In fact, this is rather a typical thriller based on a 'mystical-horror' basis (the protracted action, its long 'comprehension' and only then a precipitous and abrupt denouement - all the 'symptoms' are present!). And he was interesting to me! Firstly, because it is still more of a 'movie' than the current stupid and repetitively monotonous zombie-themed cheap stuff. At that, already distant time, somehow they tried to `` eat straw, but not lose force '' (this is me about low-budget - I myself, with a good make-up artist, could easily shoot frame by frame, double-triple overlaying the most spectacular scene here - with the transformation of the head of the victim into a skull and into a new head, without any computer graphics!). Secondly, because the zombie theme here, even then, was solved quite non-trivially: without a heap of evil, semi-decaying corpses, with learned movements and gaits, and for some reason big lovers of living human flesh (you noticed that in our film no one eats anyone !). On the contrary, it turns out that the wife of a narrow-minded and vain sheriff ... I am silent, I am silent! And he, married for so many years, did not notice this, because ... I am silent again. Get ready for the ending. There is not a hint of a 'skylight in the clouds' in it (as is still practiced by idiots from American cinema, one of all is saved, and there is hope ... for a sequel). However, the 'anti-heppiend' is a move worn out to holes even then. The whole question is how to play it. So appreciate this kind of prank. By the way, in the English translation the title of the film reads like this: 'The Dead and the Buried'. But the Russian version is more intriguing.