Expert: 7devonapes - 7/22/2010

Question
I saw this move when I was a kid. There are SOOO many buried
alive movies, but this one I liked the best.
It's a small town that starts off with some girl hitching a ride and the guy smashes her face in with a rock...later you see this motuary guy putting eyeballs in her socket and makeup on her...and she comes alive. Then there is a small town cop married to a lovely teacher I believe.
He doesn't know he's dead or that his wife is already dead for that matter...(not until the end)...He doesn't find out he's dead until his make-up starts falling off his hands?
There is a creepy old guy that puts makeup on the dead people and they come back to life.
His wife asks him to bury her towards the end...

I have tried to locate this movie..please help.

Answer
Hi Lynn,

Apologies for the delay.

The movie you are looking for is called "Dead & Buried" (1981), directed by Gary Sherman ("Raw Meat" - 1972) and written by Dan O'Bannon ("Alien", "Return of The Living Dead") and Ronald Shusett ("Alien", "Total Recall").

Here is imdb.com's plot summary for the film:
"Potters Bluff, Rhode Island. may seem to be a sleepy little town. At least for the casual visitor and the local sheriff, Daniel Gillis. However, all of a sudden, there are a lot of strange murders where strangers or people passing through are killed by mobs of townspeople. Only Sheriff Gillis has no clue to what's going on. Fortunately, the town has an excellent undertaker, William G. Dobbs, who is happy to take care of this sudden death-wave which is good for his business. Gillis soon discovers clues that lead to many of the local inhabitants involved in the killings, including his own wife Janet."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082242/


The entire film is available to watch via Youtube, here (Part 1):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA3tSwA7qwk&feature=related


DVD copies are available from Amazon.com, ebay, etc.

All the best!
Ryan