Though the fear of being buried alive may seem irrational in this day and age, in the cruder medical era of the mid-1800s it was not unheard of for someone to be placed six feet under while they still had a faint pulse. Taking place in the Victorian era and based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story, Roger Corman's The Premature Burial focuses on this phobia, and Kino Lorber has announced they will release the film on home media.
From Kino Lorber, The Premature Burial will come out on Blu-ray and DVD sometime in May. Special features have yet to be announced, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further developments.
Directed by Roger Corman off a screenplay by Charles Beaumont and Ray Russell (based on the 1844 short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe), The Premature Burial stars Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, and Dick Miller.
"Talk about a tortured artist! Oscar winner Ray Milland is Guy, a medical student and painter whose obsessive fear of being buried alive compels him to build himself a tomb with a view, equipped with everything he can think of to escape death. But it's when his long suffering wife convinces him to destroy the tomb that he finds himself in the gravest of danger!"
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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