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Whistle Stopper - Buried Alive
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List Price: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Good Times Home Video
Starring: Matheson, Leigh, Atherton
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305021292
Format: Color
ISBN: 6305021295
Label: Good Times Home Video
Manufacturer: Good Times Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Good Times Home Video
Release Date: 1998-05-20
Studio: Good Times Home Video
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Summary: See what happens if you piss off a good carpenter
Comment: Highly diverting made-for-cable horror suspense. Unfolds as if it were a collaboration of Poe and Dean Koontz, although the screenplay is by someone named Mark Patrick Carducci. Curl up with stiff drink and companion. And take notes on house remodeling!
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Summary: im just a little bit clastrophobic, really
Comment: this one pits Tim Matheson getting buried alive and then he rises again seeking his vengence. good movie with lots of good scenes. you gotta see it, and if your interested view the sequel with Ally Sheedy and Tim Matheson as well, but in that one Matheson dies(which was a bummer really).
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Summary: good movie but not really that scarey!
Comment: this is a good movie but its not really
that scarey. my friend has this movie, i saw it at her house like 3 or 4 times already. i really like it!
but its not that scarey, at first it was but now
it's really not that scarey. if you want a movie that
can give you chills or something then buy this movie!
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Summary: you can't keep a Goodman down
Comment: Director Frank Darabont has more skill at non-exploitive treatment than casting in this horror TVM. The teleplay by Mark Patrick Carducci based on a story by David A. Davies is thin, reading more like an anthology episode, with Jennifer Jason Leigh and her lover William Atherton planning the murder of Leigh's husband Tim Matheson. Darabont establishes the gothic terror of the title predicament, even if the act of revenge fails to duplicate the same level of dread.
The narrative has convenient plot contrivances - the haste of the burial bypassing the embalming procedure and cheap choise of coffin, rain allowing for a "resurrection" from a shallow grave, and especially the climactic house reconstruction - though Matheson's dog disliking JJL is an acceptable touch. The idea of JJL and Atherton fighting amongst themselves is meant to present them as disloyal characters though thankfully they have the sense to see it also weakens their position against a common foe.
JJL's femme fatale may have no subtlety - she has a bad dye job and is a chain smoker - but at least she has some honest moments. Matheson's earnestness cannot bring him tube empathy, and his Frankenstein-like coffin-wear scores a titter. And although Atherton is hardly the romantic type, he at least can deliver funny lines in "It never woulda worked darlin'. Too much of a slob" (funnier in the context), and "We got Jason upstairs and Cujo in the frontyard".
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