No not the “women’s network”…
They were just showing this 1999 movie with Maura Tierney (who played “Lisa” on the sitcom NewsRadio).It’s a cop thriller… One of the plot motivators is the bad guy buries someone alive. They show her screaming and begging for mercy, knowing she will be awake and trapped as she slowly suffocates over the course of a day. To be nailed into a little wooden box is bad enough, but to be buried alive, and to hear the shovelfuls of dirt piled on top of the lid… It’s pretty horrific.
But not as horrific as it could have been. Granted, it’s the beginning of the movie, which may be too early to make the audience throw up, but hey… since it’s a cop movie you know the odds are she will be saved by the end. A movie along a similar theme which makes this prospect much much scarier is The Vanishing, in which Jeff Bridges has abducted Kiefer Sutherland‘s girlfriend (played briefly and heart-rendingly by Sandra Bullock). Jeff buries her alive… she does not get out. Ick. Much creepier. Incidentally, The Vanishing was a remake of a Dutch movie. Although if it’s as sadistic as the remake, I’m not sure I want to see it- the combination of shock theater and subtitles doesn’t always work for me. For example, I couldn’t sit through Funny Games because it was just too slow. However I am always up for a Takashi Miike movie. Go figure.
For gruelling scenes — read “The Wind Up Bird Chronicle” by Haruki Murakami. There is a description of a man being skinned alive that is haunting and horribly detailed.