![]() The film was released under two taglines which read "She planned on her husband's death. The film first premiered on May 9, 1990, on the USA Network. Carpenter stated that he turned the offer down because he only wanted to play a character that is killing someone, or about to, or if he's in bed with a beautiful woman. John Carpenter stated in the audio commentary for his film Vampires that Darabont (his close friend, who also had a cameo in that film) asked Carpenter to play a truck driver in Buried Alive. The film's budget was $2,000,000 and had the working title of Till Death Do Us Part. Clint and Duke drive away, and the final shot reveals that the still-alive Joanna, the dead Cortland, and the money all now occupy Clint's grave, with Joanna hopelessly screaming for help. Realizing it is Clint, Sam tells him to never come back, obliquely promising to keep his secret. Returning to the cemetery, Sam sees a man standing at Clint's filled-in grave. After the fire is extinguished, no bodies are found inside. ![]() He then loads it onto his truck and sets fire to the house. He dumps the dead Cortland and money inside what is now a large wooden coffin and nails it shut. Clint reveals himself to her and mentions their aborted child, asking if it was a boy or a girl. She crawls through the hatchway along a low passage to where it suddenly dead-ends, allowing Clint to shut her inside. Shortly afterwards, Joanna is trapped between Clint and a small hatch. Clint reveals himself a stunned Cortland tries to flee, but trips on the briefcase of money and falls on the syringe. At the end of a passage leading to an unblocked window, Cortland sees a shadowy figure and, thinking it's Sam, tries to bribe him. While trying to find a way out, they are led through a maze and separated. Exiting the basement, the pair finds that most of the house is now blocked off by wooden panels. They fight, and just as Cortland is about to use the syringe on Joanna, the basement door opens. Cortland reveals that there never was a clinic and that he was actually trying to rob both her and Clint in order to pay for a trip to the tropics. Joanna then finds the fish poison syringe and realizes that Cortland was going to kill her. In the house, Clint knocks out walls and moves furniture ominously. As Cortland regains consciousness, Joanna realizes her mistake. She then takes the money and tries to escape, but Clint locks them both inside. Believing Cortland to be the masked figure, Joanna knocks him unconscious, causing him to drop the syringe. Searching for Joanna, Cortland enters the basement. Arriving at Clint's house, he is unable to locate Joanna but finds the money in a suitcase on the bed, which he takes. Meanwhile, Cortland loads a syringe with more fish poison. Surprised, Joanna falls in the basement, knocking herself unconscious, and Clint locks her inside. Just as she's about to shoot the dog, Clint, disguised in a welding mask, appears from behind the open basement door. She frantically calls Cortland but gets his answering machine. Joanna finds the home's bathroom floor covered with mud. The next morning, Clint's friend Sheriff Sam Eberly discovers that Clint's grave has been disturbed and the body is missing. He hides in the basement to recuperate and overhears that Joanna was pregnant, and that she and Cortland had his child aborted secretly. After breaking through the coffin and escaping his grave, he returns to his house and learns the truth about his wife and Cortland. However, Joanna instructs that Clint be given a quick funeral, skipping the embalming process and choosing a cheap, water-damaged casket for him.Ĭlint, surviving the diluted poisoning, wakes up, buried alive. After drinking the poisoned wine, Clint has a heart attack and seems to die, but while his body is at the morgue, he shows signs of life. While having dinner with Clint, Joanna begins to have a change of heart but still spikes his wine with some of the poison. Cortland gives Joanna poison, taken from a tropical fish. They conspire to kill Clint and sell his company and house, with Joanna's reason to move back to Beverly Hills and buy a clinic. ![]() Joanna has been having an affair with local doctor Cortland van Owen. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and has often been overlooked in Darabont's directorial catalogue due to the success of his later films.Ĭlint Goodman is a successful contractor who lives with his wife Joanna. Buried Alive is a 1990 American made-for-television horror thriller film directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton and Hoyt Axton.
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