The Blue Underground Express keeps on a' rollin, and those folks have dug up (pun well intended) a classic that's been mysteriously absent from the shelves of region one DVD shoppes for far too long. Now, Gary Sherman's Dead and Buried, one of the most bizarre and rewarding films of the 1980's, comes home in a loaded two-disc special edition!

Potter's Bluff, Rhode Island is a picturesque seaside little village where everyone knows everyone and there's a pie on every windowsill. The cozy town has a gas station, a diner, a one man police force, and a gorgeous ocean view. It's a great place to live, but you wouldn't wanna visit there. See, in Potter's Bluff, people check in, and corpses check out. It seems a mob of folks don't take kindly to strangers, and show this early on, when a photographer from the midwest is bludgeoned, strung up, and burned alive, and then tossed in his van to make it look like an accident. The local sheriff (Farentino) doesn't buy it, though, and he begins an investigation that leads to more deaths, more questions, and some truly horrifying answers that will have your head spinning by the film's mind-blowing climax.

It's funny, because I'd actually seen Dead and Buried back in the video rental heyday of the late 1980's, and I distinctly remember not liking it one lick. I wasn't I don't know what I was on at the time, but it must have been something akin to "stupid pills" because this is a great movie!! The film moves at a fairly deliberate pace, but it serves the plot nicely, as it's not a question of "whodunnit" as much as why. The town's secret is something you'll probably figure out pretty quick, but it's fun to watch it unfold, and Farentino and the late Jack Albert turn in great performances as the sheriff and eccentric mortician.

The DVD from Blue Underground features a healthy amount of extra material scattered over two discs, including three commentary tracks (Director Gary Sherman;co-writer Ronald Shusett/actress Linda Turley; and Cinematographer, Steve Poster) as well as three featurettes (the best of which is an FX retropsective with Stan Winston), poster and stills gallery, trailers, and more.

Dead and Buried is a smart, and oftentimes scary film that combines slasher fare with psychological horror with very effective results. Now, with this lovingly crafted set, this obscure classic should finally get the respect it deserves.