Burial

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Burial

Released Sep 2, 2022

1h 35m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Set during the waning days of World War II, Burial tells the fictional story of a small band of Russian soldiers tasked with delivering the crated remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German "Werewolf" partisans and picked off one by one. An intrepid female intelligence officer leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their cargo doesn't fall into the hands of those who would hide the truth forever.

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Burial gets bogged down in its unnecessarily convoluted story, but it's also a B-movie with impressively weighty subtext.

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

Burial is... atmospheric, with something thematically potent lurking in its sylvan half-light.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 20, 2022

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

“Burial” does have a fair share of suspenseful moments but it never takes full advantage of its premise.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 8, 2022

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

Burial has a hard enough core, both in terms of its central premise and its pulpy tropes, that for about 30 minutes, it almost works as a decent B-movie, right before it unceremoniously falls apart.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 2, 2022

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Jon Mendelsohn

CBR

Burial's script contains some interesting elements, but the film never manages to truly rise to the occasion as either a horror movie or a war story.

Jan 3, 2023

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Dennis Schwartz

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A muddled sort of horror pic set as a WWII B-movie period piece thriller about Hitler's corpse.

Rated: C+

Sep 28, 2022

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Pete Vonder Haar

Houston Press

It almost feels like Parker had originally set out to make a horror movie — not that Hitler isn't already one of history's greatest monsters — but ended up toning down those elements for a more generic war drama with some supernatural elements.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 16, 2022

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Cristina B

Quite slow in the start. Pretty difficult watch. At least by my standards, ultraviolent with some scenes of violence against women, but does fit the bill for a WWII thriller if that's your thing. The heroine's actions in the ending (a twist!) do feel rather inexplicable.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

09/06/24

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Jeff Y

Excellent film, for a B grade; well-acted, good script, realistic sets/props and unrelenting action, held my interest throughout.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/29/24

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Audience Member

I think it was okay, I was inebriated.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/12/23

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Ella R

I have a sneaky suspicion that the movie the actors made and the movie the audience saw may have had two different plots. There was some dodgy editing going on which took away from some good performances. Tom felton had a particularly good segment where he told his story, but slow cuts, poorly edited action and a sense of missing elements gave the overall film a low quality finish despite high quality performance and costume design. I can't help but feel based on one characters reaction at the end that the story one character in particular experienced was true to the horror genre, whereas the story I experienced as a viewer was a historical drama.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Avindu G

Burial is decent enough post WWII story that was horrifyingly mislabeled. Only substance that's even remotely haunting is that a group of soldiers carrying a casket around. In aspects of a war movie Burial manages to present yet another side story of the post WW society that's still grasping the new realities. Gloomy skies with dark woods beneath are tone setters for a darkness refusing to cease it's existence. Cast puts up a fine performance to portray the exhausted soldiers struggling to finish up the final assignment. Apart from it's historical value there's hardly anything that sparks for this flick. But it would pass the time just fine.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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bill p

Slow moving, good acting but disappointing story and ending.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Set during the waning days of World War II, Burial tells the fictional story of a small band of Russian soldiers tasked with delivering the crated remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German "Werewolf" partisans and picked off one by one. An intrepid female intelligence officer leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their cargo doesn't fall into the hands of those who would hide the truth forever.

Director: Ben Parker
Producer: Matthew James Wilkinson, Paul Higgins, Ivo Felt, Tom Harberd
Screenwriter: Ben Parker
Distributor: IFC Midnight
Production Co: Fields Park Media Partners, Stigma Films, Allfilm, Metrol Technology, MBK Productions, Head Gear Films, Kreo Films FZ
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 2, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 2, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA): $8.6K
Runtime: 1h 35m

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