Arrow Video's 2K Restoration Of Leszek Burzynski’s Trapped Alive Arrives On Blu-ray On May 21

The Forever Mine waits … cold, dark, abandoned and destined for a classic victim pool to arrive within its maze of tunnels in a most unexpected way.   And within those tunnels lurks a bloodthirsty fiend … yes, the Forever Mine waits, but it won’t be abandoned for much longer!

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution guidance provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 2K restoration of director Leszek Burzynski’s 1988 horror tale, Trapped Alive, ready for Blu-ray release this coming May 21.

The classic “victim pool” of a body-count slasher film is usually a group of unsuspecting teens and/or college-aged kids who are out for a good time — with the females of the group attractive and well-endowed.   Be it a party, a remote cabin in the woods, an abandoned research facility, an empty house or a car or motorhome that breaks down far from civilization, the aforementioned “victim pool” arrives there and all hell breaks loose.

But how Burzynski assembles his “victim pool” and how he gets them to the “place” where all hell will break loose is, by any standard, unique!

It’s Christmas Eve and cute young things Robin (Sullivan Hester) and Monica (Laura Kallison) are on their way to a party, but they are hijacked on a remote country road by a trio of escaped prisoners lead by Louis “Face” Napoleon (Alex Kubik — Be Cool, Bad Girls), Mongo (Michael Nash — The Color of Money) and Randy (Mark Witsken).   

Randy, a young and somewhat innocent prisoner, does the driving while Face and Mongo check out the merchandise, but when Billy (Randy Powell  — Battletruck, Class Reunion), a local cop gets on their tail, Randy foolishly drives off the road and lands on top of a boarded-up mine shaft!   It gives way and down, down they go.

Victim pool, boarded-up mine shaft and boom, they’ve arrived.   

Trapped Alive breaks briefly into three storylines at this point, one of which is not necessary — veteran actor Cameron Mitchell literally phones-in his role as the concerned father of Robin.   The other two elements are fun and a little weird.

The occupants of the car are trapped in the mine and start wandering around in the maze of tunnels and soon discover that they are not alone.   Meanwhile, Billy goes to a nearby farmhouse to use the phone and meets Rachel (Elizabeth Kent), who seduces him and tells him all about the creepy mine.

Soon these two storylines will merge, we will discover how Rachel is tied into all of it, Billy will zip it up and get back to work and members of the victim pool are slaughtered.  There’s even time for Robin to strip down to her underwear and go swimming before the identity of the mutant killer is revealed.

Bonus features include not one, but three newly-prepared commentary tracks.  The first features writer/director Leszek Burzynski, the second teams horror writer Josh Hadley with special effects artist Hank Carlson and the third feature The Hysteria Continues.   There is a newly-minted documentary on the making of the film titled There’s Evil Underground and a pair of featurettes — “Upper Michigan Tonight” and “Leszek Burzynski: The Early Years.”