The Deeper You Dig

Wanted to like this film! read some reviews, sounded like it might be interesting. started of well, scenery, camera work, acting all good. was settling down for a nice film night, but film lost its way. shame. if you just watch first half and then stop you'll have a better evening. Went a bit nic cage, a bit psychadelic. not quite Mandy bad but that way. looking at the first reviews I would suspect a connection, its not that good. I respect that this has been done on a budget by a small family company, and like they say, the cinematography is very good. I did love the feel of the film at first. I hope the Adams family continue to make films and hope they get better. A good plot is probably the least expensive yet most important part of any film

1) It's boring. 2) It's trying WAY too hard. 3) It could have been a 30 minute short and nothing would have been lost. 4) The ending is awful, and pointless.

Trying to watch this is a slow and painful torture. It's a meaningless and rhythmless mess. There's nothing new, it's the same old cliché story, poorly told. the photography of the film is also terrible, its like a cheesy high contrast filter that hurts the eyes. I gave it 1 star for the effort, but there's really no reason to watch it.

...slowly descends into a quirky story with a ridiculous ending so disappointing that you'll likely be sorry you spent the time to watch. So much potential here lost when the ghost of the murdered girl possesses the taciturn loner house-flipper. I'm surprised he didn't start dancing around in girls' underware and putting on makeup. Too, a screwdriver stab through the eye and deep into the brain would likely result in death, not to mention the previous same screwdriver driven deep into the man's heart, whose removal would have bled him out long before it entered his brain. This one's a travesty. Skip it.

A half-hour short story would be ok, an hour and a half, no. Very slow, all rather pointless; why do I keep watching things like this? In the hope to find a diamond in the rough, I must stop wasting my time. Another reviewer likened the film to Winter Bone; the only resemblance to Winter Bone is the appearance of snow. Not bad acting, but so many better ghost /horror films to watch.

Sometimes a shoestring budget acts not as a restraint, but a liberating expression of "old-fashioned" concepts like well done cinematography, sparse sets and spare dialog. If you are looking for a big budget lurch fest, keep steppin'. This is an intimate imagining of the theme of bonds that exceed time, distance and mortality. (Not forgetting an important PSA for the safe storage of power tools on a work site)

I've had some bad luck of late with picking out movies to watch with my in-laws. The first, Officer Downe, started with male on female oral pleasure and that got a hard pass from the room. This was going to be the follow-up and they might have felt even stronger about how this one made them feel.* As for me, I have mixed feelings about the film. It looks gorgeous, unlike anything else I've seen out of horror this year. And I honestly feel like it's pacing and tone owe more to strange 70's American drive-in folkish stuff like Let's Scare Jessica to Death and Dark August. It's a simple tale - a mother comes to terms with the loss of her daughter while meeting the man who caused her death - but it's told in an incredibly interesting way. But there are great stretches where it lost me. And yet, it always got me back. Written, directed by and starring filmmaking family the Adams Family (Tobey Poser, John Adams and Zelda Adams), this is all about a tarot card reader named Ivy, whose teenage daughter Echo is accidentally killed bt a new neighbor. However, Echo refuses to pass away quietly and starts to become part of the man's every waking moment, slowly taking over him and reaching out to her mother from the other side. There are moments of shocking violence in this film, as well as scenes of the other side that are the parts that lost me. I'd like the clown makeup scene explained to me. It all feels more silly than earnest and took me completely of the film, but the end of the story won me over. It's wildly uneven, but so filled with promise that I think that it's totally worth you taking the time to watch it. It's certainly better than the next direct to streaming or meant for the multiplex film you'll suffer through. I'm interested in seeing what others think of this movie. *The B of B&S About Movies, Becca, wanted me to provide her review of this movie, which is short and to the point: "It was stupid."