Translation: Spoilers ahead. In the movie, the protagonist Paul Conroy, is buried with a cell phone because his captors want to keep communication with him.
And, he can receive and send video? According to this article on Today I Found Out Online , you could manage to crawl out if you allowed some of the dirt to came in. The Fall of the House of Usher , which had the insane Roderick Usher accidentally entombing his sister alive in the family vaults. The Cask of Amontillado , in which the narrator uses this method to exact a Disproportionate Retribution upon Fortunato.
In The Black Cat , the protagonist ends up murdering his wife in a fit of fury directed at the title cat, and "buries" her in his basement wall. When the police inspect his house, they're led to the tomb by the cat's screams, the protagonist having buried it alive with her without noticing it. Individual works and All That implies this happened somehow to Edward I, who "died of suffocation at a place called Burrow-in-the-Sands. Mulch Diggums, a dwarf whose entire race can dig through the dirt using only their jaws and hands and breathe while doing so, convinces two dumb henchmen to do this to him.
Needless to say, he has a good laugh about it afterwards. Hell, he has a good laugh during the burial, which he passes off as "shaking in fear". Right, Mulch. David Eddings had his sorcerer Belgarath do this, near the end of the The Belgariad : Zedar the apostate was Buried Alive for eternity in the center of the earth for a millennia-long life of crimes, the last one being the brutal murder of Belgarath's daughter's beloved mate Durnik.
He also mentions in his own spin-off books that details his origin that if he could ever confirm his suspicions that Zedar was involved in the suicides of two of their fellow Aldur followers, he would put him somewhere even less pleasant than where he is now. In The Black Spider , the eponymous immortal monster kills people and beasts indiscriminately until a woman manages to lure it into a hole in a wooden beam; then she hammers a peg into the hole to seal it away forever.
In Tanya Huff 's Blood Books series, vampire Henry Fitzroy started his unlife buried alive for three days before his sire could dig him up. Several hundred years later, this is still a Very Unpleasant Memory. An interesting take on this trope came from The Count of Monte Cristo when Edmond makes his escape from the prison. He plans to switch places with the body of his friend and mentor and once he is buried in the shallow grave, dig himself out.
He has to change his plans rather quickly when, instead of burying him, the guards proceed to chuck him over a cliff into the ocean.
The Criminal Minds book Killer Profile mentions a serial killer whose MO was burying his victims in homemade coffins, which had pipes leading to the surface, so they could breathe. The guy also enjoyed giving his victims false hope by leaving them with a bit of water and hammer they could try and escape with. Discworld : A variation of the trope occurred in The Light Fantastic. One particularly old wizard was not at all interested in a close encounter with Death, so he'd holed himself up in a box that nobody and nothing could get into once it was shut.
Including light and, more importantly, air. Death: Dark in here, isn't it? Live-Action TV. Early in the seventh season of 24 , Jack and Tony are working undercover with a mercenary organization to discover who hired them, but are found out by FBI Agent Walker.
To keep their cover up, Jack fakes killing her, but they're still under watch and on orders to get rid of the body, so he and Tony have to do this to her to keep suspicions down.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents : The classic episode, "Breakdown", has Joseph Cotton paralyzed in a car accident and taken for dead. He is saved at the last minute when an alert coroner notices a tear glimmering in his eye.
The '80s version of the show had an episode where a woman tried to escape from prison by hiding in the coffin the next time someone at the prison dies. Unfortunately, the next to die is the man who was supposed to dig her up. Worse yet, she doesn't find out until after they're buried. This one is a remake of an episode from the original series, with Roddy McDowall as the prisoner. Alias : In the final episode, Sloane, who has become somewhat immortal due to a Rambaldi thingy, has this happen to him.
He's trapped in a cave with his legs pinned after Jack a good guy blows himself up. Sydney herself had this happen to her as well in a previous episode, leaving Marshall to find out her location before she suffocates. A rare example of a hero doing this to a villain on All My Children , which had the evil Dr. Madden buried alive while the voice of his unseen abductor tormented him, refusing to release him until he revealed the location of a missing child.
This went on for several days before the man finally drowned when a rainstorm flooded the vent that had been providing him with oxygen. In , on Days of Our Lives , crazy Vivian hated Carly so much that she injected Carly with some Chinese herbs, forcing her into a seemingly dead state, had an open casket funeral with all Carly's loved ones, buried her with a radio to taunt her, some water and enough oxygen to prolong the slow torture and the rolled over her grave, laughing.
Carly was saved just in time, though she seems quite traumatized by it all to this day. Not that we can blame her. Angel : This was done to a previous occupant of Cordelia's apartment. In the apartment walls!
Connor welds Angel into a metal box and drops him to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean at the end of season 3. This doesn't kill Angel, since he's immortal and doesn't need to breathe , but instead makes him weak and insane from hunger. Of course, this was kind of the point. Are You Afraid of the Dark? In Being Human US , being buried alive is used as a form of punishment for vampires. Their nature means they won't suffocate or be crushed by the soil, but they will grow very weak and slowly go insane from hunger.
Suren was buried alive for over 80 years , and Season 2 ends with Aidan buried alive. The original series really takes this up to eleven. Ghost Alex is trapped in her own coffin by [ The Devil and buried alive as the cliff-hanger to the final episode. However, as it's her own coffin, she is trapped in their with her own body, which is in the state you'd expect given she died a year ago.
Big Wolf on Campus. When Merton discovers that Corey Haim is a real vampire, Corey knocks him out and buries him. Merton phones Tommy, whose werewolf senses are sharp enough to pick up where he is.
In one episode of Blindspot , Jane is kidnapped and spends most of the episode buried in a wooden coffin with only a cell phone and flashlight and must use the clues of her environment dirt, wildlife, any local sound to help the team locate her. They'd previously helped identify the remains of twin boys who'd died after the Gravedigger left them buried alive inside a metal tank. As the name implies, this villain's M. One episode of Boomtown featured the body of a dead fraternity pledge wrapped in plastic and hidden within the walls of a house.
Investigation of former friends eventually reveals that he was knocked out dead during a hazing ritual and his freaked-out friends wrapped the body in plastic and hid him inside the walls. Only near the end of the episode is the awful truth revealed: The man was alive when they hid him inside the walls and the last shot of the episode shows a flashback from his POV, waking up inside the walls, wrapped in plastic and unable to have his screams heard because of the loud rap music Buffy the Vampire Slayer , in the Season 1 episode "Nightmares", the residents of Sunnydale have their nightmares literally come true, so Buffy is buried alive.
Rumor has it that this trope is one of Sarah Michelle Gellar's greatest fears. Apparently, Joss Whedon does not settle for merely tormenting his characters. In season 6, Buffy is brought back to life after already being buried, but since her friends think the spell didn't work, they don't bother to dig her coffin up.
She has to dig her way out, something she clearly finds traumatizing. Also, since vampires die when they are sired before they rise again, they are often buried and forced to dig themselves out when they wake up.
Happens to Nick in CSI. He is rescued, though not until he's suffered quite a lot. She gets arrested along with him. A case in season 6 episode "Up in Smoke" leads to another body that was found sealed into a recently expanded brick chimney wall.
Catherine and Sara make reference to Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado when they realize the victim wasn't dead yet when she was being sealed up. However, it turns out his wife had an affair with the doctor who helped him fake his death.
The wife and the doctor planned to let him die for real in his coffin, but the victim manages to dig himself out and inject both of them with Tetrodotoxin before succumbing to a head wound the doctor gave him in the struggle. They hastily dig him up after realizing their error. Cold Case : There was an episode where a teenage boy had been buried alive. The killer in question walks into the station something years later to confess to the murder—and reveal that he has just buried another victim.
The episode is spent trying to determine his motives for both attacks and find the second victim before he suffocates fortunately, they find him. Also the MO of serial killer "John Smith", who kills his victims after weeks of psychological torture by entombing them in the cells where they've been held.
Control Z : Ernesto and Daria are buried in a coffin together by the avenger in Season 2. They manage to get located and rescued in time before their air runs out. Criminal Minds : In the episode "Scared to Death", there was a killer who, under guise of "getting you over your phobia," trapped you in your worst fear and then waited until you scared yourself to death.
The final victim was a bit more direct cause of near-death — and this was the trope to do it, too. Instead of the usual way of doing it in a grave , he drops the victim down a shaft and then pours bags of potting soil down it. The soil eventually went over her head, leading to this. In the episode "Revelations", the killer forced Reid to start digging his own grave so he could bury him alive. The BAU saves the day, though. One episode of Crossing Jordan involved a serial killer who buries his victims alive — with a walkie-talkie so he can hear their dying pleas.
This comes back to haunt him literally a century later when his ghost breaks free. Barnabas himself was trapped in his chained-shut coffin back in colonial times by his father, who couldn't bring himself to drive a stake through his vampiric son's heart.
Presumably Barnabas wasn't conscious during the intervening centuries, as he isn't a raving basket case when a would-be tomb robber unchains him. Done in EastEnders. There were widespread complaints due to this going out pre- Watershed , which were upheld by Ofcom. The Following : In the penultimate season 1 episode, Debra Parker is tied up and thrown in a coffin by a couple of cultists, who proceed to bury it while she screams for help.
The "king" of Qarth in Game of Thrones gets this ending. He's locked in a rather spacious treasure vault with his girlfriend, and no food or water. This is a rare heroic version of it, as they both truly deserved it. He sold out his honored guests to someone who not only killed the town leaders, but tried to steal their dragons and either kill them or keep them there forever ; she betrayed the mistress she'd sworn to serve for life by helping him do it. They did all of this under the guise of trying to help the heroes, when they really wanted was riches with which to fill said vault General Hospital : Ryan Chamberlain faked his death to escape from the asylum.
In an episode of Good Vs Evil , Chandler is buried alive by Morlocks, and spends most of the episode talking to Henry on his cell, going over the details of the previous night, hoping to figure out where he is. He's being used as a hostage, so that the Corps will release a Morlock prisoner: Emmanuel Lewis. Heroes : In a rare example of a hero doing this, Hiro assures the other heroes that the immortal Adam Monroe will never hurt another person. Cut to Adam screaming in a coffin , buried in the same cemetery where Hiro's father who Adam killed, was interred.
Also, as retribution for all the crimes he had committed against not just the world, but Parkman's wife only minutes before, Parkman locks Sylar in his own mind, alone and powerless. Not only that, to prevent anyone from finding him and trying to help, he seals Sylar up behind a wall in his basement.
Not only THAT, while Sylar was trapped in his own mind doomed to wander New York City alone forever, his super fast brain had an increased perception of time, making every second he spent in reality feel like days. Even though he got better and was really only buried alive for about half an hour, over three years had passed in his mind. A couple of implied instances in Highlander : Nefertiri took poison and was mummified after the death of Cleopatra.
As far as the audience knows, she stayed unconscious for all years until set free by Duncan MacLeod. Quentin Barnes was executed for murder 30 years ago and was accidentally freed by a construction project. It turns out Barnes was the split personality of Duncan's friend Michael Moore. Moore experienced those years as a nightmare. Another Immortal, a Nazi, was "killed" with a pitchfork, wrapped in chains and tossed into a river during World War II.
It took him 50 some years to free himself and come back for revenge. Due to the nature of the show, there are several more where someone "died" and was buried, only to recover once they're in the ground. In The Incredible Hulk , David Banner faced one of his most horrific situations when he is confused for a lookalike gangster and rival gangsters capture him, ignore his protests that they have the wrong man and take him to a construction site. There, they force him into a shallow grave, put a sheet of clear plastic on him and pour concrete on him to bury him alive.
When you see that kind of murder method, you're on the edge of your seat until the very last image of Banner just before his head is covered is his eyes going green to start his change into the Hulk. JAG : Mentioned in the 3rd season episode "Vanished". The villain orders one of his underlings to kill the hostage and bury them in the woods. The underling seems to interpret this literally by asking if they are to be buried alive.
He locks her in an old fridge with an air tank and holds her for his bargaining chip when the detectives finally catch him. In another episode, a pedophile buries the little girl he has kidnapped just before the SVU investigators catch up with him.
They dig her up just in time. In "Harm" a cop turned defense attorney tells Casey Novak that the case that ended his police career involved a young girl being buried alive: he had tortured the suspect for the girl's location, and as a result, all the evidence was thrown out in court. However, as the girl was found alive, he makes it very clear he still believes he did the right thing. Don't worry, he left him a straw. He managed to single-handedly escaped thanks to his "manly tote bag".
Leverage : Parker did this to herself once as a child to cure herself of a fear. She thought it was a normal thing to do. The team told her it was not. Then in the season 4 episode, "The Grave Danger Job," as the Leverage crew investigates an embezzling funeral director, Hardison is buried alive in a cemetery by a Mexican drug cartel to whom the funeral director has been selling ID information stolen from the deceased who go through her funeral parlor.
Life : In "Dig a Hole", Crews and Reese receive a case where the body of a Zen instructor is found in a construction site. What makes the case more interesting is the fact the body was buried alive. Yuan Zhi locks her in a coffin even though he knows she's still alive, then has his allies throw the coffin in a grave and start to fill the grave in.
The whole time Tan Qi is awake and screaming to be let out. She's rescued just before she loses consciousness. On Lost , Nikki and Paolo are buried alive, but it's because the Losties think they're dead after being paralyzed by a poison. She Faces Death With Dignity until the last few seconds of the episode when she suddenly remembers a Chekhov's Gun from earlier which enables her to escape. The Mentalist : The victim in the episode "Red Rover, Red Rover" was killed by being locked in a locker at an abandoned factory.
Jane later buries the suspect alive to force a confession actually part of his plot to fake a mental breakdown to set a trap for Red John. In "Drawing Death", the murderer stabs their last victim and then rolls their still living body into an open grave intended for one of their previous victims and fills it in. Barnaby and Winter arrive in time to save her. In the British sci-fi drama Misfits , we have a rare case of this trope being played mostly for laughs.
And it happens to the main character, no less. Nathan, after suffering a brutal death some days before, turns out to have the power of Resurrection. He's thrilled to find himself alive and starts gloating ridiculously about his newfound power, actually uttering the phrase: "Who's laughing now?!
Then he just lies back and begins casually listening to his iPod. And this happened in the season 1 finale. In the second season opener, a telepath visiting his grave overhears him masturbating and arranges for him to be exhumed.
Done twice in the Mission: Impossible episode "The Cardinal". Barney and Willie use an underground tunnel to enter a monastery, but a cave-in traps them in front of a vault door that must be opened from the inside. Meanwhile, Rollin, impersonating the Cardinal, has allowed himself to be captured by the Big Bad , who plans to suffocate him in a sarcophagus sealed with a pound lid.
Which is exactly what he expected, carrying equipment very specific for escaping the sarcophagus in his cross pendant. In "The Council" the team digs up a freshly buried mobster sentenced for embezzling from the bosses so that they can interrogate him on one of his boss' mannerisms so that Rollin could better impersonate him.
This happens to Monk on more than one occasion, with attendant freak-outs. MythBusters : They checked out if surviving this was possible and deemed it Busted. First, they found that human beings couldn't punch their way out of a cheap pine casket, much less a top of the line one; indeed, any coffin flimsy enough for a person to realistically bust apart would also be crushed by the weight of earth above it.
Plus, they found that even if a human could break out, there was no way a human being could dig their way up through six feet of dirt, especially within the half hour or so they'd have before they ran out of air. Basically, anyone buried alive would be crushed by the weight of the dirt or suffocate. A much earlier episode highlights how unlikely this is to occur accidentally - at least nowadays. Modern undertaking practices include draining all of the blood from the deceased, ensuring that if you weren't dead when you came in, you most certainly were by the time you were buried.
He was the only one who survived the event. Because of this, when a girl is buried alive by two boys whose uncle is an ex-con, Sam takes up the mission without hesitation, focused on it with resolution like no other, and is fully ready to beat them up when demanding where she is, due to this being a very personal traumatic experience and a very huge Berserk Button for him.
Luckily, she manages to be dug up before she runs out of air. There was an especially vindictive instance of this in Oz , where the preacher for the Christians was beaten, tied up, sealed behind a brick wall in the cafeteria and then there was an industrial sized freezer placed in front of it, and the whole deal was orchestrated by his former second in command.
After being freed after an explosion though as a charred, barely alive husk he was shown to have stood up, as if rising from his grave, still covered in 3rd degree burns, after seemingly appearing to other inmates and making them try to kill the one responsible, and then he disappeared. Guess where they found him a few episodes later?
Sealed behind another wall, only this time dead for real. This also happened to Mark Mack and another Aryan Brotherhood member when they tried escaping out of Rebadow and Busmalis' hole. Passions : Sheridan Crane's death was faked to escape criminals who were pursuing her and she was buried to continue the ruse. Unfortunately, plans to rescue her immediately were hindered when the criminals in question kidnapped her would-be saviors, leaving her in considerable peril Sheridan's claustrophobia didn't help matters much.
Although she was ultimately rescued at the end of the "day", the scenes played out for over a month. The Pretender used this twice. The victim in "Back From the Dead Again" was buried alive. In "Red Rock Jarod", the villain of the episode buries a hostage alive in a remote location — with an air pump, but if he doesn't get what he wants before the pump runs out of fuel Pretty Little Liars : Alison's autopsy makes it clear she was buried alive after being knocked out by a blow to the head in the incident that kickstarts the series.
Eventually, it's revealed that Alison is actually alive, but she was buried alive after a blow to the head and escaped with help from a friend. Later that night, Bethany Young was knocked out and buried alive in the same grave Ali had been buried in; upon discovery, her body was misidentified as Alison's. Done on Ray Bradbury Theater , when a young girl overhears the screams of a woman whose husband buried her alive.
The woman is rescued eventually, but only after an awful lot of people dismiss the girl's claims. Red Dwarf : Rimmer is buried alive by the hidden psychopath in "Cured". He orders Archie to lie down in a pre-dug grave, then orders Betty to fill it in. Fortunately, when the Black Hood gets distracted, Betty is able to smack him with her shovel , then quickly dig Archie out and escape. In Roswell , this happens to Laurie Dupree. Luckily for her, the attacker specifically wanted to keep her alive, so set it up that she could breathe.
Unfortunately, the woman is so mentally scarred by the experience that she becomes a veritable vegetable. Clark frees her after she passes out. In " Obscura ", Chloe is also buried alive, but Clark manages to rescue her. She is later shown to be traumatized by the event.
The man who did it was a cop who wanted the credit of finding her. Whether he would have done so before or after she died is unclear. In " Fade ", after Graham incapacitates Clark with Kryptonite, he buries him with it leaving him to die, but Chloe and Lois rescue him. In " Harvest ", an angry mob of crazed villagers do this to Clark, who has lost his powers from blue kryptonite exposure. Fortunately, the soil shields him enough from the kryptonite to give him back some of his strength, allowing him to break free.
Ronon wakes up at that point. Supernatural : Happens to Dean , although to be fair, he was dead when they buried him. It being Supernatural , though, he didn't stay that way. Dean and Sam also earlier do this to an immortal murderer. He's also chained into his coffin. Tales from the Crypt : "Dig That Cat He's Real Gone" has a magician do this as his final trick. A doctor had transplanted into him the organ that gives cats nine lives, so he could die and just come back. After using this to make a small fortune at a sideshow, his final stunt was to be buried alive in front of hundreds of witnesses.
Only once he's in the ground does he start reminiscing about what an interesting life he's had, before he realizes he didn't count the death of the cat among his lives. He's on his ninth, not his eight Toast of London : Toast gets put in a coffin and buried underground as part of a movie he's shooting, but the director goes insane and the crew scatters before he can be exhumed, leading to him spending all day trapped in the coffin slowly running out of air as he tries to call someone to rescue him on his new cell phone, to no avail.
Torchwood : In the finale episode of series two, Jack's brother Gray has Jack buried alive sans coffin; bear in mind Jack can't die. Or rather, he does die, but returns to life a few minutes later.
So Jack spends years choking to death on soil over and over again! It sorta happens again in the Children of Earth story.
Under orders to neutralize Jack, and after proving he can survive being blown to smithereens, an arm of the government encases him in extremely quick-drying cement, where he presumably suffocates over and over again. Luckily, his team manages to rescue him before the day is out. True Blood : Russell Edgington is sealed in concrete at the season 3 finale and is dug up in the season 5 premiere.
Five years of live burial is also a punishment dished out by the magister to vampires who kill their own species although he can sometimes be more creative. One of the news anchor jokes on The Two Ronnies told of England's most notorious practical joker, who was buried today.
His lungs explode but, being a vampire, they regenerate He remains dying and regenerating for three months before he's rescued by Qetsiyah. Walker, Texas Ranger : Several episodes have featured one of the main characters or an underage person, usually children buried by the villains, and Walker and the Rangers racing against time to stop the bad guys and locate the victim.
Three such episodes aired within months of each other in alone: "Deadline": With the state facing a budget crisis, state senator vows to disband the Texas Rangers as a cost-cutting move Only when Walker does find her does the senator realize the value of the Rangers.
To ensure cooperation by the boy's father when the heist does take place. This time, Trivette saves the day. The bus is driven to a landfill, parked in a ditch, and then buried with everyone inside in tons of dirt and fill. Wentworth : The fate given to Joan. A rare example dished out by a heroic character, though given this series' use of Grey-and-Gray Morality , precisely how heroic they are generally depends on the episode.
The X-Files : "Apocrypha". A bodysurfing alien uses Alex Krychek to get back to its spacecraft, which has been left in an abandoned missile silo. The episode ends with Krychek locked inside the silo, eighty stories down, hammering on the door and screaming to be let out. And technically, even Mulder himself was buried alive during the episode "Deadalive". Avenged Sevenfold has a song called "Buried Alive". Guess what it's about? It isn't the only song that mentions this.
The Creepshow have a song called "Buried Alive", which is about just that. Referenced in "The Mariner's Revenge Song" by The Decemberists : Find him, bind him tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters drag him into a hole until he wakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his grave Music Videos.
The Blue October music video for their song "Dirt Room" involves a woman coming home, realizing her house is being robbed, knocking the burglar unconscious and restraining him before pushing him into a freshly dug hole, and finally calling the police and presumably having him arrested.
In a skit during "Legend of the Fall-offs", Busta Rhymes plays a metaphorical hip-hop Grim Reaper burying a has-been rapper alive. Though it isn't buried, the Attic in Gottlieb 's Haunted House has a Coffin with a person or a ghost? Done of a sort in Metallica — the game has a giant Hammer that hits captured pinballs into a coffin beneath the playfield. Pro Wrestling. WWE wrestler The Undertaker has fought in several Buried Alive matches, where a grave site is created near the stage area of the arena, and the objective is to bury one's opponent alive.
Usually these end with Undertaker buried, and disappearing for several months, only to come Back from the Dead hey, he's practically The Grim Reaper ; he can do that with a new look, thirsting for revenge.
Tabletop Games. It buries a victim in suspended animation deep below the surface. This is how a Living Wall comes into being in the Ravenloft campaign; when an evil person walls up a victim and leaves him to die in such a manner, and the victim curses the one responsible in such a way that the Dark Powers hear him and respond, then when the victim dies, his spirit merges with the wall itself, turning it into an abomination that assimilates the bodies and souls of anyone who comes near.
A non-official sourcebook introduced the entombment spell, which buries alive a creature on the spot. If a saving throw is passed, the subject is only buried to the waist A 2-cubic-meter column of stone appears in the teleport chamber as a form of Equivalent Exchange.
Pathfinder : Zomoks have a breath weapon that allows them to vomit forth a tide of soil and gravel, which on a lucky roll can entirely bury a prone target.
The World of Darkness : Geist: The Sin-Eaters : There's mention of a geist, the Gravedigger, who in life did this to his murder victims hit them with a shovel, bury them alive, listen to them scream. He met his end when he didn't hit one hard enough — the man woke up, retrieved the shovel, knocked the Gravedigger out and buried him alive upside down, to boot.
Fortunately for everyone, although the Gravedigger came back as a geist and hooked up with a miner who'd eaten his coworkers to survive a cave-in, the first krewe they met instantly pegged them as bad news and destroyed them.
While many reported cases of burials of the living were exaggerated, Bondeson did unearth a few cases of people who went under the earth while still breathing. In , a year-old German shoemaker was laid to rest, but there were questions about his death from the start. Still, the funeral went on as planned. But as the gravedigger was dispersing the last shovelsful of dirt onto the grave, he heard a knocking from below. Reversing his process and now removing the earth as quickly as possible, the gravedigger found the shoemaker moving inside his coffin.
Over the course of three days, resuscitation attempts were made, but all efforts were fruitless. The shoemaker was declared dead once more and laid to rest for a second and final time.
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