I Bury the Living

 

This is a 1958 horror thriller directed by Albert Band and stars Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel and Peggy Maurer.

Robert Kraft is a newly appointed director of the cemetery, who visits the caretaker and shown a map of the graves. Black pins on the map show the dead, and white pins reveal plot reservations. By something curious, Kraft notices that he's been causing deaths of people with plots on the map, convinced that he's unwillingly dooming them by switching pins on the board. He becomes sure that he is cursed by the map, a Voodoo like object with dark powers.

This was a gothic and atmospheric flick, although it changed storyline during the filming. It became a crime investigation seeking rational answers to explain supernatural horrors. This hints at a lot more potential and some weirdness. The phone number when calling the police was 666. The cemetery office containing the map was made for the film, although the cemetery itself is real, and is called Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles. The map itself changes appearance as Kraft becomes more paranoid. I rate this a tense 6/10

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