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I Bury the Living

1958 · 77 min

A slow-burning psychological descent into guilt and paranoia, with a eerie small-town setting and a twist that lingers.

Directed by: Albert Band
Genres: Mystery, Horror
Starring: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Herbert Anderson

Tagline: Out of a Time-Rotted Tomb Crawls an Unspeakable Horror!
Overview: The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain map. When nobody believes him, he risks his sanity to play God once again and prove his point.

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Directed by: Albert Band
Genres: Mystery, Horror
Starring: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Herbert Anderson

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: guilt
obsession
madness
death
fate
Places: small town
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	6
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	1
Tension	7
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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