kai ringler i couldn't help but think of "Buried Alive" when i watched this one,, i like the part where the husband takes his love interest up to the attic,, she is kinky , and well she don't know he's into torture until of course it's too late,, the husband is drunk, uses drugs, pulls guns.. just not a great guy,, so his best friend the lawyer, and the husband's wife conspire to have the husband killed, the lawyer comes up with a toxin , thru a drug connection of his,, they mix it up in his Japanese take out,, he eats it , and bang instant death,, or so we think........ wrong,, doesn't happen he is just temporarily paralyzed, then when he wakes up , he is already being covered over,, and thrown into the ground, by some med students trying to cover up what they had done to him,, operate on a living guy,, instead of a dead one,, so he goes on a killing spree,, i mean wouldn't you be mad if you were buried alive,, scuse the pun.. excellent movie though.

trashgang The sales are on for the moment so it was time to go hunting. I noticed the cover of this movie. A torture scene in the style of SAW so I thought this is a torture porn flick. Two girls are on the cover under blood with let's say, both having more then melons. So you can guess, I bought it. Now that I have seen the movie I can't understand why I bought it. The cover NEVER appears in the movie. Should have known after all those years that covers with naked chicks on it or big boobies are teasers for trash. I should have remembered Gutterballs were it's advertised as a hardcore one.Anyway. The movie starts of pretty well with a guy taking a girl to his house, after a while they arrive at the attic were a torture device stands. The girl gets tortured, suspense, and suddenly this guy's wife appears. End of the scene. Then we get to know the characters, he's a real asshole so his wife and a friend decide to kill him, he returns as a "living death" in the last 23 minutes, then the horror really get's going. The gore is intact and the red stuff flows. It's a shame that between the first 5 and the last 23 minutes nothing really happens. It could have been a really nice flick. I'm not a freak but with all the sex going on and the torture of the girl they could have shown some flesh, but they decided not do do it. Kristy Swanson, the main lead appeared in a lot of movies but never goes full monty. So if you are able to see this flick, watch it without expecting anything and enjoy the gore at the end.

slayrrr666 "Living Death" is a below-average, yet still somewhat interesting feature.**SPOILERS**After his father's death, Victor Harris, (Greg Bryk) rushes home to his wife Elizabeth, (Kristy Swanson) the good news about his rich inheritance payoff. At his birthday party, she decides that she's had enough of his behavior, and plots with her lover, Roman Arbogast, (Joshua Peace) also his lawyer, to kill him so that they can live off his money. Going through with their plans to do him in, he is successfully poisoned and declared dead by the authorities. In the midst of a round of legal battles over what to do with the body, they find out that the drugs that were used may not have been lethal and that he could still b alive. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself buried alive, and remembering what happened to him, sets out to avenge his death before they can find him and stop him.The Good News: When it tries to, this one has some pretty good stuff to it. It's pretty much just about the few good moments in here that derive most of the film's watchability. The regeneration sequence, which occurs during the autopsy, is one of it's best scenes, as the surgeries done for the autopsy allow for some brutality in all the snapping limbs and torn-open details, and the creepiness of being awake during the procedure is played up and used nicely in here to good effect. Even better is that it leads to one of the better gore scenes around, as there's some nice kills and bloodshed unleashed in the massacre afterward. The opening to the film also works, as the introduction done with the walk-through of the creepy house up into the torture museum is pretty nice, leading to some really nice atmospheric shots, and the tense and creepy torture museum is capped off with a fantastic pay-off. The poisoning scene is pretty great, just with an extra inclusion of the description of the symptoms making it come off rather nicely. The general ease of the situation is merely an added bonus. The ending here is also really great, as the return to the torture museum makes it feel really uneasy, there's plenty of gore to pay-off the dryness of what came before, and with some really tense moments of stalking go before it, and overall is one of the best features of the film. These here are the film's big positive points.The Bad News: This one here doesn't have a whole lot of flaws, but the ones that are here are pretty big. The main one in here is that, outside of the mentioned scenes earlier, there's nothing at all that keeps the interest level in the film. Far too often it's just deadly dull, as nothing happens, there's no atmosphere or tension or it's a collection of scenes that serve the plot for no purpose. There's simply no need to see the birthday party in here, as the dancing, drinking and poker game provide nothing of interest and are just a collection of scenes that offer up a bunch of time in the film for no real reason. The numerous liaisons between them don't amount to much, and the way that they go about this doesn't offer It's also undone by the fact that the drug isn't slipped until the forty minute mark, so there's a bunch of scenes that are before that which make the film so deathly dull since nothing happens until then which actually gets the plot moving, and once it does, it's another long period before he's up and revived, making for a long, long period of time before the film actually does anything that's worth watching. The fact that the ending to the film is also pretty off, mainly due to how rushed it is. There's a sense that it's over really quickly, and for no reason is there to be so rushed. It just ends really quickly, and there's a sense that it should've been milked more than what's given. That's one of the biggest flaws here, and combined with the dullness really saps the film of most of it's power.The Final Verdict: With a few isolated scenes here and there that make it enjoyable and a couple of pretty big flaws, there's something here but not a whole lot. Give it a shot if you're interested or just think it's worth a look, but this one really won't mean much if it's skipped or outright ignored altogether.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language

julian kennedy Living Death: 5 out of 10: If you ever wondered what Body Heat 2 would look like if remade this year and having Kathleen Turner reprising her original role this movie may clue one in? Kristy Swanson hasn't spent much time on the big screen since the mid-nineties and she looks like she has been eating a lot of her namesakes Hungry Man dinners. Don't get me wrong she is attractive as a full-figured woman it simply was a bit disconcerting after not seeing her for a dozen years or so. She certainly hasn't spent that time fine tuning her thespian craft however as she is defiantly the acting weak point in this little drama.The plot has Shannon Tweed/ Tim Matheson written all over it. Abusive do nothing playboy husband is killed by suffering wife and his best friend/lawyer who is now her lover. Only problem is that they choose a poison that if given in the wrong dose only causes the person to appear dead. D'oh.He comes back and gets revenge on everyone who wronged him. Sounds like your very standard erotic thriller except it isn't.There is no nudity and virtually no sex. The only bondage is the decidedly non-erotic leg breaking kind. This is a straight up horror movie and it puts the pedal to the metal.Main lead Greg Byrk captures our evil protagonist's hedonism perfectly. (The scene where he snorts coke while playing videogames is a classic.) The revenge isn't fair or just it is bloody and cruel.This creates a great vibe in the film as the only guy to root for is a remarkably unlikable rogue. In fact the film has virtually not one likable hero style character giving an almost Bad Santa feel to the proceedings.The film picks up the pace about halfway through and never lets go. Not a great film or a genre classic by any means but certainly an entertaining horror film.