The 5 Greatest Horror Movies You Have Never Seen, #5
Friday, October 12, 2007
Halloween's coming and everybody is in the mood to watch a good horror movie, but which one to watch?
Let me say first off that I love horror movies and I have probably seen most all of them; good, bad, and indifferent. But let's be honest, most of them are bad. Very bad. However a select few are good, even great. Usually good horror films take their rightful place in the canon of scary movies, but sometimes a great horror film, for whatever reason, falls between the cracks of the public consciousness. These are the films I am talking about, great horror movies that the average movie viewer has never seen (or in many cases even heard off).
So without further ado, I give you my list of:
The Five Greatest Horror Movies You Have Never Seen
5 – Dead and Buried (1981)
The film is a classic 'small town with a secret' tale that takes place in the mythical New England town of Potter's Bluff. The movie jumps right out of the gate with a disturbing sequence in which seemingly friendly and sane townspeople beat an outsider nearly to death. They then finish the job by lighting him on fire. Strangely though, soon after this brutal incedent, the outsider is seen, not burned and not dead, working happily at the town gas station.
That's all I'm going to tell you about the plot. If that doesn't make you interested in this film, you're reading the wrong list.
The movie is filmed with a very effective air of foreboding and menace and features solid performances from everyone involved. While not a splatter film by any stretch of the imagination, it contains several effective gore sequences done by none other than effects legend Stan Winston (The Thing, Edward Scissorhands, Terminator 2, Aliens, etc…).
A couple more names of note: it was written by Dan O'Bannon who also wrote Alien and Return of the Living Dead (probably the funniest zombie movie ever made), and features an early appearance by Robert 'Freddy Kreuger' Englund.
All in all an excellent horror movie that very few people have heard of.
Check back soon for number 4.
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