Buried Alive (1990 TV film)
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American/UK VHS cover of Buried Alive
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| Genre | Thriller, horror |
| Screenplay by | Mark Patrick Carducci |
| Story by | David A. Davies |
| Directed by | Frank Darabont |
| Starring |
Tim Matheson Jennifer Jason Leigh William Atherton Hoyt Axton |
| Theme music composer | Michel Colombier |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Niki Marvin |
| Cinematography | Jacques Haitkin |
| Editor(s) | Richard G. Haines |
| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Niki Marvin Productions Universal Television |
| Distributor | USA Network |
| Budget | $2,000,000 |
| Release | |
| Original network | USA Network |
| Original release | May 9, 1990 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Buried Alive II (1997) |
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.
Clint Goodman is a successful contractor who built his comfortable house and his construction company in his hometown through hard work. He loves his wife Joanna, but she is very resentful to him most of the time; they have been trying unsuccessfully to have a baby. Clint's best friend is Sheriff Sam Eberly and every now and then they spend the night fishing in the lake.
Unknown to Clint, Joanna has been having an affair with the local doctor Cortland van Owen. The lovers plot to kill Clint and sell his company and his house, then move to Beverly Hills to buy a clinic. Cortland gives poison to Joanna, which is taken from a rare poisonous tropical fish. She is hesitant at first to go along with the idea but changes her mind; when they are having dinner she spikes Clint's wine with the poison. Clint has a heart attack and dies. When the coroner asks if an autopsy should be done, Cortland refuses. While Clint is at the morgue he shows signs of life and just before he is to be embalmed, Joanna gives him a quick and cheap funeral instead, skipping the embalming process. Clint is put in a cheap water-damaged coffin, varnished to look like new. After his funeral, Joanna and Cortland celebrate.
During a stormy night, Clint, who has surprisingly survived the dosage, wakes up buried alive, and succeeds in escaping his grave. He goes to his house and finds the truth about his wife and the doctor. He hides himself downstairs in the basement to recuperate. The next morning, Joanna meets with a lawyer to discuss about selling his business for $1,500,000. Clint wakes up and plans to kill Joanna, but when Cortland comes by to pay a visit, he overhears that Joanna was pregnant and Cortland had conducted an abortion of his child behind his back, Clint changes his mind about shooting Joanna, believing it to be too easy, and after he cleans himself up and tends to his wounds, he plots a dark revenge against Joanna and Cortland.
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