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THE PREMATURE BURIAL

1962 US HMDB
March 7, 1962

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.

Directors

Roger Corman

Cast

Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Heather Angel, Alan Napier, John Dierkes, Dick Miller, Brendan Dillon, Clive Halliday
Dramma Horror Thriller Mistero

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

A man, obsessed with the nightmare of being buried alive, suffers a heart attack when he discovers that his father had been, by mistake, buried while still alive. The illness causes him to experience a state of apparent death and when he wakes up, the man finds himself, as in his nightmare, buried in a tomb. He manages to free himself but, now insane, kills his father-in-law, buries his wife alive, but is then eliminated by his sister. A classic of horror signed by Roger Corman, one of the most established genre directors in the sixties, who manages to convey a sense of anguish to the viewer (who is not terrified by the idea of being buried alive?). Far from modern horror films, suitable, for this reason, for a more "mature" audience, but worth watching.