Unimaginative low budget horror
“Buried Alive” draws its inspiration from two tales by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Premature Burial” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” Poe’s name in the title of a movie immediately conjures images of emaciated neurotics, ominous atmosphere, and gothic horror. The results can vary. While there are fine horror pictures based on Poe stories, even more of them are disappointing.<br /><br />“Buried Alive” opens as Janet (Karen Witter) arrives to teach at Ravens Croft Institute, a reform school for troubled girls. The ringleader of the girls is tough Debbie (Ginger Allen), who is not above using threats and violence against those who challenge her. Janet learns that things aren’t as they appear after dealing with often violent students and experiencing bizarre hallucinations of swarms of ants, arms reaching up from the ground, and undulating brick walls. She subsequently begins to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several girls, who are being stalked by a masked killer who buries them alive.<br /><br />Robert Vaughn, in post-“Man From U.N.C.L.E.” mode, plays the head of the institute, Gary Julian, and Donald Pleasence (“Halloween”) plays Dr. Schaeffer, who is always lurking about, peering around corners, and turning up whenever danger rears its head. Vaughn is unable to rise above mediocre material and hams up his performance, especially in the third act. Veteran actor John Carradine, in his final screen role, appears briefly in a climactic scene.<br /><br />Director Gerard Kikoine (“Edge of Sanity”) tries to infuse this contemporary thriller with the spirit of Poe’s tales, using endless shadowy corridors and a lurking black cat. There are few kills and an awful lot of exposition, which slows the movie and undermines tension. The director does manage some good scare scenes. Arms reach up to grab young women and drag them down what seems like a mile-long chute into a dingy, dank basement of horrors. Thousands of ants swarm about, covering the feet of the unsuspecting. These images may induce a shudder or two but little more.<br /><br />Ms. Witter, a former 1982 Playboy Playmate, is certainly attractive but not much of an actress. Attired in surprisingly modest suits befitting a teacher, she seems pretty slow to realize that a lot is wrong at the Institute. The viewer is way ahead of her. Her character varies between intelligent professional concerned for the young women who regularly go missing to defenseless horror heroine who has a knack for making dumb decisions that no real person would. Nudity in a scene of the girls showering together serves no purpose other than to titillate.<br /><br />screams, sounds of a body being pummeled, bricks being cemented into place, and exaggerated sounds of people chewing their food. In the underground area, footsteps echo as Janet walks with trepidation through dark corridors. Frederic Talgorn’s music does its best to enhance scenes and build suspense but is fighting a script that doesn’t seem to know what suspense is.<br /><br />Bonus material on the R-rated Region A Blu-ray release from Vinegar Syndrome include the following:<br />Ginger’s Antics, an interview with actress Ginger Allen<br />Well, I Wanna Be an Actor, an interview with actor William Butler<br />Reversible cover artwork<br /><br />“Buried Alive” is not strong enough to appeal to die-hard horror fans, who will find it draggy and lacking in blood and gore. The subject matter, the script by Jake Class and Stuart Lee, and Kikoine’s unimaginative direction have yielded a routine, ho-hum horror picture with just a few good scenes.
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