Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

HumanoidOfFlesh 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.

Coventry This movie badly suffers from the M. Night Shyamalan syndrome, meaning that writer Sheldon Wilson desperately tries to be SO mysterious, SO ambitious and SO convoluted that, when the climax eventually approaches and the time has arrived to finally come up with some adequate explanations, the script can't possibly provide any more surprise twists or revelations that are strong enough to live up to the expectations that got built up. "Shallow Ground" isn't too bad, but it tries to be too much. The construction of a nearby dam has finished since a few weeks now, and almost the entire town of Shallow something is preparing to move out and start a new life elsewhere. The local police force as well nearly finished packing up everything in boxes when suddenly a young box walks into the station, entirely covered in blood. The kid won't stop bleeding the blood of at least three different dead persons; his fingerprints match those of multiple missing persons and he inconspicuously covers the walls with macabre messages like "No One Leaves". He appears to be a supernatural entity, the hybrid of several restless souls and unsolved murder cases that combined their strength to return from the dead and help the local authorities solving the mystery. Okay, so we've got a fairly original premise, a thoroughly moody atmosphere and literally gallons worth of blood (though very little on screen massacres). Then what went wrong and why isn't "Shallow Ground" ranked among the finest hidden horror gems of recent years? Well, partly because it was poorly promoted upon its release, but mostly because the film is incoherent as hell and ultimately fails to deliver. Besides, the basic plot outline may sound potentially fascinating but the story loses at lot of its impact very fast. "Shallow Ground" halfway suddenly swifts from being a supernatural mystery to an ordinary serial killer movie, and not exactly a very plausible or original one, I may add. Also, it's never good for a horror film to raise more questions than it can answer. But there are several positive remarks to make as well. "Shallow Ground" is a low-budget film, but it's nicely photographed and benefits from great make-up effects as well as competent acting performances.

Janette_Smith I think I did included a couple of spoiler, but I didn't want to get blacklisted, so I said yes just to be sure. Anyway, Timothy V. Murphy is this movie's only redeeming quality (basically because he is hot looking, he's got that Irish brogue working for him, too). First I gave it a 3, but I just finished watching it and I had to change that to a 1. It was stupid. It did start out very promising, but quickly took a big turn for the garbage can. I admit my attention started to wander and if I had not done so I might have been able to figure out what was bloody (pardon the pun) going on. And what the h@## was that at the end. Well, it did have a couple of good ideas, like the kid's fingerprints and the pictures collectively composing the kid. Excellent bloody people for special effects, as well. Oh, yeah, it did have Patty McCormack from 'The Bad Seed' (she so rocked in that movie). But all in all, please don't ever make me watch it again.

movieman_kev Sheriff Jack Shephard (Timothy Murphy) is in the middle of packing up and leaving town, when a mysterious blood-covered naked boy finds his way into the almost shutdown police station clutching a hunting knife. Now her and his deputies must figure out where the boy came from & what to do with him. The officers seem uncommonly nonchalant given the situations in the film, a small quibble perhaps, but I found that it took me out of the film. Willing to plow on because I found the story intriguing in some small way And it turned out to be a suitable enough time-waster, nothing great, but the ending was really, really bad and the writer/ director dropped the ball on that one.Eye Candy: Natalie Avital & Tara Killian both get topless (but the situations aren't titillating); a lot of naked man ass for the girls My Grade: C-