7 Quentin Tarantino Movie Plots That Really Happened

5. People Get Buried Alive All The Time

A torture so nice he used it twice, Quentin Tarantino clearly hasn't got a problem with claustrophobia since he's used the "buried alive" shtick a few times in his career. Not only was it a big part of Kill Bill Volume 2, as Michael Madsen's Budd locks The Bride in a coffin and sticks her six feet under, but it was also the plot for the two-part episode of CSI that Tarantino once helmed (which people always forget about). Both Kill Bill and Grave Danger, the CSI episode, are horrifying in their own ways. For once it's CSI that manages to be slightly more realistic, however, since instead of punching through the casket as Uma Thurman does, detective Nick Stokes has to wait for his police colleagues to track down his whereabouts and haul him out of the soil. Slightly more realistic, yes, but the idea of somebody being buried alive is surely just a film and TV trope like the boxing throwing a fight, right? It's something we've seen not only from Tarantino but in films like Buried, which saw Ryan Reynolds spending the entire running time trapped underground. In fact, people get buried alive all the time and that is bloody terrifying. There are stories of people in comas or otherwise appearing to be bereft of live being mistakenly buried, but worse than that is the confirmed history of people being stuck underground expressly as a form of torture, murder, or execution. It goes all the way back to ancient Rome and was used as recently as World War II, but the one that sounds most Tarantino-esque was the feudal Russian punishment known as "the pit", used against women who were condemned for killing their husbands.