Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

damacles6 I've seen this movie before-about 17 years ago! It was called Buried Alive and starred Tim Matheson and Jennifer Jason Leigh and aired on the USA cable network. The plot was nearly identical the only difference was happened after the husband comes back. Buried Alive was better written, directed, and acted. Taken on it's own merits, Living Death was okay but nothing special. Having seen Buried Alive, Living Death was monotonous at best. Kristy Swanson was cardboard. None of the characters were developed fully. There was waaaay too much going on. Which I'm sure was intentional to make the simple-minded viewer not realize that the story couldn't stand on it's own. What was the deal with the med students? Did we really need them for the plot? Nope. I would watch this movie again.

sol **SPOILERS** Another coming back from the dead horror flick involving this good for nothing playboy Victor Harris, Greg Bryk, who's both fascinated and obsessed with medieval torture devices. This is something that Victor picked up from his crazy and now deceased father who was a certified triple A nut case. It was Victor's dad who locked himself up in his personal dungeon and never saw the light of day for 17 years until he died of a massive heart attack at the age of 55.Having his good friend and personal lawyer Roman Arbogast, Joshua Peace, write up his last will and testament Victor is adamant that at the time of his death he's to be buried immediately without having been autopsied or embalmed. This wish on Victor's part fits right into the plans of both Roman and Victor's cheating and gold digging wife Elizaebth, Krisy Swanson. The two besides being secret lovers are also planning to do Victor in and, with Elizabeth inheriting all his money, shearing in all of Victor's goodies.Slipping a deadly Japanese blow fish poison into Victor's Chinese food both Roman & Elizabeth have him go into suspended animation where he's clinically dead but actually fully alive. Looking for all intents and purposes that Victor died of a sudden heart attack, like his father, all that's needed to seal the deal for the two lovers is to have Victor buried before he wakes up! As you would imagine in movies like this not everything goes according to plan. As things turn out these three klutzy med students at the morgue where Victor's body is being prepared for burial end up messing everything up; to the point where they become Victor's first victims in the film.Grossed out but not at all convincing the movie despite all its gory and disgusting splatter scenes is neither scary or makes any bit of sense at all. Victor does come back from the dead with his guts hanging out of his stomach, and minus two fingers, but he's so ridicules and off the wall, as well as unconvincing, that you wonder why he didn't stay dead in the first place!Both Roman and Elizabeth found out that Victor is alive and well, and also mad as hell at them, after he offed Malanine Person, Kelsey Matheson, and called them on her phone to brag about it. Malanine was a person whom Victor crippled and who, by spiting on him as he was laying in state, dissed him at his funeral.****SPOILERS*** The both outrageous and blood splattering ending of the movie showed just how totally divorced from reality both Roman and Elizabeth were by letting Victor have his way with, and fully knowing what he had in store for, them without as much as putting up a fight! That's until Roman lost his both arms legs as well as his life with Elizabeth, who it turned out was pregnant by Roman, finally getting up enough courage and put a final end to Victor's mad dreams of revenge!Besides the bunch mixed nuts in the film that included its top cast members, Victor Roman Elizabeth and the wacky med student's, we also had to sit and suffer through weirdo like Mr. Freed, Troy Yorke, the spaced out junkie. Mr. Freed supplied Roman with his junk, drugs, that he used to put Victor both in and out of his grave. There's also in the film the notorious but now behind bars Unabomber, Chris Cordell, who after being given a 24 hour pass from the prison authorities made a both cameo and guest appearance in the movie.

rick-m I almost gave up on this movie, it seemed like a drama going nowhere. After almost getting bored with the minimal acting some action kicked in with unexpected humour. Just when the laughs were rolling it turned into a gory horror movie. I gave it what for me is a pretty high rank just because it was able to switch so quickly and keep my attention. If you got an hour and half of hanging out with some friends who are OK with some gory scenes but are not big fans of movies devoted to gore-genre but want a taste of some gore with some humour thrown in then this is the movie for you . Don't watch for an emotionally enriching experience or to be challenged by the plot.

dtlongo (Spoiler alert: partially discloses plot)This flick is not as bad as I might have thought. It actually has a somewhat interesting plot. The sound quality stinks though, turn it up high enough to hear the dialogue and the "music" (such as it is) is overwhelmingly loud and blasts you away.Caddish rich-heir-from-Daddy husband, sexy wife (yum, great kisser) and her lover, his best friend. Wife and lover off the cad with blowfish-poison. Only he doesn't die, he is paralyzed like dead but still sees and hears everything but can't move a muscle ("Living Death"). He wakes up on the autopsy table and goes on a revengefest. A medieval torture stretching rack features twice in this horror-genre flick. Daddy had a hobby, a fully equipped attic medieval dungeon that hubby, and implicitly his wife, use for fun and games. The movie starts with yon cad entertaining a lady friend up there with some erotic moderate stretching on a large angled rack (severe unpadded heavy iron manacles, ouch). Things go awry when his wife surprises them. Startled, he leans too hard on the lever and damages the rackee. One gets an impression of the rack's dismembering strength but pictures of the mechanism are unpersuasive, just closeups of gears meshing and chains and ropes tightening. The rack figures again at the end of the movie in the vengeancefest, this time as a torture and execution means. No erotic BDSM this time, but pain and dismemberment. The scene suggests the horror of the real thing beyond erotica when it was used for torture and punishment, much less execution. Anyway, I've seen worse horror-genre flicks. If you're a rack aficionado it's worth a look.