A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.
Direction
Darabont squeezing genuine tension from a TV-movie budget
Acting
Jennifer Jason Leigh's spiral from smug to spectacularly unraveling
Practical Effects
That coffin set — method acting for anyone with mild claustrophobia
Director
Frank Darabont
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Frank Darabont's first feature after years in makeup effects — he literally built the coffin himself. Stephen King saw it and finally let him adapt Shawshank.
The 'buried alive' subgenre peaked in the '90s with this, The Vanishing, and Kill Bill Vol. 2 — but only Darabont made his hero escape through pure carpentry skills he established in minute three.
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