Buried Alive (1989)

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Greg Pitts</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Gary..........Robert Vaughn (CHUD II, Man From UNCLE, Superman III)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Scheffer..Donald Pleasence (Alone in the Dark, Creepers, Halloween)</B></div> <div> <B>Janet.........Karen Witter (The Perfect Match)</B></div> <div> <B>Jacob.........John Carradine(The Boogeyman, The Howling, The Sentinal)</B></div> <div> <B>Fingers.......Nia Long (Boyz N the Hood, Made in America)</B></div> <div> <B>Tim...........Bill Butler (Inner Sanctum, Leatherface - TCM III)</B></div> <div> <B>Debbie........Ginger Allen (Leather Jackets, Vice Academy)</B></div> <div> <B>Shiro.........Janine Denison </B></div> <div> <B>Ken Wade......Arnold Vosloo (The Finishing Touch, Hard Target)</B></div> <div> <B>Boze..........Ashley Hayden</B></div> <div> <B>Amy...........Stefa Popic</B></div> <div> <B>Sue-Sue.......Hayley Dorskey</B></div> <div> <B>Tina..........Roslynn Farrell</B></div> <div> <B>Yvonne........Dee Dee Eybers</B></div> <div> <B>Rita..........Isabel Kastrikis</B></div> <div> <B>Roxy..........Sharlene Denn</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: An expensive film with plenty of big name actors, fine production values and excellent direction. This film does a nice job of keeping you guessing until the murderous madperson is disclosed. Is it the abstracted ex-inmate Dr. Scheffer? One of the current inmates? Janet herself? Dr. Julian? Or is Dr. Julian's father, the throwback to the Inquisition age of psychotherapy whom Janet thinks she saw in the basement, more than a figment of her imagination? Director Gerard Kikoine does an acrobatic good job of keeping these options open by trotting out one person after another who has done some time on the analyst's couch. The action is colored by Janet's delusional fantasies, and instead of simply losing the audience as so often happens in stories of this sort, this blurring of dream and reality actually drives the story along. Remarkable. In general, the pace is quite good, although once the killer is known, the tension flattens out considerably. After that it's a classic romp through the catacombs of the old asylum, which has its own rewards. If you enjoy the outrageous and frighteningly unprepared advances that Gary makes on Janet, you'll really enjoy it when Ken starts in with the same routine. The physical set of the old asylum in the basement provides a nice backdrop. Sadly, though, a rating skull is needlessly tossed away when hands reach up from the rubble in freeze frame at the end. The cutting of the eye in biology class is a nice bit of unnecessary gruesomeness. Dedicated to John Carradine "and his distinguished film career, spanning six decades". Although both being buried alive and madness play a central role in this film, that hardly justifies it's being called "Edgar Allen Poe's Buried Alive". </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: On the grounds of Raven Croft Health Facility, Tina breaks for freedom, armed with her friend's switchblade pursued by a Ronald Reagan masked madman, beaten into submission after a prolonged struggle, delivered via secret shaft to the cellar of the asylum, and bricked up in a wall. At the urging of her psychologist and convinced by Gary Julian's speech, Janet decides to start again teaching at Ravenscroft. Officer Ken who wakes her at roadside asks her if she's seen a sixteen year old runaway missing from Ravenscroft. Ravenscroft is a nuthouse. Gary has transformed his father's asylum into a sensitive healing center where Janet does a little investigation on her first night. She opens a door to see a fresh brick wall heaving to the sound of someone wailing. When Dr. Scheffer checks it for her, it's only a normal closet. Shaken, Janet takes qualudes. Teaching biology isn't an easy assignment at Ravenscroft. Janet is nearly killed by unpopular Yvonne with a piece of a beaker. The staff assures her that that's the most excitement their likely to see all year. That night Yvonne mixes her hair off in the biology lab. She is reported missing the next day. Afterwards, Janet has a vision that an arm comes through the walkway and pulls her into an underground tunnel. Inside, she looks behind a brick wall to find decomposing corpses. Janet discusses her problem with Gary. When Janet was 14, her father John Kenneth Pendleton died. She wears his beltbuckle as a pin. When they make a little progress, Gary inevitably tries to kiss her without success. Amy explains the next day she fears ghosts she hears at night. New patient Shiro tells Gary he's a fake and she hates him. The other girls seem strangely protective of Gary. At an icicle club initiation, fingers is thrown around the shower by a naked mob. Janet is meanwhile hallucinating that an arm covered with ants is trying to pull her down the toilet. In phase 2 of the initiation, Fingers has to find "something" hidden in the basement. All club members accompany her. Fingers finds her switchblade in a pile of bricks and soon stumbles onto an orgiastic party where the icicle club have smuggled boys in for the town. Shiro has also discovered it but is content to spy from the shadows until the masked man drags her off and bricks her up. Maybe its all the activity in the foundation, but Janet can't sleep. Gary is despondent that his ideas aren't working Janet thinks Debbie's threats are what slow Gary's therapy. Fingers tells Janet she thinks something has happened to Tina. She had promised to get in touch but failed and shows her the switchblade. While investigating the cellar Janet finds an electric shock chair when Dr. Scheffer grabs her shouting nit to touch it. She knocks him to the floor and flees to experience the vision of the throbbing wall again, only this time she is grabbed by an old man who screams for help"I didn't do anything wrong! He's crazy!" After Debbie has a talk with Gary, Gary proposes transferring Debbie, but is interrupted when Janet sees a picture of Gary's father on the wall and recognizes him as the walled-up man. Gary tells Janet she's not insane "I love you". That day, Debbie receives mail that reads simply Tonight! She dresses up and sneaks to the cellar where she meets Tim. Neither are ever seen again. Debbie has been transferred but the police are there the next day with Tim's mother, looking for her son. Tim's mother says that ten years ago Dr. Scheffer was a patient here. Janet confronts Gary, who claims he cured Scheffer completely and is now a Doctor. Gary pulls out an engagement ring and pops the question to a baffled Janet. Downstairs, Debbie and Tim are being fitted for a hole in the ground. Gary refuses to divulge Debbie's whereabouts to Janet, who steals his keys and searches his files to find Debbie listed as a runaway. Gary answers her questions, but she still can't reconcile all the problems at the institute so she arranges a meeting with Officer Ken for that night. When she gets to her disabled car, the real insane person is there to greet her and a showdown ensues replete with needles, axes, a stonemason's hammer, shock therapy, and a tour of the catacombs with a chambre des morts and electrical/gas firestorm and a possible ghost.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>