“I’ve done far worse than kill you. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on… hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her. Marooned for all eternity, in the center of a dead planet… buried alive. Buried alive.” – Khan Noonien Singh
As “buried alive” goes, James Kirk had it pretty good – lots of space, food, and oxygen. Today on Caustic Soda we’ll take a look at the far more gruesome examples of being… (whispers over the communicator) buried alive.
Music: “Diggin’ Up the World” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets off their album “Great Old Ones” (c) 2010
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Videos
Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Toren: 10/10
Kevin:10/10
Joe: 10/10
Kill Bill 2
Toren: 5/10
Kevin: 7/10
Joe: 7/10
The Prestige
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 7/10
Casino
Toren: 8/10
Kevin: 8/10
Blood Simple
Toren: 8/10
Kevin:8/10
The Mummy
Toren: 4/10
Kevin: 6/10
Joe: 6/10
Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Vincent Price, Barbara Steele
Toren: 6/10
I’m not sure how you guys missed this one but how about the film ‘Buried Alive’ with Jennifer Jason Leigh?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099188/
Also, I recall this story from earlier in the year about a Turkish girl getting buried alive so I went and found you a link…
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/761525–woman-buried-alive-to-save-family-reputation
There was also the classic walled-in story Edgar Allen Poe’s Cask of Amontillado. Poe loved him some immurement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cask_of_Amontillado
Something the ‘escape from a coffin’ process overlooks is this: it is rare (at least in American, where in most states there are a variety of laws preventing it) for a coffin, wooden or otherwise, to be placed directly into the ground. Generally, the coffin itself is placed within a concrete container (sometimes called a vault) before the entire thing is covered in dirt. My understanding this is in part to prevent the terrible embalming chemicals from leaving into the surrounding soil over time (also, because the vault is air/water tight, it increases the length of preservation of the corpse).
When Joe stopped whispering “buried alive” part way through the podcast, I kept on doing it all on my own.
WRATH OF KHAN REFERENCES = WIN. ALWAYS.
Check out CSI Season 5 Episodes 24/25 (this was in 2005) directed by Quentin Tarantino where ‘Nick Stokes’ get buried alive. Very intense!
Awesome music on this one, guys. Oh, and I think there have been a couple of buried alive incidents on Bones too.