Trapped Alive was the first film to come out of Wisconsin’s now-defunct Windsor Lake Studios. Ah, the days when video stores offered a ready-made place for horror. I know we have streamings but allow me to be the old man yelling at a cloud and say, “It’s not the same.”

Robin (Sullivan Hester) and Monica (Laura Kallison) are on their way to a holiday party when they’re carjacked by escaped prisoners Randy Carter (Mark Witsken), Mongo (Michael Nash) and Louis Napoleon (Alex Kubik). Taken hostage, the cops soon give chase which leads them directly down the shaft of the Forever Mine.

Now, the girls are trapped with the criminals and — can it get worse? — a cannibal mutant (Paul Dean) is looking to feed. His daughter Rachel (Elizabeth Kent, who is in another Windsor-Lake movie, Mindwarp) has to allow the town’s only cop Billy Williams (Randy Powell) into the mine after Robin’s father (Cameron Mitchell!) begs for help.

It’s like someone watched My Bloody Valentine and Madman as a double feature.

Directed by Leszek Burzynski, who wrote the story with Julian Weaver, Trapped Alive was made as Forever Mine. The original VHS box art had two models on it. Neither of them are in the movie.