I Bury The Living

I Bury The Living is a 1958 Horror Film directed by Albert Band. The Cast includes Richard Boone (Big Jake), Theodore Bikel (The Defiant Ones), and Howard Smith (Death of A Salesman). The screenplay was written by the guy behind The Deer Hunter, Louis Garfinkle.

Every few years the CEOs of Kraft Department Stores switch off on being the Overseer of a local cemetery. This time it is Robert Krafts turn. The cemetery features pricey plots for the business owners around town. So many that in order to keep track of it all they have decided to use a pin system to keep track. In the main office a map of the graveyard is featured with black and white pins in it. The white pins represent purchased plots in which the owner does not occupy yet and the black pins represent that the owner is now buried in that plot. On Roberts first day he accentually marks a newly bought plot with the black pins, thinking nothing of it. The next day he grimly found that the owners of that plot soon after, had died. Feeling as if he was somehow to blame, he begins to believe that the map and the black pins have caused death. After switching multiple other white pins to black pins, all appointed owners suffer a mysterious death. Could Robert be the one causing these deaths? Does he have the ability to kill by simply placing a pin into a map?