I wish someone could tell me how many horror films are going to be named "Buried Alive" when it's all said and done? Yes I know, it's a question without an answer. This version of this extremely overused title introduces two cousins Zane (Jay) and Rene (Rachel) who are traveling to family estate in the middle of the desert. Rene arrives with two pledges from her sorority and her boyfriend Danny (Sandvoss). A slumming Tobin Bell plays Lester, the family loser who warns everyone to beware of an ex-family member who was a desert witch (Beth Biasella) and burned alive for her gold years ago. Make up effects man Robert Kurtzman is a wizard in his craft but this time he sits in the director's chair and the results are far from good. This thin excuse for a plot isn't helped by Kurtzman parading around all his actresses nude and then having characters split in half with an Ax. Of course every character is written and played as a complete asshole including lead Leah Rachel who takes the prize as a complete bitch! Apparently the writers felt like the characters should have another layer other than being asshole's so they came up with the idea to make them blithering idiots as well. If watching these lousy characters don't wear you down, the fact that it takes forever before the deranged desert witch show's up and does anything will. The sad part of this is that the film's monster, the desert witch has a great look and is quite scary. Kurtzman uses her well like in the scene where you see her in the distant in the middle of the desert as they drive by. This repeats several times until suddenly she is in the middle of the road. Kurtzman's F/X efforts certainly helped and a few chilling bits are included. Still, the movie can't seem to manage a Jump anywhere in its running time despite having a creepy looking killer. This killer in a different movie with a good script would be something to be excited about.

Zane, with help from the campus dork, goes to his childhood home, with his friends, as well as two sorority pledges, in tow. The caretaker of the place, the gold hunting, Lester (Saw's Tobin Bell) warns the gang not to go certain places but of course they don't listen. Not to soon afterwards they must contend with a violent ghost.The plot was cliché, the characters cardboard cutouts, not to mention a hint of incest that didn't add anything to the proceedings. I believed that if nothing else positive could be gleamed from this rather pedestrian slasher that special effects guru Robert Kurtzman as director would at least be adept enough to serve up some heaping helpings of spectacular kills, sadly this isn't the case as it seems strangely subdued in that aspect. On a side note, writer Art Monterastelli would totally and completely redeem himself with 2008's Rambo (a film that was simply spectacular)Eye Candy: Erin Lokitz shows T&A, and Lindsey Scott gets toplessMy Grade: D+Where I saw it: Sho Beyond

I hate to see all the bad reviews and bad ratings. The movie isn't anything spectacular, but as a slasher movie it's great. This movie is a good time, and Tobin Bell is what really makes it. A couple of kids go out to their families mansion out in the middle of the desert with no one around but Old Lester. The film has a thin story line that could have been good but they didn't really do anything with it to make it very effective. The best parts in the movie are when Lester the caretaker played by Tobin Bell shows up to mess with the kids and what not, he's definitely the most entertaining part of the movie, but you have to give props on the ending. The villain one of the best I've seen in a slasher in a long time, and the ending is one of the most realistic I've seen in a slasher. One girl goes to get the car, she pulls up to the house waiting for her friends to come out, she waits a while but then she says the heck with that and she takes off without them. Overall I found this one very enjoyable, it's a fun little movie that has some good points in it.

Again and again I'm warning people not to fall for words on DVD covers like "starring Tobin Bell from Saw" or "it's gory". Even made by the director of Wishmaster, the ghost looks like the Wishmaster 20 years older, this is total crap. It's never frightening or scary. And nothing happens until the last 15 minutes. Tobin is in it, alright, but performs maybe 15 minutes in the movie, and is just a guy. The movie never really starts, it's more about belonging in the group and doing things to belong to the group. So here we go, of course it's the girls who have to do things like, dress yourself with one piece of clothing. Do I have to say more, one chooses only to wear her jeans the other to wear her boots. So naked they go, you think, even there it goes terrible wrong. The black haired one, Erin Lokitz, is running around naked but always covering her boobs. Men, if you know you have to do this and you don't want to do it don't take the role, you know what I mean. And look, I'm talking more about those part of the movie then the blood part. it's easy, it's all done in CGI, and CGI never is and never will be scary or gory. It could have done so beautifully, the storyline is there but next time, Kurtzman, do it in the old fashion way without CGI and if you are teasing with nudity do it full frontal as in MBV remake and Friday the 13th remake. Bury this movie, alive