Enterré vivant 2

7 years later, someone decided to make a sequel to Buried Alive, but it doesn't seem like they had any major ideas for the story since this is nothing more than a gender swapped retread of the original film with a few forced connections to the first film so that it can feel comfortable calling itself a sequel.

This time around, Laura (Ally Sheedy) discovers a strange man (Tim Matheson who returns as Clint and directs the film) at her uncle's funeral and, at the same time, she's going through the same issues he went through in the first film as her husband Randy (Stephen Caffrey) plots with his mistress, Roxanne (Tracey Needham) to kill her.

Just as in the original, this poison doesn't work, Laura gets buried alive, breaks out, and gets revenge on her husband and his mistress.

If you haven't seen the original, Buried Alive II might work better for you. It's not a poorly made movie and the acting is fine, but it pales in comparison to the original, especially when you realize it's not bringing anything new to the table.

This movie, unlike the first part (Buried Alive), has a totally illogical and practically impossible plot. First of all, it attempts to include many of the elements (main actor, part of the old plot) of the first one. This badly achieved relation makes the movie even more illogical.

Also, the whole movie seems to be based only on a small idea for a sequel, and no attention is paid to the supporting story-line: there are many plot-holes; thus the story makes no sense.

Not as thrilling as (and harder to believe than) its predecessor.

Having taken revenge upon his wife for her conspiracy to murder him "Clint Goodman" (Tim Matheson) has returned to his small home town to pay his respects to his best friend who has recently died. Naturally, needing to conceal his identity he avoids people to a great extent but is spotted from a distance by his friend's niece "Laura Riskin" (Ally Sheedy). Although she doesn't recognize him at first she finally discovers the truth after a chance encounter later on. She also learns more details concerning why her uncle's good friend committed the actions that had been only rumors before. On that note, being her uncle's only living relative, she has inherited a sizeable amount of money which her husband "Randy Riskin" (Stephen Caffrey) wants all for himself--and his new mistress "Roxanne" (Tracey Needham). So taking his cue from those exact same rumors about how Clint was poisoned he has decided to use the same methods on Laura as well. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film borrowed much too heavily upon the same plot as its predecessor and as a result lacked originality. That said, although both Ally Sheedy and Tracey Needham performed quite well, the movie itself wasn't nearly as good as it could have been and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.

The story line for Buried Alive II and the first version of Buried Alive was about the same. In the first part, Tim Matheson was known as Clint Goodman who has a very beautiful wife Jennifer Jason Leigh as Joanna Goodman. Jennifer Jason Leigh was not satisfied with her husband therefore, she killed him.

This version is the same case. Stephen Caffrey is Randy Riskin and he had an unattractive wife Ally Sheedy as Laura Riskin. The obvious better choice is to have an affair with Tracey Needham as Roxanne.

But, script writers have not destroys beautiful woman like Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tracey Needham. They can't seem to understand that attractive woman want something more and all men love to be with attractive woman.

Tracey Needham's acting was extremely good.

Following on from the first film Sheriff Sam has died and his niece, Laura (Ally Sheedy) mourns his passing with her husband Randy (Stephen Caffrey). She also meets a shadowy figure at her uncle's grave who may be Clint (Tim Matheson)- a man who many thought died years ago. Meanwhile Randy hears the story of Clint and his murderous wife and plots with his girlfriend Roxanne (Tracey Needham) to carry out the same deviousness on Laura.

Was the first film so good that it justified a sequel? I've seen both so I can tell you no! This is not even a sequel but a lazy rehash of the first movie. The situation is reversed from the treacherous wife of the first to the husband here, but the poison is the same, the plot is the same, the problems are the same, the revenge is essentially the same. There is a slight change due to the involvement of Tim Matheson's character but he only floats around for a bit before vanishing, and anyway his character only confuses the issue rather than adding to the film. All the same problems with the first film are repeated here. Tim Matheson tries to copy Frank Darabont's direction, in many cases just copying the first shot for shot, but he's flogging a dead donkey and can't inject any tension into this.

The actors are C-rate versions of the first film's B-rate stars. Sheedy doesn't really convince as the vengeful wife while Caffrey doesn't seem like the sort to say boo! to a goose much less murder his wife. Matheson seems to exist in his own little film - halfway in you find out why he's in it at all but until then he just confuses the thing.

This is a pointless remake posing as a sequel. No one cares that all the old characters are tied back into the second film or that Matheson's back. It's all a bit pointless and the fact that it happens in the same town to people familiar with what happened last time round make it even less believable than the first film. the only upside is that the revenge is a bit more believable that the whole "building a massive wooden maze in a house" deal in the first film but it's still not great.

The film would have been better as a pure remake with the sexes switched and set in a new town with new people. The attempt to pass it off as a follow-on from the original with the same characters turns this poor film into a pointless, boring rubbish film.