Maura Tierney was somewhat convincing as the main cop, playing a B-movie's Clarice Starling. For some reason, I liked the FBI agent's monologue on the death penalty a la lethal injection, but a lot was pretty bad. The script is quite bad, with some lines that I can't believe they wrote in. And even though the cops-pursuing-the-antagonist plotline is overused, it was quite tense, especially when you realize that there are only twenty-four hours to solve the mystery of where Frances is, and the kidnapper is not interested in talking, while his accomplice is nowhere to be found. As Frances is being buried, she is screaming and begging, struggling to survive, lying in that wooden box as the cover is being slipped on, with only a flashlight to depend upon. If anything, those first three to five minutes are terrifying. But then I saw the breathtaking first few minutes, and I was shocked. When I noticed it was from A-Pix, I groaned and figured I was in for an hour and a half of trash.
#Harry houdini buried alive movie#
I won't elaborate any more on the plot, only that this movie was surprisingly good. After witnessing a horrifying tape of Frances begging for help in the woods, the police must plot to catch the kidnappers and find the woman, all in twenty-four hours, or Frances will run out of oxygen and die. Move to New York City, where a cop, Madeline, is made aware of the predicament. They put her in the box, the man's accomplice mercifully slipping her the flashlight, and bury her, leaving her to scream in terror. They drive out to the woods somewhere, where she is terrified at the realization that they plan to bury her alive, holding her hostage for her rich husband's money. Before she knows it, he flashes a gun, dazes her by hitting her on the temple with it, and smuggles her into a car with a friend. A middle-aged woman, Frances, is walking her dog when she is approached by what seems like a mild-mannered man. The story seemed like a good one, and I was in a hurry for something, so I decided to give it a whirl. Roaming around Hollywood Video's New Releases, passing through theatre hits and theatre flops, and the the unending list of direct-to-video releases, I found this.
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