Where others might see a crystal ashtray, DIY filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead envision some kind of haunted relic, a portal to another dimension or maybe just the ideal prop on which to base their next screwy sci-fi imagination-tickler. Audiences who’ve experienced a Moorhead&Benson film — eerie vacation-sex nightmare “Spring,” perhaps, or else UFO death-cult puzzler “The Endless” — already know how the pair can spin elaborate mind games out of duct tape, twine and popsicle sticks. In “Something in the Dirt,” they somehow manage more with less than ever.
Starting with said ashtray and a nearly empty apartment, plus the two of them as pretty much the entire cast, Benson and Moorhead have delivered a cross between “Poltergeist” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” on a tiny fraction of the budget. Just as Richard Dreyfuss nearly drove himself crazy carving Devils Tower from a plate of mashed potatoes,...
Starting with said ashtray and a nearly empty apartment, plus the two of them as pretty much the entire cast, Benson and Moorhead have delivered a cross between “Poltergeist” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” on a tiny fraction of the budget. Just as Richard Dreyfuss nearly drove himself crazy carving Devils Tower from a plate of mashed potatoes,...
- 1/24/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety - Film News
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