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4.0/10   252 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Edgar Allan Poe (story)
Jake Chesi (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
3 October 1990 (USA) more
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Plot:
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by various ex-mental patients... more | add synopsis
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Big-time horror flop. more (12 total)

Cast

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Robert Vaughn ... Gary

Donald Pleasence ... Dr. Schaeffer

Karen Witter ... Janet
John Carradine ... Jacob
Ginger Lynn Allen ... Debbie (as Ginger Allen)

Nia Long ... Fingers
William Butler ... Tim (as Bill Butler)
Janine Denison ... Shiro

Arnold Vosloo ... Ken Wade
Ashley Hayden ... Boze
Stefa Popic ... Amy
Hayley Dorskey ... Sue-Sue
Roslynn Farrell ... Tina
Dee Dee Eybers ... Yvonne
Isabel Kastrikis ... Rita
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Edgar Allan Poe's Buried Alive (International: English title) (complete title)
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Runtime:
87 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Filmed in mid 1988, this was the final film appearance of John Carradine. It was released two years after his death. more

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Big-time horror flop., 3 July 2004
3/10
Author: gridoon

Although the overall plot is obvious, the details are baffling; characters have dreams/visions/hallucinations that are never explained; most exposition parts seem to have been cut out; the film moves from one warped scene to another instead of trying to build some atmosphere. Robert Vaughn is utterly unconvincing in the first half of the film (though he improves later on), and Donald Pleasence is irritating as the doctor/possible suspect who mostly comes across as just a senile old man. (*1/2)

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