Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

BakuryuuTyranno One interview video I watched once involved, after the interviews, the interviewer/presenter stated that the reason one person wasn't hired was because she would've made a good drinking buddy, but wasn't the material they needed."Buried Alive" is kinda like that. Little happens, but the characters are very entertaining, and mostly juvenile, but their antics stopped the movie from being boring.Tobin Bell is essentially a poor man's Tony Todd, wondering around and providing some sense of menace.There's some very gory murders, but much screen time is taken up watching the amusing potential victims, which alone should tell you whether you would enjoy watching this or not.

Paul Andrews Buried Alive starts as cousins Rene (Leah Rachel) & Zane (Terence Jay who also composed the music) decide to spend a weekend at a family ranch in the middle of the desert, Rene wants wants to play some tricks on two sorority wannabes Laura (Erin Reese) & Julie (Lindsey Scott) while Zane wants to search for some legendary buried gold. On the way there Zane has a few strange visions of a ghostly old woman holding an axe, doing some research it turns out that Rene & Zane's ancestor buried his first wife alive although her body was never found. As the teenage friends try to enjoy themselves it seems that the vengeful ghost of the buried woman has returned to seek revenge on the ancestor's of the man that murdered her...Directed by Robert Kurtzman who used to be part of KNB Effects buts seems to like directing horror films as much as providing gory make-up effects for them, while Buried Alive is competent as a teen slasher I suppose I expected a little bit more. There are several problems with Buried Alive that are common for this type of direct to video horror fare, the biggest problem is surely the pace & the fact that it's so bloody slow. The first kill doesn't happen until the fortieth minute & then nothing else happens until the final fifteen minutes when things finally pick up & the script realises that it's a horror film & not a cure for insomnia. The character's are walking clichés, there's a spotty nerd type who wears glasses & carries a laptop around all the time, there's the bitchy popular girl & her jock boyfriend, there's a crazy local who warns the kids about dangers & the whole back-story about the woman being buried alive & coming back for revenge is underwhelming. The majority of Buried Alive feels like padding, the subplot about Zane not taking his pills is seemingly pointless for instance & why does he start having visions even before they reach the ranch? Why is the ghost visible to some of the character's some of the time & not other's when at the end she is visible to everyone? At a shade over 90 minutes there's very little story here & the idiot, annoying, clichéd character's make the film a drag to watch & the lack of any proper kills until the last fifteen minutes means Buried Alive is a bit of a chore to sit through.Even though there's no much here the gores pretty good, someone is chopped down the middle with an axe & the two halves of his body are seen later, there's some blood splatter & a cool bit where someone gets his face sliced off with an axe but disappointingly some of the kills are off screen. As well as gore there's a bit of nudity & virtually all the tasks & pranks played on the two sorority babes involve them taking their clothes off. Although set mainly in the daylight to start with the end is set at night & Kurtzman directs things adequately, it's not that scary really though & the shock ending isn't that good either. Buried Alive is a fairly generic sounding title & there are at least ten other films that use the title.Filmed in Santa Fe in New Mexico this is well made with surprisingly good production values, it actually looks like a professional film even though it's rather dull at times. The acting is OK at vest, Tobin Bell for Saw fame gets about five minutes of screen time.Buried Alive is well made & has one or two decent gore scenes but the sluggish pace & predictable plot means actually sitting though it is harder than it should have been. Could have been fun, it isn't.

Bob The Barbarian I hate to see all the bad reviews and bad ratings. The movie isn't anything spectacular, but as a slasher movie it's great. This movie is a good time, and Tobin Bell is what really makes it. A couple of kids go out to their families mansion out in the middle of the desert with no one around but Old Lester. The film has a thin story line that could have been good but they didn't really do anything with it to make it very effective. The best parts in the movie are when Lester the caretaker played by Tobin Bell shows up to mess with the kids and what not, he's definitely the most entertaining part of the movie, but you have to give props on the ending. The villain one of the best I've seen in a slasher in a long time, and the ending is one of the most realistic I've seen in a slasher. One girl goes to get the car, she pulls up to the house waiting for her friends to come out, she waits a while but then she says the heck with that and she takes off without them. Overall I found this one very enjoyable, it's a fun little movie that has some good points in it.

Lucien Lessard Two college students Rene (Leah Rachel) and Zane (Terence Jay) invite their friends (Erin Lokitz, Lindsay Scott, Steve Sandvoss and Germaine De Leon) to their family ranch for the weekend somewhere in the desert. Which like any college students, they just want to have a wild party and getting laid. The Caketaker (Tobin Bell) is been trying to look for gold in the house. He accidentally digs the dead body of a old witch. Her spirit wants revenge and one by one, they are killed by this vengeful ghost.Directed by Robert Kurtzman (The Demolitionlist, The Rage, Wishmaster) made an pretty dull, lifeless supernatural slasher horror film with some neat special effects and good production values can't save it. Most of the college students are pretty unlikeable in the movie expect for Scott as the cute blonde. Only Bell seems to be having any real fun with his supporting role, he is the only one to give some class in this movie. Kurtzman's previous features are more fun than this. Especially he's one of the best make-up artists around and he owns an independent film production titled "Precient 13". Which he is named after John Carpenter's cult classic "Assault on Precient 13". Too bad this premise is very uninteresting and even Horror fans will find boring. (* ½/*****).