SyFy.co.uk is currently airing a new web-only series called Buried Alive – coming online in ten-minute episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. At the time of writing, episodes 1 to 3 are all online.
Let me give you the blurb from their press release:
After being attacked and kidnapped a handsome 20-something, Rick, awakes: trapped in a nightmarish coffin. He screams in vain for help, but visible with the kidnapper’s night-vision camera, etched in the corner of the coffin is the warning: save your breath. Rick quickly finds that he is not alone and a group of his friends have also been buried deep below the earth with the means to communicate only with each other.
On the surface, their hope lies with a brother-and-sister team Melanie (Brit Morgan) and Travis (Jeff Blum) who must piece together the abductor’s maniacal plot in order to rescue their friends before it’s too late.
BURIED ALIVE stars Brit Morgan, who is destined for great things after being cast in the hotly anticipated role of ‘Debbie Pelt’ in the third series of True Blood.
Also featured are: Jeff Blum, Bram Hoover, Nikki McKenzie, Greyson Chadwick, Natalie Wachen, JR May, Augusto Aguilar, and John Charles Meyer. The series is executive produced by John Norris & Paul Etheredge, who also served as director. Buried Alive is a White Rock Lake Production and is distributed by Sony Pictures Television.
Having watched the first three videos it sort of reminds me of the homespun style of the first Blair Witch movie. I’ve also heard this compared to Saw but, I have to admit, I haven’t seen any of the Saw films. If you have, I’ll have to rely on you being the judge of that :)
The first three episodes are a bit slow, but then they are just setting the scene. We don’t know who the kidnapper is, what the point is, but we have seen a few links between the victims… I’m sure there will be plenty of juicy details as we get further into the series. Oh, one thing though, episode 3 has an 18-rated logo on it. So, safe to assume the series isn’t for minors or the faint at heart.
Buried Alive looks like it’s going to develop into an interesting series. If it sounds like your thing, check it out here.
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