J'enterre les vivants

Original title: I Bury the Living

1958
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1h 17m

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6.3/10

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Richard Boone in J'enterre les vivants (1958)

Cemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots' owners.

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Cemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots' owners.Cemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots' owners.Cemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots' owners.

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6.3/10

3.3K

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I Bury The Living: Who Did It?

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I Bury The Living: Who Did It?

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Richard Boone

Robert Kraft

Theodore Bikel

Andy McKee

Peggy Maurer

Ann Craig

Howard Smith

George Kraft

Herbert Anderson

Jess Jessup

Robert Osterloh

Lt. Clayborne

Russ Bender

Henry Trowbridge
(uncredited)

Lynette Bernay

Elizabeth Drexel
(uncredited)

Cyril Delevanti

William Isham
(uncredited)

Ken Drake

Bill Honegger
(uncredited)

Matt Moore

Charlie Bates
(uncredited)

Glen Vernon

Stuart Drexel
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Stephen King says he was thinking about this film when he wrote his short story "Obits", about a young writer who discovers he can kill people by writing an obituary about them. The short story is in King's Bazaar of Bad Dreams collection. He references the film in the foreword to the short story.

Goofs
At 14 min Robert Kraft randomly placed a black pin in the cemetery map plot of W ISHAM and removed the white pin. At 21 min Kraft stated he took a white pin out "quite at random" and put a black pin in its place. Reverse of what he actually did.

Quotes
Robert Kraft: Andy, you better get this straight right now. You heard that lieutenant. It's possible for some people to have things inside them that make other things happen. Nothing is impossible for a man like that, if he thinks about it hard enough.

Crazy credits
Intro: Science has learned that Man possesses powers which go beyond the boundaries of the natural.

This is the story of one confronted by such strange forces within himself.

Connections
Featured in Weirdo with Wadman: I Bury The Living (1964)

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Hey, Ho, Anybody Home?
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Traditional
Performed by Theodore Bikel

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Featured review

7/10

Richard Boone's Map Pin Massacre

First, let me state that I'm an unabashed fan of The Twilight Zone, so when I say that I Bury the Living is, indeed, much like a TZ episode, that's a compliment!

Boone's performance is excellent as the cemetery man who seems to have the ability...or the curse...to cause people to die by sticking pins into a map of the cemetery.

The movie has its flaws, including a tendency for anyone in the film who doubts Boone's ability (including Boone himself) to stick a pin in the map to find out if anyone dies, which is a bit like pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger to see if the gun's loaded. And the ending seems grafted on and at odds with the rest of the film.

The rest of the film, though, is pretty good and is imaginatively filmed, becoming positively Expressionist as Boone's "madness" sets in. All in all, I gave it a "7" for the things it does well. Definitely worth taking a look at...if you like The Twilight Zone.