jimat9
Good film but could have been more plausible with a bit of forethought, i.e: Clint reaches up from the coffin & reaches the outside, the grave couldn't have been 6 foot deep, also did the sheriff at the end recognise Clint? apparently so, wouldn't he have wondered why he was standing over his own grave with a shovel & given the recently excavated area was clearly much bigger than a standard grave an immediate exhumation would be in order, thus rescuing the errant wife, recovering the money and giving the recently deceased slime-bag doctor a Christian burial but perhaps the ending was deliberately structured that way, being buried alive being probably number one on everybody's list of ways NOT to die the director wanted people to say " maybe the sheriff went back & dug.." I disagree with some of the other reviewers about the joinery though, it was basic partitioning and could have been accomplished in a night. All in all worth a look, reminds me of the old (1970s) Hammer 'Tales from the crypt' films.
ritaskeeter-1
This really is one of my favourite films and is definitely the best Tim Matheson film I have seen so far. If you haven't seen it then I can't recommend it enough! The sequel to this film isn't as good but worth watching if you enjoyed the first. Scenes where Tim Matheson's character is seen to move when inside a zipped up body bag in the morgue, and when he is on the undertaker's embalming table are chilling, and when he eventually wakes up after he's been buried and subsequently digs his way out, the film totally delivers on its promise to thrill. The music when he's stumbling through the cemetery is just perfect and will have you rooting for him as he plots his revenge on his uncaring wife. MUST SEE! :-)
Mick Johnston
This is a film, which although having a somewhat implausable story line, isentertaining enough to keep you watching until the end. Joanne (Jennifer Jason Leigh) plays the villianess of the film, administering the poison in an attempt to kill her husband and make off with the loot. She plays the part well, right up to the last part of the film which ends in an unliely manner with the interior of the house undergoing structural changes which would take weeks to do in real life.Notwithstanding this it does enough to be worth watching, indeed I have seen it on several occasions when there has been nothing to watch on the TV.
SentraWagon1982
*This contains spoilers*This is one truly great suspense movie. Basically, the story surrounds a couple, Joanna (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and Clint (Tim Matheson) who have moved to the country to start a new life away from the city. Joanna begins expecting a child and sees a doctor, Courtland, who is only interested in scamming Joanna out of the whole fortune Clint's carpentry business is worth. Joanna is not happy being with Clint in the country and wants out of her life. Courtland tells Joanna that he plans to build a clinic in Beverly Hills and says "this is a cash machine just waiting for us to plug into it". The only way to get the money was with Clint's business. Being a doctor, he devises a plan with Joanna to kill Clint by poisoning him so Joanna could sell his business and get the million and a half dollar fortune. Courtland's plan was almost fool-proof, except for one thing; Joanna's dead husband, only, he wasn't dead. Clint couldn't have thought up a better plan to take revenge out on his wife and the doctor. This movie is definitely worth seeing. The ending is unlike anything anybody could have ever expected. The plot is basic and straight forward, with a spectacular performance played by the actors, and a brilliantly written script. This movie is a good example of how greed can completely poison somebody's mind and ruin the lives of other people. Joanna and Courtland definitely deserved the torment they received by Clint's revenge for trying to kill him and ruining his life forever after. Another great movie which is similar to this is "Mortal Thoughts" (1990).
Movie rating: 10 out of 10
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