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Shallow Ground Reviews

2004

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A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims... Read more

Starring	Timothy V. Murphy, Stan Kirsch, Patricia McCormack, Lindsey Stoddart
Director	Sheldon Wilson
Genres	Horror, Thriller

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Critic's review of Shallow Ground
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- A frustrating mix of the familiar, the surprising and the downright daft, Sheldon Wilsonâs ambitious, underachieved... read more on Time Out
- 48640
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:19
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- - 16
  - 4
  Warning may contain slight traces of blood!!
  
  Film starts off looking like a slasher movie, but within a very short space of time things start to happen and you realise there is more to the movie. ... read more »
  
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- 167020
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Julie Gallagher
  - North Shields, Tyne and Wear
  - 28 Oct 2005 at 12:41
Most recent members' reviews of Shallow Ground
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- - 0
  - 0
  More fun to poke your eyes out........
  
  This has to be the crapist horror going, what a mish mash load of trash, bloody weird, bad acting, bonkers story line got bored and went to bed, avoid... read more »
  
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- - showpony
  - 22 reviews
  - Peterborough
  - 23 Dec 2011 at 23:56
- - 0
  - 0
  What a wierd film!
  
  I didn't get the point of this film at all. It was wierd from start to finish. If you like the bizarre, you will probably enjoy this, otherwise I wouldn'... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 17 Jun 2011 at 15:25
- - 0
  - 0
  STAY AWAY
  
  Someone mind telling me what happens at the end ? Because it was THAT bad, I switched off 40mins in ..... I'm sorry, but that was completey pointless, dull... read more »
  
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- - vanilla_quiff
  - 284 reviews
  - Gatwick, England
  - 13 May 2011 at 22:20
- - 0
  - 0
  Shallow Ground
  
  Bored me to death, no proper story line, no plot, utter crap, good insomnia cure. Far more better Horror films around.
  
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  - Thornton
  - 22 Mar 2011 at 12:39
- - 0
  - 0
  what a load of crap!!!
  
  this has got to be one of the worst films i have ever seen! and i have seen some bad movies. the plot made absolutely no sense to me! do not rent this movie ... read more »
  
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  - lancashire
  - 08 Feb 2011 at 02:07
- - 0
  - 0
  not bad
  
  acting could of been better as quite a good story line but was not done very well. could of been better.
  
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- - jessiebelle
  - 7 reviews
  - great yarmouth
  - 01 Oct 2010 at 08:17
- - 1
  - 0
  Shallow Ground
  
  Not one of the greatest movies HORROR ??.Not any good if your expecting a great horror - If you like watching movies like Saw,The hills have eyes etc then this ... read more »
  
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- - WAREWOLF23
  - 8 reviews
  - NOTTINGHAM
  - 23 Mar 2010 at 18:07
- - 0
  - 0
  Awful!
  
  Badly acted, crap plot, boring & not scary whatsoever. Turned it off halfway through!
  
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- - gianino
  - 502 reviews
  - London
  - 30 Nov 2009 at 13:36
- - 0
  - 0
  shallow what?
  
  Didnt really understand this and I couldnt frankly be bothered. Lot of the red stuff about, the camera focuses on this all the time, dunno why it doesnt have ... read more »
  
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- 829968
- - riacat
  - 7 reviews
  - CHATTERIS
  - 11 Nov 2009 at 12:41
- - 0
  - 0
  Oh dear!
  
  An absolute bag of mashings! I want to find a good horror that scares the pants off me and makes me want to sleep with the light on! This is very lame with bad ... read more »
  
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- - blackgal
  - 211 reviews
  - Worksop
  - 13 Oct 2009 at 18:51
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- - 16
  - 4
  Warning may contain slight traces of blood!!
  
  Film starts off looking like a slasher movie, but within a very short space of time things start to happen and you realise there is more to the movie. ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 167020
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Julie Gallagher
  - North Shields, Tyne and Wear
  - 28 Oct 2005 at 12:41
- - 8
  - 2
  What a pile of poo
  
  Me and my boyfriend kept looking at each other throughout this (horror??) movie waiting for the other to give the nod to turn it off! A load of blood and some ... read more »
  
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- - Kirsty
  - Manchester, England
  - 09 Jan 2006 at 19:09
- - 8
  - 3
  Aaarrrggghh .....
  
  What an annoying film; Irritating music, badly acted, terrible plot, I only just made it to the end. Definately not on my top 10.
  
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- - chillipepper1
  - Essex
  - 25 Oct 2005 at 09:24
- - 5
  - 0
  Gruesome,not worthy of 18 rating !
  
  Shallow Ground, A mixed bag of a movie,and not really sure what it wants to be,revenge horror,eco horror,stalk & slash.But slow and tedious it is till the ... read more »
  
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- - Nicola
  - Sleaford,Lincolnshire
  - 28 Feb 2006 at 10:41
- - 4
  - 1
  Stick with it!
  
  The film starts off a little slow and strange but it turned out to be quite a good film, some gore and violence for those who enjoy it! And the twist to the ... read more »
  
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- 179329
- - a customer
  - Leicester, England
  - 28 Nov 2005 at 18:55
- - 3
  - 0
  Original Sinners
  
  A decent little no-budget horror movie which – if nothing else – boasts an original premise, something which has been completely lacking in the horror... read more »
  
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- 213411
- - a customer
  - UK
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 14:26
- - 3
  - 0
  Yawwwwnnnnn
  
  It is the sort of film you find on Channel 5 at 2.30 am - awful !
  
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- - geraint whitley
  - St Albans, England.
  - 09 Sep 2007 at 20:10
- - 2
  - 1
  Excellent horror
  
  Well, it frightened the bejeepers out of me - all the right ingredients for an excellent horror film.
  
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- 198207
- - a customer
  - Peterborough, England
  - 25 Jan 2006 at 08:47
- - 1
  - 0
  Rubbish
  
  Don't bother renting this poorly acted,badly written pile of rubbish.
  
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- - a customer
  - Belvedere,Kent
  - 30 Jan 2006 at 21:41
- - 1
  - 0
  Dull
  
  Starts off ok, but after 10 minutes you realise that nothing is going to happen. I was so bored by the time the 'twist' ending rolled around. Lame!
  
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- 212878
- - a customer
  - london
  - 01 Mar 2006 at 10:39

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Critics' reviews
- A frustrating mix of the familiar, the surprising and the downright daft, Sheldon Wilsonâs ambitious, underachieved... read more on Time Out
- 48640
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:19
- Easily one of the most original horror films of the last year.
- 39483
- - Fantasia
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:20
- It's a movie after our own heart, liver and spleen
- 39484
- - Metal Hammer Magazine
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:20
- Shallow Ground is a thing of macabre beauty
- 39485
- - SFX Magazine
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:20

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  A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible ...