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Buried Alive, Cort Van Owen (William Atherton)

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Film: Buried Alive (1990)
Deceased Character: Cort Van Owen (William Atherton)
Archetype: Baddy (Major)
Killed by: Clint Goodman (Tim Matheson)
Killed with: Poison


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Written by Mr. Mouseburger 21st Feb 2006

Kindly submitted by Ocafi

Doctor Cort van Owen is wooing a very tasty Joanna Goodman (q.v.), and the pair of them shares a nice sex life. Problem is, she's already married, and pregnant with her husband's child. So, the two lovers decide that the hapless and well-insured Clint will have to go.

Luckily, the good doctor knows his exotic tropical fish, and convinces Joanna to use it on her husband's dinner. This ploy is partly successful, although it does not kill her husband sufficiently well enough to be considered a complete success, but they bury him, only for Clint to escape from the grave. At this point, Clint is now plotting revenge, which he executes with a cleverly constructed maze, to which no exit exists.

He separates the two lovers by sliding sheets of plywood between them when they enter a dead-end. Of course, it's not a dead-end, but merely a form of control: he leaves Joanna while he attends to Cort, one-on-one.

The wall in front of Cort slides upwards, and he is led down a separate corridor until Clint confronts him directly. Cort's got a few tricks up his sleeve, though, hiding a syringe behind his back. It is filled, of course, with the same poison that didn't quite kill Clint last time, but in a much larger quantity. Clint, wearing a scary-looking welder's mask, is wise to the doc's advances, and easily sidesteps his attempt. The doc trips, the syringe plunges into his chest, and he ends up dying from a severe myocardial infarction. In layman's terms: his heart exploded.

Later on in the movie, his corpse is unceremoniously dumped in the casket of his lover, and the two schemers are buried together, except that Joanna is still alive. Nice and creepy.



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