Wow! Such a good movie.

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

the audience applauded

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

I wish someone could tell me how many horror films are going to be named "Buried Alive" when it's all said and done? Yes I know, it's a question without an answer. This version of this extremely overused title introduces two cousins Zane (Jay) and Rene (Rachel) who are traveling to family estate in the middle of the desert. Rene arrives with two pledges from her sorority and her boyfriend Danny (Sandvoss). A slumming Tobin Bell plays Lester, the family loser who warns everyone to beware of an ex-family member who was a desert witch (Beth Biasella) and burned alive for her gold years ago. Make up effects man Robert Kurtzman is a wizard in his craft but this time he sits in the director's chair and the results are far from good. This thin excuse for a plot isn't helped by Kurtzman parading around all his actresses nude and then having characters split in half with an Ax. Of course every character is written and played as a complete asshole including lead Leah Rachel who takes the prize as a complete bitch! Apparently the writers felt like the characters should have another layer other than being asshole's so they came up with the idea to make them blithering idiots as well. If watching these lousy characters don't wear you down, the fact that it takes forever before the deranged desert witch show's up and does anything will. The sad part of this is that the film's monster, the desert witch has a great look and is quite scary. Kurtzman uses her well like in the scene where you see her in the distant in the middle of the desert as they drive by. This repeats several times until suddenly she is in the middle of the road. Kurtzman's F/X efforts certainly helped and a few chilling bits are included. Still, the movie can't seem to manage a Jump anywhere in its running time despite having a creepy looking killer. This killer in a different movie with a good script would be something to be excited about.

Wow. Before I watched this movie, I read the reviews here on IMDb. Since I tend to like cheesy "B" horror, I figured I would still give it a shot.I really regret it! This movie is low-budget, which in and of itself is not bad - however, combined with the horrible acting, lousy special effects and the absence of any SOLID storyline, it simply does not work. The ending is beyond stupid, and it wraps up the movie as if it were a TV show that ran out of time. The characters are waaaay too cookie-cutter. You have the "nerd", the "dumb blonde", etc etc. Come on guys. Put a little more effort into developing the characters so that we, as the audience can get involved in this story and watch on the edge of our seats. Lousy, lousy, lousy.I was VERY surprised that Tobin Bell signed on for this. I literally laughed out loud every time he appeared on camera. The cheap "jumps" were not scary whatsoever and failed to produce a "jump". Come on!As far as the nudity, there was NOT that much. Typical teen horror. Some topless shots, but they were very quick or shot from far away. Close-ups of some female behinds (in panties), and a very long moaning scene with two people fulled dressed (he's rubbing her feet. Very PG-13). Friday the 13th's from the 1980's have better nudity...The movie is BEYOND SLOW and feels like 180 minutes, rather than 90, because you just want it to end!!Honestly, do not waste your time. If you are considering this movie, please pick something else. Otherwise, you'll be sitting here like me wondering why you wasted 90 minutes of your life. I would have rather cleaned my closet. Seriously.

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.

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/*****).