I Bury the Living

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I Bury the Living was a 1958 horror film directed by famed b-movie director Albert Band, father of Charles Band. Richard Boone stars as Robert Kraft, the newly appointed manager of a colossal cemetery. The cemetery is so large that a map is kept in the manager's office displaying the grounds and each gravesite. Filled graves are marked by black pins and unoccupied but sold graves are marked with white pins. Under the stress of his new job, Kraft accidentally places a black pin where it doesn't belong, only to discover later that the man who had bought the gravesite died soon afterwards. Under repeated tries, he finds that every time he places a black pin over an unoccupied grave, someone dies. Kraft slips into deep guilt and depression and believes he is cursed, while the cemetery caretaker (Theodore Bikel in a heavy Scots accent) knows more than he's telling.