Spanish director Rodrigo Cortes is premiering his highly buzzed-about thriller Buried at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film, shot in Barcelona for $3 million, stars Ryan Reynolds as an American citizen who is abducted while working in Iraq and buried alive in a coffin with nothing more than a lighter, a knife, and a mobile phone, which he must use to make the following video:

Looks like Blair Witch meets the Taliban. I dig it.

Buried’s action takes place in a 3′-X-6′ coffin and features Reynolds as the only actor onscreen (hmm, so that’s why Mrs. Muertos wants to see this).

During an interview on Australian TV last year, Reynolds said:

It’s the only movie I’ve ever heard of with only one person in it. So it’s just me, I’m the only person in the whole movie so, I don’t know, we’ll see. It’s either going to be, you know, the greatest, most experimental cool movie ever made or god knows what.

The synopsis reads:

Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is a U.S. citizen working as a contract driver in Iraq. After a swift and sudden attack on his convoy, he awakens to find himself buried alive inside a coffin with nothing more than a lighter, a cell phone, and little memory of how he ended up there. Faced with limited oxygen and unlimited panic, Paul finds himself in a tension-filled race against time to escape this claustrophobic deathtrap before it’s too late.

Cortes, a self-described Hitchcock fanatic, has garnered international acclaim for his stylish and outside-the-box filmmaking, winning awards for his 2001 short 15 Dias—which starred 100 actors in 200 locations—and 2007’s Concursante. Cortes’ next project is the paranormal thriller Red Lights.