007-04-18

I love this set! "The Horror Of Party Beach" was one that I loved as a boy and even if it hasn't improved with age, it's still great fun and "Dig That Monster Suit Baby"!
"The Curse Of The Living Corpse" is one that hold a very special place with me as it was one of the first movies that caught me up in the plot so much that I wouldn't leave from in front of the T.V. til a commercial came on. One of the first "slasher" movies, it still holds up well and will have you guessing right up to the slam-bang ending.
All in all a great deal and two very fun movies.

Good Pick for "Bad" Movie Night .......2007-01-10

This Del Tenney feature is amazingly creative for its time and the special effects were resourceful. Now that the theme, format & techniques are outdated and (greatly) improved- the film provides a fun peek at the past. Not only are the old styles & lingo embarassingly laughable, the occassional costume & continuity gaffes just add to the entertainment. Great to enjoy with a few friends & good wine or as party background.

Horror At Party Beach.......2006-11-07

Well this film brings back memories of watching the televison show Creature Features with host Bob Wilkins. The film Horror At Part Beach was a staple film of the show. The film's creatures are as scary as I remember them as a kid. This film is a cult classic. And should be part of every horror fans collection... I just love the film... Thank God I found this film. I had been searching for it for a couple of years and was happy to finally see that Amazon was offering not only Horror At Party Beach, but all of Del Tenny's Films. What a treat!

Our Family's favorite movie on DVD!!! Hooray.......2006-06-14

In the early 60's my cousins and I sat on blankets at a Stamford Connecticut Drive-In to see the "Horror Of Party Beach". We were there because we knew that our Uncle Ed and Henry were not only extras but had actual speaking parts. In the interview with Del Tenney he mentions how he let the actors "act" with minimal direction. My uncles were not professional actors but electrical engineers that took the work between jobs. It's sad that they didn't get in the credits. Ed was a creditable detective (he had a detective type hat and a skinny tie). He investigated the first murder and told the inspector that the killer must have come from the sea (or Long Island Sound). When the inspector scoffed at that report, Uncle Henry (as a scientific type) jumped to his defense and speculated that it might have been "A wild shark or something".

We often wondered that if a young Steven Spielburg had been inspired to bring Jaws to the screen after seeing this scene. This is fine movie, but you need a "Strong Heart and Nerves of Steel" to watch it

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Not As Bad As I Thought It Would Be
Loved It
part 1 and 2 way better !!
Among the Best of the Best!!
The army shouldn't play with dead things...but plucky teens should!

Return of the Living Dead 3
Starring: Kent McCord , James T. Callahan , Sarah Douglas , Melinda Clarke , and Abigail Lenz
Director: Brian Yuzna
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ASIN: B00005LQ0Z
Release Date: 2001-08-28

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Not As Bad As I Thought It Would Be.......2007-03-27

I expected a movie of abominable quality when sitting down to watch it, but was a bit surprised at some of it's good points. I won't go into too many specifics here, but some thought was put into character interaction in this film and plot resolution. Some of the acting wasn't that good and there were some holes in the story, but this certainly wasn't as bad as a ROTLD sequel could have been -- it makes for a good Sci-Fi channel movie.

Loved It.......2007-01-29

It was hard for me to find this film, so when I ordered it on Amazon I wasn't disappointed. The product came exactly as described, the film was excellent for being a third chapter in the series. I recommend this film to every horror fan out there.

part 1 and 2 way better !!.......2007-01-17

1st, acting is not that good and affex arent that good either.Buy part
one and two but dont bother bying part 3.

Among the Best of the Best!!.......2007-01-17

Return of the Liveing Dead 3 I must say is among the best of zombie movies. It takes a total different direction then the first 2 Return movies but pretty much same story line. It not az ombie movie with comedy. It actually take a serious approach to it. The just of the movie is, at this point the military is useing the zombies to make some sort of super soldier for warfare. There trying to make it were the can some how control the zombies as much as they can. The director of the products son steals his keycard to get into the military base. The son and his hot girlfriend goes onto the base and catches a glimpse of the experiment. They leave though before they can see the experiment go terribly wrong. Okay then the son and his girlfriend get in a wreck were this red headed beauty is killed by a broken neck when she is thrown from the bike into a pole. The son brings her back to the miltary base were he brings her back to life. This starts the whole mess, and probably the birth of the best zombie I have ever seen. She is hott, dead and she pierce's her self and cuts her self to take the pain of the hunger away. Anyway my skills of telling ya the just of this movie sucks. All I can say is I came out knowing I watched a good horror flick, and I was sporting a giant rod. I give this move two rods up for its good direction that kept me watching and the hott dead chick. Go head give a try you won't be dissapointed.

The army shouldn't play with dead things...but plucky teens should!.......2007-01-02

If gore and comedy are your preferred combo, this seemed a passable treat. I caught it on cable, so I'm sure I missed plenty of the former. The first attack in the army base was actually pretty nasty and tense, well-filmed with the contrast between the stark white and the hideous blue/grey of the zombie. But once they're running around and the kid tries to keep his undead girlfriend under control, it was pretty laugh out loud funny.

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A lost gem given the good ole DVD treatment....
I want to clear one thing that actually tricked me !
Wow!
More of a "dead doll" ...

Living Doll
Starring: Mark Jax , Katie Orgill , Gary Martin , Freddie Earlle , and Marcel Grant
Director: Peter Mackenzie Litten , and George Dugdale
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Release Date: 2005-07-26

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Medical student Howard is a troubled young man. He is in love with the beautiful Christine, the girl who sells flowers at the hospital where he works. Unfortunately she barely knows he exists. Then, one night, the body of an accident victim is brought into the morgue. To his horror, Howard discovers it is the body of Christine...

Unable to believe that she is really dead, Howard takes the body back to his apartment. Suddenly Christine starts to talk, asking Howard to take revenge on all the people who caused her death.

With stunning SFX from Paul Catling of Hellraiser fame, this is one of the most unusual love stories ever told

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A lost gem given the good ole DVD treatment...........2005-09-02

Howard is an introverted medical student, studying pathology, who's in love with cute-as-a-cup-cake Christine. Trouble is that Christine doesn't know, or even care, who Howard is and before our lovelorn protagonist can make the "big" move his object of desire is dead. Howard finds out the devastating news while keeping the "red eye" at the morgue and is ordered to assist in performing the autopsy. From this point the tone of "Living Doll," and Howard's mental capabilities, take a discouraging turn and along with Howie the viewer tumbles and fumbles forever downwards into a pit of stark raving madness and mayhem.

Things seem pretty hopeless for poor Howard. His best friend can't help him, his boss is a conniving slave driver and his landlady is constantly sticking her nose in his business. Howard's only comfort is knowing he's taken Christine's corpse back to his rathole apartment and she patiently awaits him. The fact his paramour's body is stinking and rotting hardly deters Howard from carrying on with their love life, and so he does. Howard talks with Christine and dines with Christine. Howard even marries Christine and summarily consummates the union as all good newlyweds should.

The more this craziness continues the more vexing things become for Howard and the film races to a shock and surprise ending. A surprise ending that will have fans of the genre tickled pink and wondering why they'd never heard of this little gem called "Living Doll." One can only wonder what would have happened had Lucky McKee's "May" met our new friend Howie the morgue attendant.

To no one's surprise the exploitative details of "Living Doll" are glowingly obvious and painted all about; nudity, partying, gore, etc., are slathered, without pretense, across the screen. Regardless, the directors' impressive trajectory, crossed with Paul Catling's ("Hellraiser") imagined and sickening special FX, coalesce fittingly with the arresting on-screen talents of lead actor Mark Jax. Altogether this charged cinematic concoction fires and fuels the film heads-n-shoulders above the drekk that it may have been in the hands of lesser qualified folk.

Being no stranger to DVD extras, Mondo Macabro got really busy and included: interviews with the cast and crew as well as a documentary involving the film's producer Dick Randall, trailers, stills and an interesting short film by "Living Doll" author Paul Hart Wilden entitled "Horrorshow."

I want to clear one thing that actually tricked me !.......2005-08-10

What it was is how on the back cover it says the dead girl starts telling the guy to take revenge on everyone that killed her, well that isnt exactly true. She tells him towrd the end to kill her boyfirend that was in the car when the accident they got into killed her. I just want to clear that up so people dont expect some type of slasher flick, but what you can expect is a sick twisted love story of a man in love and living with a corpse as it rotts , he imagines the corpse talking to him as he cooks for it buys it clothes sleeps with it ( not seually , he does make out with it 1 time ). Overall the plot is good but at sveral points does drag and get boring but it still remains very wierd. I know this review is not to great but basically I just brought cause it sounded good and i was not really dissapointed that I did but its not a flcik i will watch tons of times, but I will watch it from time to time on some occasions. Bascally rent b4 you I wish I would have but since im stuck with it I will keep it. It really is notthat bad a good story line pretty good acting, like I said it does drag a bit but its worth a viewing you will have to see for your self.

Wow!.......2005-07-06

Dick Randall's last elegant paen to death! Mark Jaxx is superb as the twitching nervous Howard whose love for the local hospital flower girl takes him over the edge and into a relationship that couldn't be described as domestic bliss!

Watching Howard go about his day to day business with a slowly rotting corpse in tow is at times funny, at times tragic but Jaxx never camps it up.

Fantastic SFX too from Hellraiser guy Paul Catlin ... a great little movie and finally on dvd!

More of a "dead doll" ..........2005-07-04

I've seen "living doll"when it was relaeased on video many years ago.For a HORROR-movie it isn't that scary at all.
I wanted to see it,as a fan of Eartha Kitt, but very disapointedly she only had 3 oneliners to say in the entire movie.The movie itself I wouldn't rate even a B-movie, but it is fun: no more ,no less then that. The synopsis is about 2 guys, friends working in a mortuary.One of the friends is in love with the girl working at the flowershop nearby ,but is too shy to tell her of his love. When this girl is killed because of a car accident, she lands in the mortuary.This guy still in love, can't just let her go, eventhough she is dead.
He gets confused and digs the body up again after she's been burried and takes her to his rentroom,where he treats her like she's still alive.He buys his girlfriend sweets, and presents and clothing,even a brides dress... Ofcourse after some days the corpse produces a bad smell and so his landlady ( Eartha kitt) comes knocking at his door, one time for the money of the rent which he hasn't payed yet,another time because she hears him talking ,while he's not alowed to get visitors up.Another time because of the smell his room produces... See the movie , to know the end of it...

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BEST TRANSFER - GET IT WHILE YOU CAN
A Classic Of Its Kind.
Fantastic Flick......just don't bother to watch the last 10 min.
A wonderfully atmospheric thriller -- but the ending disappoints
This is what a Cartographer's nightmare feels like...

I Bury the Living
Starring: Richard Boone , Theodore Bikel , Peggy Maurer , Robert Osterloh , and Herbert Anderson
Director: Albert Band
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ASIN: B0000AGWN5
Release Date: 2003-10-07

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Newly appointed cemetery chairman Robert Craft (Richard Boone) notices some odd things about his new post: a creepy sense of déjà vu, an inability to get heat in the caretaker's shack, and Andy the caretaker's Scottish accent, one of the thickest in all cinematic history. Craft soon discovers to his horror that sticking pins into his map of the cemetery seems to make people die. As if this weren't bad enough, no one believes him. As Craft grows more and more distraught, his forehead covered in some of the most brightly glistening sweat you've ever seen, people keep trying to prove it's all a coincidence by getting him to stick more and more pins in the map. Though hilariously overwrought, I Bury the Living does take a couple of nice creepy twists at the end. Never before has a movie so eloquently made the case for keeping cemetery records in a text-only database. --Ali Davis

Customer Reviews:

BEST TRANSFER - GET IT WHILE YOU CAN.......2007-04-14

The Midnite Movies series from MGM has been out of print for some time now and with the various changing of the guards for ownership as well as distribution, you may never get another chance to pick up this Official Release of "I Bury The Living". Single title Midnite Movies are the rarest so get it while you can. Skip the public domain versions... you won't find a better transfer of this late night movie classic.

A Classic Of Its Kind........2006-12-17

Let me start out by saying that I use the term classic loosely. I consider this 1958 film a classic of its kind but that doesn't make it a "classic". However it follows honorably in the footsteps of 1940s film producer Val Lewton in the "less is more" category by using sight and sound rather than shock to create a profound sense of unease. It's a B movie all the way and clearly shows what can be done on a meager budget with that most valuable of resources...imagination. Richard Boone (just before he played Paladin in HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL) stars as a caretaker who discovers that he has the power of life and death by sticking black and white pins in a cemetery map. The film becomes increasingly nightmarish when Boone decides to reverse the pins with terrifying results. If you've read a few of the other reviews you know about the ending that everybody loves to hate. It attempts to put a logical as opposed to supernatural explanation on what happens much like the ending to Tod Browning's MARK OF THE VAMPIRE. The original ending (part of which is in the trailer) was meant to be supernatural but it was ultimately rejected. Despite the present ending, I BURY THE LIVING still has the ability to remain with you long after countless other "scarier" movies have been forgotten. Just ask Stephen King who talks about it in his book DANSE MACABRE. If it's B movie blood and gore you want than head for the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD but if you enjoy a literate script with TWILIGHT ZONE/ALFRED HITCHCOCK twists and turns, effective music, and solid performances then check this "classic" out. Be advised there are a number of low budget DVD versions out there but the one to get is the MGM Midnite Movies edition from 2001. It's no longer available new but there are plenty of used copies at good prices. The print quality and sound are the best available and give this little black and white gem its maximum impact.

Fantastic Flick......just don't bother to watch the last 10 min........2006-07-08

It's a 1958 black and white horror movie that IS WONDERFUL......up until the last 10 minutes. The movie drastically spirals downward after that point. Overall, it's a Must See!

It's the story of a man named Robert who becomes chairman of some dumb volunteer committee for the small town. Part of his new duties are to manage the cemetery, which he is informed will be about as time consuming as one afternoon a month.

Inside the cemetery's office is a large map that displays the grave plots. Plots marked with a white pin denote plots owned by living people, and plots marked with a black pin denote plots with a body buried in them. Likewise, plots without any pins are up for sale. I am pointing this out because the map is a key focal point during the entire movie.

On the first day of the job, Robert accidently marks two recently sold grave plots with black pins. That day, the couple who bought the plots are killed in a car accident. After that, anytime Robert marks a grave with a black pin, the person is destined to die. Later on, Robert tries to reverse the process with white pins...

The movie itself had a fantastic buildup. It's rare to find a movie that is THAT engrossing/enchanting/spellbinding/etc. I couldn't wait to find out how they would finish it. (And of course I was hoping to see some ghoulies or zombies). However, I think because of the great start and middle - the climax was very, very, very, very, disappointing. To put it ineloquently, the ending was crap! The writer was obviously trying (very poorly I might add) to finish it with a realistic approach and ended up ruining the entire effect.

I highly recommend watching this movie, and then turning it off when you get to the part where Andy McKee comes into the cemetery's office covered in mud. Let your imagination finish the scene. Just about anything would be better than how they ended it.

A wonderfully atmospheric thriller -- but the ending disappoints.......2006-05-03

I Bury the Living is one of many classic films that prove you don't need big money, big names, and big effects to achieve suspense or completely capture your audience's attention. I found the premise of this film quite intriguing, and the pace plays out just right as we descend further into the realm of the surreal as our protagonist inches closer and closer to possible insanity. It's unfortunate that all that commitment and effort was significantly offset by the ending. Personally, I thought the conclusion fell flat on its face. It's like going to Disneyworld, only to find a great big hole in the ground when you get there; you could squeeze the state of Texas through the plot hole at the end. I was all set to give this film five stars, and now I feel as if I'm being rather generous in giving it four.

The setup's rather simple. Robert Kraft (Richard Boone) is this year's chairman of the Cemetery Committee in town, which means it's now his responsibility to oversee the paperwork down at the Immortal Hills Cemetery. When someone buys a plot, you stick a white pin on the designated spot on the big cemetery plot map; when someone dies, you replace the white pin with a black pin. Doesn't really sound like a recipe for disaster, does it? When a couple of newlyweds show up wanting reservations for the hereafter, in go the white pins - then, when the couple dies soon thereafter, Bob is creeped out to find two black pins where the white pins should have been. He decides to pick a white pin at random, replace it with a black pin, and see what happens. Sure enough, that fellow falls over dead. Experimenting seems to be really popular in this little town, so a quick succession of pin replacements - and deaths - follows. Pretty soon, Bob starts wigging out, and the cops actually get involved - even though all of the deaths were seemingly due to natural causes.

Except for the ending, this film is great. The suspense really builds up, the writer keeps things interesting by giving you several things to think about in terms of your own theory, and there are some rather impressive visual effects. The big cemetery plot board is just weird in and of itself, as it sports some weird swirls that look like something in between a Dali-drawn bicycle and a distorted human face. The director uses light to great effect (an art form quickly lost once color became the norm), zooms in and out with the best of them, and basically just adds a Hitchcockian touch to it all.

Don't be fooled by the various posters and DVD covers, as you will find no real frights (and certainly no zombies) here. I would not classify I Bury the Living as a horror film at all - it's a suspenseful mystery/thriller. That's why, to some degree, I think you need to be a fan of classic B-movies in order to really enjoy this film. Otherwise, there's a chance you'll find it somewhat boring, as it's remarkably free of action, monsters, and fiends. While the building suspense is effective, it's not the kind of suspense that digs its claws into your arms, and there really is a sort of woodenness about each of the characters. I also have to believe that a number of people, B-movie fans or not, will be rather disappointed by the ending of this otherwise well-made film.

This is what a Cartographer's nightmare feels like..........2006-02-06

Marketing ruined this film. Think about this for a moment. The taglines to I Bury the Living have absolutely nothing to do with the actual film. The distribution team behind this feature was obviously trying to connect to the zombie fan-base when attempting to release this film. With taglines like, "A creature to freeze your blood!" and "A story to chill your bones" it becomes clear that the creators of this film did not realize the full potential of what they were sitting on. I Bury the Living is better than most zombie films and gives us a powerfully original story that will capture your attention and keep you guessing until the final moments. While most films will clutter the center of most films of this nature with meaningless love stories or idiotic secondary character development, I Bury the Living keeps us focused throughout the film on one centralized and intense character, Richard Kraft. By keep our attention based on this one man, we are able to feel the insanity beginning to creep up on this mild-mannered executive. Take this decent "B" acting and couple it with a director that knew, and felt passionate, about the story and a cinematographer that challenged the predetermined structure of most films like this during the 50s, and you have the collective body of I Bury the Living.

For me to sit here and say that the acting in this film was phenomenal would be a downright lie. This was a "Midnight Movie" special meaning that there was "B" grade actors attempting to break into the bigger Hollywood pictures. Typically, especially in today's horror/suspense genre in the independent arena, the acting is what generally hurts the film. You cannot create amazing special effects for your film if most of your money is going into bigger named stars, so this is why you see very original horror films coupled with terrible acting. In this film, it is a little better. Richard Boone is a decent lead that actually conveyed quite a bit of human emotion and fully demonstrated the obsessive nature surrounding the events. I believed in him both as an actor as well as a character. This is tough to pull off, but Boone did a decent job. He seemed like a regular "Joe" that was caught up in a supernatural force that he could not control. The character of Andy McKee (played by the energetic Theodore Bikel) was also another great character. What made I Bury the Living great was that the characters were simple, you didn't need this deep complex story to fully bring these guys to life, they did it themselves. They were fun, yet freaky instantaneously. This is a rare combination in modern Hollywood horror cinema.

While the acting was decent, it is the map that fully takes credit for stealing the film. While I have watched other films where inanimate objects rule the screen, this one was by far one of the best. The map in this film was spooky. It nearly had a face when you removed all the pins and backdrop. It felt, and looked, like a demonic face staring at you. It allowed this possessed feel to come through the television screen. Throughout the film I found myself staring at the map when the other characters were talking about the plot. The map was that engrossing and perplexing. I wished there were more discussed about this map, perhaps a back-story on its arrival to the cemetery or a quick opening on how it was made. Director Albert Band did a great job of giving the map the spotlight it deserved. He even did a fantastic job of bringing suspense to the pins which determined who would live and who would die. There were several scenes in which the camera lighting would shift, we would zoom into the marked plots, or follow the pin symbolizing death. This was extremely creative and effective tool used especially in the 1950s. It is hard to find films today that would use that type of emphasis on the elements, but Band was not afraid to experiment. That is why this film succeeded. It went beyond your typical suspense film and brought you an original tale that kept you engrossed until the final scenes. Even at that time, Band doesn't quite give you all of the truth, leaving some parts up to the imagination.

While I do speak very highly of this film, it wasn't perfect. I don't expect many horror/suspense films of the 50s to be unless big-budget Hollywood released them. With I Bury the Living, there could have been more dedicated to the plot. I couldn't help but laugh as I watched this film because Robert is causing these deaths by replacing white pins with black ones. Yet, after the second occurrence, nobody seems to believe him so they keep asking him to put more pins in. You would think that somebody would play the counter-conscious with Robert saying that if he does put another pin in the map, another will die. I think we needed a stronger bond between death and humanity. I didn't think Robert cared about those he was obviously marking for death. I especially saw this when the entire Board of Directors asks Robert to place black pins on their plots, then nearly following this horrific event, the police officer asks Robert to put another pin on the map. I would think that by this time Robert would be mad with obsession. I wouldn't think that he would want to do that again, but even with this minor sidestep, I Bury the Living is still a deeply conceptual film.

Overall, I thought this was a great early horror/suspense film that will play Parcheesi with your mind. The characters are strong and enjoyable (who doesn't enjoy a good Scotsman?); the plot needed some more work, but was carefully balanced out by the exceptional work by director Albert Band and his cinematographer. I didn't see the ending happening until the final door opened revealing the truth. It didn't overdevelop useless plot-points like love, secondary characters, or that annoying alien copout. I Bury the Living kept it simple, and it succeeded. I would not be ashamed to show this film to my friends on a dark and spooky night. For being created in the 50s, I believe this film could challenge the originality of some of the Hollywood hits today and find itself victorious each and every time!

Grade: **** out of *****

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Starring: Herbert Anderson , Theodore Bikel , Richard Boone , Cyril Delevanti , and Ken Drake
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Starring: Richard Boone; Tehodore Bikel; Peggy Maurer; Howard I. Smith
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A bone-chilling story of cemetary manager Robert Craft (Boone), a disturbed man who comes to believe that he is actually God. Robert discovers that when he sticks a black pin into a wall-sized map of the cemetary, he can cause the owner of that plot to die. After several such untimely deaths, Robert believes he has the power of life and death. But will Robert still believe this once he discovers the true secret behind these deaths?

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dracula with a unique, eastern, even Islamic flavour!
A Lost Vampire Classic That Should've Remained Lost

The Living Corpse
Starring: Yasmine (IX) , Nasreen (II) , Baby Najmi , Rehan , and Cham Cham
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El Vampiro (The Vampire) & El Ataud del Vampiro (The Vampire's Coffin) - 2 Disc Special Edition
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dracula with a unique, eastern, even Islamic flavour! .......2005-06-01

The age old dracula story - told from a perspective that western audiences might find somewhat indigestible.......fascinating nonetheless for world cinema enthusiasts and those particularly of horror films

A Lost Vampire Classic That Should've Remained Lost.......2005-01-17

After reading the encouraging reviews here on Amazon, I excitedly purchased this film hoping to find a truly unique genre classic. What a shock to discover that this 1967 Pakistani Dracula is a pirated version of Hammer Film's 1958 masterpiece, Horror of Dracula! Unlike other notable film "remakes" of the past such as, Sergio Leone's, Fistful of Dollars, (a literal westernization of Akira Kurosawa's sardonic samurai film, Yojimbo), The Living Corpse is sadly inept and amateurish in its execution.
Firstly, it is a black and white film set in current times that lacks the atmospheric impact of either Mario Bava's period monochrome classic, Black Sunday or Hammer's gloriously sumptuous colour work. (Horror of Dracula was nominated for a Best Color Photography Academy Award!)
Taking into consideration cultural acting differences, the performances are still strangely unconvincing and weird. Watch the brother as the Van Helsing character knife/stakes his sister!
Dance sequences in a Dracula film?!? Only Roman Polanski's, Dance of the Vampires really pulled that one off! With the exception of the first (yes-- first!) dance sequence in Corpse, the other three routines are jarringly edited into the story with almost no connection to the plot whatsoever! One routine is actually about how wonderful life is on the beach! And one dance is missing from the film according to the DVD features! To call the seductive solo female dancers "rubenesque" is a kind understatement! Ah well, to each his own!
All the major sequences and plot turns from Horror of Dracula are reconstructed in this movie right down to the camera set ups. Watch the first appearance of Dracula on the top of the stairs, Dracula in his coffin, close up of female vampire biting man's neck, etc. Film majors would be in for a treat if they double billed Horror of Dracula and Living Corpse; they would learn much about what makes good film making and what doesn't! It is indeed, an amazing feat to copy so much of a great movie and make it boring!
Now, the music... as incredible as it seems, director Sarfaraz has actually stolen all of the major musical cues from Hammer's Dracula as composed by James Bernard! His composer has tried to disquise this fact by superimposing creepy string arrpeggios and scare chords over Bernard's score! Watch the ending as Dracula wiggles helplessly on the floor... you can even hear Peter Cushing's pair of candleabra crashing together to form his makeshift crucifix from Horror of Dracula on the soundtrack! Of course this sound has no function in the Pakistani film at all! I'm not going to even mention the Latin dance jazz cuts used in scenes where the tension is supposed to build!
In fairness, the director states in an interview that Pakistani filmmakers typically take scenes from favorite foreign films and reconstruct them in theirs. If this film had had international release in 67, the filmmakers would've been sued by Hammer Films. (As Leone was by Kurosawa Productions!)
Ironically, the DVD is put together quite professionally presenting special features well and with an astonishingly good print which makes the filmmaking look even worse!
All in all, Mondo Macabro's Living Corpse is a case of "The Emperor's New Clothes" wherein if the powers that be exclaim a lost classic in a fancy package, the naked truth is quite the opposite!
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BEST TRANSFER - GET IT WHILE YOU CAN
A Classic Of Its Kind.
Fantastic Flick......just don't bother to watch the last 10 min.
A wonderfully atmospheric thriller -- but the ending disappoints
This is what a Cartographer's nightmare feels like...

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Starring: Richard Boone , Theodore Bikel , Peggy Maurer , Robert Osterloh , and Herbert Anderson
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