Absolutely Brilliant!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Lets do the bad first, some of the acting is barely adequate but overall acceptable and in moments good, at times the direction slows. Now the good even though the direction and pace slow it moves along the storyline never diverging into needless subtext. The plot line is very original from the moment the Blood Soaked Harbinger appears to the last reel. This movie grabs you, mesmerizing, scary, creepy on many levels and its never over the top gory or excessively violent. The secluded area begins to block you in creating an atmospheric claustrophobia, while the revelation of the killer is not as much a twist as it could have been you'll still find it satisfying.

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

This is the much lauded Shallow Ground---I heard a lot about this one a few years ago when I first started watching these kinds of movies. So, the basic premise is, this naked kid shows up covered in blood at this backwoods sheriff's office, and all hell breaks loose. A lot of stuff about the dead coming back for revenge, etc, etc, nothing that new. It's not a bad horror flick, but I can't say it lives up to the hype poured on it on the front cover or the critics. It's got some good scares, and it seems like something you'd want to watch around Halloween, that sort of thing. There's lots of gore and the first twenty minutes of the movie are very interesting and creepy. And the acting is alright, as well as the directing. The supernatural elements of the story and the revenge stuff was well done overall.But, the ending sucked, and most of the movie seems really...pointless, makes you scratch your head. A lot of things aren't properly explained, such as the back story behind the whole thing, and you get confused a lot. The plot is built up a lot, and that's good, but it all gets mushy and unclear after a while, which ruins it. They focused way too much on giving us bloody, naked men and beautiful women stripped nude and tied to trees, and on the gore, and they didn't seem to care about the story they were giving us. A lot of it didn't stick with me as memorable, either, which is not a good sign. So it turned out as half baked crap. Thus why I'm not spending too much time on this review, either. This movie lives up to it's name...it's shallow ground, little to no substance at all.PS, the trailers before the movie were some of the worst put together trailers I have ever seen. Screen Media Films should be ashamed.

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. :)