Shallow Ground (2005)

The plot of "Shallow Ground" is as follows:naked teenage boy appears at a soon-to-be abandoned sheriff's station,drenched in blood on the one-year anniversary of the murder of a local girl that remains unsolved.Sheriff Jack Shepherd searches for the boy's true identity and intentions while dealing with his guilt over failing to save the girl or solve her murder.It seems that the dead across the world are rising up and seeking revenge on the people who killed them.A blood-covered humans are stalking their killers.Visually creative supernatural mystery/slasher flick with fair amount of gore.The acting is decent,the storyline moves at brisk pace and the climax offers shocking surprise.I disliked quick and disjointed MTV-like editing in a couple of scenes,but "Shallow Ground" is worth checking out.7 bloodied bodies out of 10.

Shallow Ground is nothing but collection of stupid scenes that should be scary. But none of them are. I just don't know how to start disparage this movie. The film is just one big absurdity.The plot in this movie is like the essay of pupil. Lady loses the family because of new dam. Her husband and daughter dies when new dam is constructed ( It is interesting, what the hell her daughter had to do with dam development ). Then the old lady starts to kill family members of builders, engineers and etc. Then her victims cooperates and reborn as a boy. That boy ( somehow he is always bloody ) pursues the family members of killed humans ( remember that the boy consists of these victims ). We can see that boy almost in every shot, he always walks around, but almost no one can see him. Also he loves to make the blood come out of his nose and eyes. And also he writes graffiti with blood. And he has the ability to make trees and leaves bleed. There are several shots where boy and murders victims are covered with ants and other bugs. I don't know what should that mean.So, dead people, in shape of little boy, scares nearest relatives. In the end of the movie this boy finally realizes that he should scary not his devoted friends but his killer. Then he kills old lady very tellingly, but then, this lady transforms into super zombie creature and kills the boy more cruelly than he did. If you did not understand what i just said, then you can feel like you already saw this movie.So, I made my point about plot. Now, I would like to name some facts that i learned in this film.1. The best way to do everything safe is to tell your friends that they can't go anywhere alone. Then you leave them in the precinct with suspect and go to find out where this suspect came from.2. If you want to find out where the suspect came from, you need to go alone.3. The best way to see what the dude in cell did, is to step in the puddle of blood.4. If you want, that the policeman find the killer, you have to take his co-worker hostage.5. When you have a hostage, you should always grind your revolver into hostage leg, while your hostage is driving. There is no matter, that you are in the middle of forest at night.6. If old lady is angry, she can kill anybody. Then she binds her victim and loads it high into the tree (there is no matter that sometimes old lady kills males that should be hard to rise up).7. Zombies can make the electricity disappear.That's enough. So, as you can see, this film is crap. I am disappointed that such films have a rating 5.3 .I did not gave it 1 just because i gave 1 for "SHARKMAN", that still remains the biggest junk of all horror movies.I hope you will read this before you see this movie.Remember, I warned you.Sorry about my English

What the hell was that all about then? Damned if I know, but it was awful.This film was another I saw at my University's SU bar for free (and I only saw it because I was told it was Shallow GRAVE) and I want my money back.It has about the same scare factor as being in a really comfy armchair with a nice cup of tea and a soothing CD on, is as satisfying as a half eaten pot noodle, and makes about as much sense as a semi-comatose, acid tripping man with no hands trying to communicate through sign language.I mean what the hell was going on? I missed the opening 10-15 minutes as I was getting food (the diversion being a far more interesting experience than the film, and as I recall more scare-filled too) and as such assumed that I was lost because of this. I asked all my friends and they informed me it was not because I had been late, but because the film sucked more than a prostitutes industrial hoover.I still don't know what this film was ultimately about, and frankly the sequel-aimed ending made me fly into a semi murderous rage at the prospect, before I calmed down with the realisation that no film this mind numbingly boring and, to be frank, stupid, would ever get a sequel.

I'm a horror fan from way back, and am always looking for interesting twists on the genre. There's really only so much you can do with blood and guts and creepy guys in the woods, so the audience gets bored quickly. I doubt the slasher genre will ever really go away, because people who've been long-term fans grow up and start making their own movies, but they're conscious that there's a blase fan base and a long history preceding them.So we get movies like this one. I think it probably made more sense in the writer/director's head, although you catch on pretty quickly through its (unfortunately) fairly standard suspense setups and "No, it was Jason's MOTHER" type twists. Even the twists are getting predictable. ---------spoiler below----------- ---------stop reading if you don't want a spoiler--------------------What was interesting about this movie was the idea not that the dead are getting up and looking for justice, but the idea of who's responsible for the deaths in the first place, since the main targets are people in authority. It examines an interesting question of who's really responsible for a tragedy, which is why I liked it, outside of the usual gore and guts movies. And the end was cool. :)