This psychological thriller has its good points. The premise is original and it makes a virtue of its limited budget by creating a very claustrophobic feel. Unfortunately it's let down by poor performances from Richard Boone and particularly Theodore Bikel, a very unconvincing Scotsman and a ludicrous ending with a Talking Killer whose explanation is incomprehensible.
Boone is Robert Kraft, an affable trustafarian from the local business community who takes over the running of a cemetery and pushes the man on the ground Andy McFee ( Bikel ) towards retirement. McFee shows him a map of the plots which uses white pins for booked plots and black for occupied. Kraft becomes convinced that if he puts black pins in a plot prematurely the earmarked person will die.
Peggy Maurer ( as Ann Craig )
Sex : No ( that goes for the whole film actually )
Death : Survives
Peggy ( who looked rather older than 27 ) had a decade or so in acting but this was her only film role. She was married to Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn. She died in 2012 aged 81.
Lynette Bernay ( as Liz Drexel )
Sex : No
Death : Killed in a car crash
Lynette made her film debut as a dancer in Rock Around The Clock. She had a reasonable acting career but was much busier as a costume supervisor from the mid-seventies onwards. She died of brain cancer in 2008 aged 77.
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