Suspense and macabre are two words you can use describing this movie written by Louis Garfinkle. You may even say "is this a joke?". I BURY the LIVING may just be a little under-rated. Reluctantly Robert Kraft(Richard Boone)takes over as the newly-elected director of a cemetery. The first thing he does is retire the caretaker Andy McKee(Theodore Bikel), who has worked faithfully for forty years. Andy isn't very happy even if he is given a full annuity. Things get creepy when Kraft inexplainably changes push-pins on a map of the cemetery plots. White means living...black means dead. When he changes the pins to black the owner of the plot mysteriously dies. Kraft spirals into a breakdown when he thinks he has a macabre power. Other players include: Robert Osterloh, Herbert Anderson, Howard Smith and Peggy Maurer. Director Albert Band seems to handle what he has to work with. This movie would have been much better my merely changing the last ten minutes; that is where the movie becomes a joke.
Review of I Bury the Living
