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Buried Alive  

Sony Pictures - 2008

Directed by: Paul Etheredge

Starring:
Jeff Blum
Greyson Chadwick
Britt Morgan



Review by Michael Knight

Judging by the DVD cover I assumed Buried Alive was going to be a slasher movie in the vein of Scream or I Know What You Did Last Summer. I was wrong. I was dead wrong! (dead wrong, get it… O.K. enough of that.) What we have here is the hand held camera style of Cloverfeild or Blair Witch. Two things made this film different from the above mentioned. The first thing is the video footage in this film is a composite from many different sources. The story unfolds using slices from personal web casts, peoples personal video cams, souvenir footage the killer has taken and video surveillance type footage from the crypts in which the killer has buried all the victims. It is quite ingenious how all these separate sources tell a successful story.

Entombed alive in separate confined coffins, each victim awakens to a video monitor and camera lens, as well as, personal artifacts and items that provide clues to why they are there. The video monitors turn on now and then to show one of the other members of this group of friends meet their untimely demise. They also come on to show video footage of events of the past leading us to believe that these innocent victims are not so innocent at all. One by one these friends are murdered as the rest of the group are forced to watch on the enclosed video screens.

The second factor that makes this a different kind of movie within the hand-held style is this; the film turns into a real who-done-it as the victims discuss (through the video monitors) the clues that are left within their coffin-like cells. Between the personal clues and video clips from the past they are narrowing the possibilities of this mystery. If they figure it out in time it could save their lives.

Buried Alive is an intriguing movie that was quite enjoyable in its revealing of the killer mystery. Also the ingenuity of the story telling and plot development make this a refreshing style to watch. I do recommend seeing Buried Alive. I give it two bloody thumbs up!!

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