Shallow Ground

Shallow Ground (2004): First we had Shallow Grave, then Shallow Hal, and now shallow Ground. I think the trend toward shallower movies is certainly confirmed by this one and it certainly has a shallower budget than most movies. According to the DVD commentary, this flick was put together for less than $100K but it looks a lot better than that. They must have spent a sizable portion of that budget on fake blood because that really gets deep for such a shallow movie.
The movie opens with a shocker as a naked young teen boy walks though the woods and into the local rural police HQ covered in blood carrying a large knife. He won’t talk and seems to ooze blood from unusual orifices on occasion. His fingerprints test positive for about 6 different people who have all gone missing and notes written in blood start showing up all over the police station. The locale is a rural setting and the area is soon to be flooded by a new dam and most everyone has left including most of the police who are packing up the station as the action starts. The mystery is really about what is going on and it certainly can be difficult to figure out. Do we have serial killers, inbred redneck loonies, or maybe its ghosts, or some sort of conspiracy going on and that’s the best part of the movie, not knowing exactly what is really going on. The ending is a bit shallow and doesn’t fully do justice to everything that has happened but the story and plot will keep you involved in the movie. Not a bad flick for a really low budget effort and the acting is well above average for this type of movie. The movie is rated R for: red bumulations, breastulations, hanging chains, hanging ingénues, bleeding eyes, bleeding hair, bleeding nose, bleeding toes, bleeding body parts of your choice, bleeding school bus, and for the mini blood tsunami.