Digging Up the Marrow

2015 "Believing is seeing."
5.8| 1h38m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 20 February 2015 Released
Producted By: ArieScope Pictures
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A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

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Fantasy, Drama, Horror

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Director

Adam Green

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ArieScope Pictures

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Digging Up the Marrow Audience Reviews

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Michael Ledo Adam Green who has given us "Hatchet" which I praised and "Frozen" which was a bore, brings us a semi-documentary style film as his late entry into the hand held genre craze. Yes, even during the disco era, most respected rockers broke down and did a disco song.In this feature, Adam Green played himself. He is contacted by retired detective William Dekker (Ray Wise) about a group of "monsters" or deformed humans who live underground in what he calls "The Marrow." They travel around with a camera getting a lot of pictures of nothing and then like all hand held genre films, things pick up in the last few minutes.The monster make-up was excellent, however Adam Green in front of the camera was not. In fact most of the horror film crowd who played themselves in front of the camera were a yawn including Kane Hodder without a hockey mask.Worth a Redbox rental
CousinBagunca This is a horror flick, taking the road of a fake documentary (mockumentary) that's all about the plot.The whole thought put into making the overall Marrow structure kinda amazed me. While watching, even though you're not thrilled or anything, you're deep curious to know what's going to be the outcome of all that.Acting is regular, nothing special. Also, I liked that they went down the practical effects road. Even though it's pretty obvious that the effects are cheap, I like that feeling you get while seeing someone in rubber costumes and go full "aaah, practical effects all the way"! (It's way better than seeing bad CGI).There're some jump scares here and there, but that's about it; it's all about the story indeed.
Finfrosk86 I'm a little torn on this one. On one hand it's very well made, everything looks very authentic. Well, except from the fact that one very important role is filled by a rather well known actor. Because you see: this is made like a documentary (mocumentary if you will), and it is very well made. It is pretty believable and "realistic"-looking. Alright, you get that this is a scripted movie, but you sort of forget it from time to time, too. So good job on that, movie!I didn't find it scary, and there are not that many parts that are meant to be scary either. But I would still have liked a little more horror. As a matter of fact, the parts where stuff goes down, I think they could have been a lot better. Seems kind of random.Most of the cast plays themselves, and they do an overall good job. To sum up: nothing great, but a pretty easy watch.
begob A horror production team spends its spare time investigating an old loner's claims about an underground world of monsters in the woods nearby, and soon discovers tantalising evidence of something deadly ...I was looking forward to this. Clever concept, and it starts fresh with a peek behind the curtain of the horror industry. Mostly hand held cam and all that, but well done.Sadly a great chunk of the movie is spent waiting for Adam Green to shut up. He's the writer/director playing himself in the lead role, and proves incredibly irritating. How many pages of dialogue did he write or - shudder - improvise for himself? And it's painful to see him smirking his way through scenes opposite a real actor, Ray Wise who plays Decker.Many other scenes were misjudged - the first camera stakeout where they wouldn't turn on nightvision because "it's all green", the utterly pointless Boston sequence, the bad acting at the convention etc. Others play themselves, and they're OK because the scenes are mercifully brief.The music was poor, just bland and obvious.I liked the story, and it did get its spooks on in the final scenes. But the director ought to have taken the advice given early on - get an actor to play himself.Overall very frustrating. But not as bad as Kevin Smith's directorial snigger in Tusk.