Budget horror defies its shoestring funds and provides a cracking yarn for 90 minutes.
Shallow Ground is the type of movie you can't really reveal too much about in terms of its plot, as otherwise you'll spoil the vast majority of its content.
Nevertheless, a simple synopsis is that a small town police station which is about close up for good is thrown into disarray on the day most of its employees are leaving when a young man entirely drenched in blood shows up. Entirely disturbed by this, the officers realise they have to investigate what's going on, and when a blood test reveals the blood's origins the police realise they have a real mystery on their hands.
Saying more is pointless, so I won't. To say the least this movie was an absolute surprise. Granted it came across as a glorified episode of the X-FIles and like-minded TV sci-fi dramas, but this didn't really matter. A movie has to entertain, and given how this one opens and develops, believe it or not, it's quite fascinating and *gasp* original.
Certainly there are moments which require suspension of disbelief, but hey, it's a movie, and it's fiction.
The direction is pretty decent, even if there are areas which could have benefited from faster, more thrusting direction - the pacey plot really needed regular breakneck pace and it slowed down in the odd place which wasn't the wisest move.
The acting is acceptable enough, but who watches horror for the acting...
The gore levels are rather high - the movie is not especially gory, but it has a high volume of the visceral stuff to say the least.
The strongest aspect is definitely the plot, and the special effects add a lot to it too.
Fairly recommended.
Shallow Ground is the type of movie you can't really reveal too much about in terms of its plot, as otherwise you'll spoil the vast majority of its content.
Nevertheless, a simple synopsis is that a small town police station which is about close up for good is thrown into disarray on the day most of its employees are leaving when a young man entirely drenched in blood shows up. Entirely disturbed by this, the officers realise they have to investigate what's going on, and when a blood test reveals the blood's origins the police realise they have a real mystery on their hands.
Saying more is pointless, so I won't. To say the least this movie was an absolute surprise. Granted it came across as a glorified episode of the X-FIles and like-minded TV sci-fi dramas, but this didn't really matter. A movie has to entertain, and given how this one opens and develops, believe it or not, it's quite fascinating and *gasp* original.
Certainly there are moments which require suspension of disbelief, but hey, it's a movie, and it's fiction.
The direction is pretty decent, even if there are areas which could have benefited from faster, more thrusting direction - the pacey plot really needed regular breakneck pace and it slowed down in the odd place which wasn't the wisest move.
The acting is acceptable enough, but who watches horror for the acting...
The gore levels are rather high - the movie is not especially gory, but it has a high volume of the visceral stuff to say the least.
The strongest aspect is definitely the plot, and the special effects add a lot to it too.
Fairly recommended.