by Hal Erickson
synopsis
The Living Coffin is a Mexican filmization of that old Edgar Allan Poe standby The Premature Burial. A seriously ill woman is terrified that she'll be buried while in a comatose state. To avoid this contingency, she has an alarm installed inside her coffin (indicating that someone involved with this film had seen the 1931 Paramount chiller Murder by the Clock). It comes to pass that the woman is indeed declared dead, planted six feet under, and.....hoo hoo hah hah HAAAAH! The legendary B-flick showman/huckster K. Gordon Murray filmed The Living Coffin in 1958 under the title El Grito de la Muerte; it didn't make the American rounds until 1965 (talk about rising from the dead!)
characteristics
- Premature-burial
- Death
- Dying
- Dead
- Neurosis
- Neurotic
- Anxiety
- Anxious
- Woman
- Obsession
- Fear
- Phobia
- Buried-alive
- Coffin
- Sarcophagus
