Those who couldn’t handle the single (rather long) scene where Uma Thurman’s Bride was buried alive in “Kill Bill: Volume 2” had best navigate their way back to cuteoverload.com and away from these claustrophobia-inducing videos. We’ve reported before on Rodrigo Cortes’ indie thriller starring Ryan Reynolds and…a cell phone, but “Buried” is about to make its debut at Sundance. The film stars Reynolds as a civilian contractor who is buried alive in a coffin in Iraq and then held for ransom. Apparently all 80 minutes of the film are set in the coffin (that can’t be possible, can it?) with Reynolds’s character who just has a cell phone, a knife, and his wits to get him out of the worst situation imaginable. We suppose he could’ve been left without the cell phone and the knife, but that’s just cruel.
We’re excited to see Reynolds do something different since this is a pretty serious diversion from his usual work in studio pictures like “Wolverine,” “The Proposal,” and the upcoming comic-book adaptation “Green Lantern.” Sadly, the setting will probably not allow the ripped actor to reveal his famed physique (that Scarlett Johansson is a lucky woman), but that might be for the best. The camera will be on his face for the whole film, and he’ll be forced to abandon any attempts at looking cute and actually act. We included the film on our list of escapist films for 2010, and we’re definitely intrigued by the potential of this project, as well as Reynolds.
The MTV Movies Blog scored a few clips from the film, including the trailer, which we’ve embedded below. In addition to new wrinkles in the film’s plot, the second clip gives audiences a clue about the director’s swooping, swirling camera choices. As if the claustrophobia weren’t enough, Cortes had to add nausea to the mix, giving us flashbacks to the sickening but effective cinematography of “Irreversible.”