Buried Alive (1990)

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Peitzman</B></div> <div> <B>Based on a Story by David A. Davies</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Clint..........Tim Matheson (Animal House, Sometimes They Come Back)</B></div> <div> <B>Joanna.........Jennifer Jason Leigh (Single White Female)</B></div> <div> <B>Cort...........William Atherton (Die Hard I & II, Ghost Busters)</B></div> <div> <B>Sheriff Sam....Hoyt Axton (Gremlins, Liar's Moon, We're No Angels)</B></div> <div> <B>(Not Available)Jay Gerber (The Cartier Affair)    </B></div> <div> <B>               Wayne Grace </B></div> <div> <B>               Donald Hotton (The Hearse)</B></div> <div> <B>               Brion Libby (Stephen King's Nightshift Collection)</B></div> <div> <B>               Peg Shirley</B></div> <div> <B>               David Youse</B></div> <div> <B>Coroner........Milt Hammerman</B></div> <div> <B>Foreman........Michael Keep</B></div> <div> <B>Attorney.......Jan Merlin (Guns of Diablo, Silk 2, Twilight People)</B></div> <div> <B>Priest.........James Scally </B></div> <div> <B>Fire Captain...Dale Swann</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: This is the best that cable has to offer. The movies are good and expensive. A memorably scary rise from the grave, fine performances by the four leads, and a nice twist on the rat in a maze line. Nice graveyard colors and gruesome mangled hand make-up. The viewer can almost feel it when those infected cuts are immersed in hydrogen peroxide. Truly sociopathic performances by Atherton and as always Leigh (Single White Female) Hoyt Axton is great as the Sheriff who can only suspect what's going on until it's too late. What Genre is this? Erie Tale of revenge is a horror movie that defies any of the traditional movie genres. The proximity to Poe underlines the eerie tale aspect. A nice moment when Clint hears that not only was he murdered by his wife, but that she had aborted the pregnancy that they had been trying for so desperately. At that moment, what still might have been a suspense/mystery piece moves unerringly into the realm of horror. Only a ghastly revenge would do at that point. Yet another Rotweiler, the horror movie dog of choice and the YIKES! Favorite Dog Award Winner.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Clint (nicknamed Jack) owns a small construction company in his home town where he and his wife live in their (actually his) dream house which they built together. A competitor has offered one and a half million dollars for the pesky company, an offer which Joanna is eager to accept as she would like to move back to New York. Despite their agreement to give his hometown a try, she feels like a rat in a maze (a phrase she should have kept to herself), their attempts to get pregnant have been unfruitful, and she wants out now. He on the other hand is right at home, goes fishing with his best friend Sheriff Sam, and is happy with his thriving business. While he fishes, she  supposedly visits friends in New York, but is in bed with her slimy  boyfriend, Dr. Mark Cort. She is ready to leave Clint, but Cort suggests an easier, faster and more profitable way to end her marriage. An extraction of a toxin from fish ovaries causes a cardiac arrest in the recipient and leaves no trace. "I never knew murder could be so pure" coos Joanna. With the money from the business, Cort could open his dream practice in Hollywood. Joanna decides she can't do it and Mark suggests in that case that they break off their affair. Joanna keeps the poison. When Clint returns, Joanna is particularly passionate toward him and prepares him a big steak dinner with a nice big glass of lethal poison. Clint proposes a toast to his luck in finding Joanna, swills it down and collapses to the floor with a scream for help while Joanna encourages him "Damn you die!". Sheriff Sam is surprised that a man in his prime would just die of a heart attack. Joanna hasn't handled this very well as the empty vial is still on the floor when the Sheriff arrives. She is annoyed that it took so long. Joanna insists that after all she has been though there will be no wake. Sam seems very curious about the way Joanna and Cort are talking, thus Cort oils up to Sam saying that he handled himself very well in there in his duties as Sheriff and friend. At the mortician's, Jack is zipped out of the body bag and is prepared to be "pumped and dumped". The rookie embalmer listens with some trepidation as the process is described to him. Clint moves under his touch and the embalmer starts to make the incision. The rookie loses it, fainting dead away. Not surprisingly, Joanna goes cheap and says no wake and no fancy casket and the embalming process stops. She opts for a water damaged coffin. Duke, Clint's Rotweiler, seems to think there's something wrong at the funeral. As they toast their performances that night in the bathtub, the dog is barking. Joanna decides that the dog's days are done and heads out with the shotgun. She manages only to shoot the door open and the dog gets away. She giggles sociopathically. The Rotweiler heads into the graveyard, and sits at the fresh grave. Inside the grave, Clint's eyes open. Suddenly, a thin wail is heard from beneath the sod. Muddy water escapes into the coffin and Clint pushes his hand through the rotting timbers and the wet earth gives way to his struggles. The dog thinks this tableau queer as Clint emerges from the muck. Clint stumbles home in the rain and is peering through the window when Joanna catches a glimpse of him. When she and Cort hear Duke barking they relax, blaming the apparition on the dog. When they drive off, the mudman breaks through a window into the cellar. Joanna is busy selling off the business. Clint awakens in the cellar the next morning and crawls up the stairs and has a bite of chicken before his dear wife pulls into the drive. Clint fumbles with a shotgun, manipulating it with his mangled fingers. Just as he's ready to do the deed, Sam shows up, doing a different kind of fishing. Joanna sees a bite taken out of the chicken and nervously lights up a cigarette. As the Sheriff leaves, Cort arrives, which appears to concern both. Clint puts in another shell and hears that Cort had performed abortion on her. This leads Clint to decide that a gun is too easy. He fills the sink upstairs with hydrogen peroxide and puts his damaged hands in, hardly able to keep from screaming. The next day, representatives of Clint's rivals show up with cash. They start to tell her about how sorry they are about her husband, but have to repeat it because she is distracted by the sight of the money. Sheriff Sam is at the grave sight with the gravedigger wondering who would steal Clint's body. They agree to keep it quiet. Joanna has meanwhile found a muddy mess in her bathroom and wonders what has happened. She picks up a poker and calls Cort, but he is in the shower. Duke has since returned and she pulls out the gun. Just when she turns to shoot, a disguised Clint jumps into view and she fires and tumbles down the stairs. Cort arrives with a dosage of the same ovary extract to poison Joanna. He finds the money out on a desk and calls to her, then hears her down in the basement and goes to investigate. Joanna manages to bop him on the head. When she heads up the stairs she glimpses the welding outfit once again as the door closes. The Leigh family scream tradition is exercised. The prisoners find that the shotgun has only blanks. They then try battering their way out, but Duke has all options covered. Joanna  moans we've got "Jason upstairs and Cujo outside." They infer it's the redneck Sheriff behind this and decide that he wants a piece of the pie. The plan is to rip out his heart, jam it down his throat and laugh when he chokes on it. Joanna finds the lethal dosage on the floor and finally realizes Cort's entire plan. A struggle for the syringe ensues and just as he's about to finish it the door opens. They ascend the stairs agreeing the needle is best used on Sheriff Sam. They find that the light switch has somehow disappeared and they feel around finding that a new wall has been added. Just as they are about to return to the basement, a panel closes and they find that they are in a fifteen foot by fifteen foot enclosure. Then a panel opens again and they enter a long, narrow passage. Back at the Sheriff's house, Sam wakes up restless and looks again at the empty coffin. He finds he can put his fist right through the rotted wood. Meanwhile, Clint and Joanna walk down the passage and find that it too is blocked off. Next they are separated by a panel. Cort's panel opens and heads toward the window, syringe in hand. Clint steps into the light and Cort falls on the syringe. In the welder suit, Clint advances on Joanna and she is forced to crawl into smaller and smaller passages. Clint then sets a flare and the house burns while he drives off with a largish box on the back of his truck. Sam arrives to find the house burning, but no bodies were found in the house. On a hunch, Sam goes to the cemetery and finds "a stranger" filling in Clint's grave. Sam tells him, "I don't know who you are, but don't come back here, ever."</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>