Coffin

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Jack Samms comes home after a routine day and finds an intruder in his house who calls himself " Trick " who shows him an event on a laptop - Jack's wife and her lover are trapped , entombed in a coffin and Trick tells Jack that there is only enough air to last another 75 minutes There's a good film in here somewhere but is destroyed by its own derivative nature for much of the running time . It's a psychological thriller rather than an out and out horror movie but you're constantly reminded of other better films . . Reading the premise I thought I'd be watching something along the lines of the ultra low budget minimalist cult classic BURIED which came out round about the same time but unlike that film COFFIN doesn't have faith in its premise and the vast majority of the action takes place above ground . Likewise the mind games Trick plays on Jack is similar to the SAW movies and DIRTY HARRY . One noticeable thing about the two victims trapped in the coffin is that the mis-en-scene is wrong . Despite there being water leaking in to the coffin there is also sunlight visible , a fact noticed by Jack when he looks on the laptop and this foreshadows the ending which thankfully isn't leftfield and if it had a better director and production values would have made a nifty mainstream thriller

I'm pretty sure a group of 12 year old boys could make a better movie. The acting is laughably bad. The director(s) decision to keep these takes is simply criminal. One of the worst movies I've seen on Prime.

A good idea will be replicated endlessly. Just take one part Buried and a host of other movies based around people trapped in tight places such as car trunks and the like and its what you have here with coffin. Watched this as i became aware of coffin 2 first. Now that i have seen this i am unsure whether i will bother with coffin 2. Its not that gory so it fails even at the torture * it halfheartedly sets out to be. The budget seems to have been mostly spent on the actors salaries. Not bad just not great. Definitely late night watching with a can of beer at hand.

Around 13 to 14.5 minutes a Woman is seen in just a bra and underpants and after she gets dressed cleavage can still be seen.

This is a great movie! Do not believe me? Watch it for yourself.

Nice little thriller with a great twist that you are not expecting. Well done for a small, low budget film. You might get a little lost in the plot over one particular point but that happens in all kinds of thrillers or mysteries. But it is nothing to make the experience unfulfilling. Patrick Barnitt does a great job in his first starring role and has a great future ahead of him. Sorbo is convincing when he is on screen as is most of the cast. Good production value considering how little this film was made for. Barnitt and Alonzo have to carry the story along and they do so with skill. Really impressed with Barnitt's performance.

This is actually a much better film than I expected and though I only scored it 6 from 10 in the vote ratings, this is definitely above average and compares favourably to 'Buried" from 2011. A similar film about a victim being buried in a coffin. May I say that although two people are kept in a coffin, the story is not what you may think it is - about anybody being buried below the ground, though of course they could easily be, given the nature of the storyline. The acting is not great, agreed, but it does not need to be. the script is good enough to carry the story and keeps us gripped until the excellent twist at the end. The main theme of the story is a cheating wife (and to some extent a cheating husband). There are many unrealistic elements to the film and I might have chosen to call the movie 'Trick" for example. If it did remind me of another film which does not give the plot away in any way, it is the abuse of the clown in "Vulgar" from a few years ago. Pay $16 to watch this in a cinema? Why would you? It should be readily available on DVD and that is its intended market, I am quite sure.

Perfect example to trick the unknown buyers of flicks. Buried (2010) was a must see, so they tried to copy the title, face it, coffin has a lot to do with buried. On the other hand the sleeve also looks very closely to Buried. But the story is something completely different. We do have two people who are buried in a coffin but there's more going on. It looked promising with the masked villain but once he changed his hood for shades it became ridiculous. And the acting wasn't worth watching too. Still if you do like thrillers with a plot change then you may like it but it did have an overall low budget look. I just wasn't involved into the characters. No suspense at all just sitting there and thinking at the end, okay but nothing special. I could have known it, it was here already on the sale shelves when it came out. Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Don't get me wrong, it's not American Beauty, but it's also not trying to be. Would I pay $16 to see it in theaters? No. But if you're a fan of shows like CSI or Law and Order, or like the Saw movies (with less/no gore), this will be worth your 90 minutes. Bruce Davison always adds to whatever project he is in. Sorbo is great (but not in it as much as you would think since he's trapped in a box). The other lead, Patrick Barnitt, does a great job (especially for an actor without a lot of credits). I didn't really buy the villain. Just thought it was a bit over the top. I understand maybe he was compensating for size or age, but I agree with the other user, it comes across as a bad impression of Heath Ledger's joker. The rest of the supporting cast does a good job at making even the small roles memorable. Again, it might not be for everyone, but if you like crime periodicals or thrillers with a twist, this is a fun little movie. Enjoy!