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💀 NUMBER FOURTEEN 💀
💀 EIGHT DECADES (1950s) 💀

"I Bury The Living" (1958)
* dir: Albert Band
* Horror / Mystery / Misleading Genre Poster: The Motion Picture
[ ★★★★ / ★★★★★ ]

An exceedingly moody, sneakily well-written little "Twilight Zone" style mystery-chiller with an excellent and surprisingly sensitive central performance, some solid low-budget filmmaking (including a fully defined and quietly off-the-wall style complete with tons of genuinely daring visual flourishes), and a twisty-turny plot that doesn't ever go quite where you'd expect it to.

Honestly, I didn't take as many notes as I usually do just because this thing so thoroughly had its hooks in me. I found myself fully transfixed from the opening credits to the very final frame, just totally given over to and strapped in for the ride...and at a brisk 76 minutes, what a lean and mean little ride it was.

Check it out, but go in completely blind. Treat it like the "Barbarian" of 60+ years ago.