Digging Up The Marrow
A documentary exploring genre based monster art takes an odd turn when the filmmakers are contacted by a man who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real.
30 August 1963, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
4 December 1951, Santa Monica, California, USA
30 December 1945, New York City, New York, USA
20 August 1979, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA
17 February 1954, Tripoli, Libya
31 March 1975, Holliston, Massachusetts, USA
8 April 1955, Auburn, California, USA
19 November 1986, Long Beach, California, USA
February 20, 2015
The concept feels strained at feature length as it never establishes consistent tension or generates any meaningful suspension of disbelief.February 20, 2015
A meta-variation on Clive Barker's Nightbreed, Digging Up the Marrow tackles all the same questions [...] with considerably less grace and intelligence.February 19, 2015
Much of Digging Up The Marrow plays like Green's love letter to his fans and to the importance of fandom in genre filmmaking.February 19, 2015
Smart, witty and genuinely scary in places, Digging Up The Marrow delivers much more than you'd expect based on its knowingly cheesy premise.October 09, 2015
Loses me in a haze of winks and Adam Green celebrating Adam Green.February 19, 2015
Digging Up the Marrow is a playfully self-reflexive exercise whose endless in-jokes will best be appreciated by only the most ardent genre aficionados.August 23, 2015
Works as a dry comedy, a slow-burn campfire story, and as a clever look at our frustratingly one-sided relationship with the paranormal.February 23, 2016
More cheerfully spooky than legitimately scary, Marrow is an interesting use of the well-exhausted found footage subgenre.February 20, 2015
Digging Up the Marrow is slight fun to be sure, but it is fun.February 19, 2015
Perhaps Green's admirers will embrace his lead performance and insistence on boo scares, but the rest of this limp outing reeks of a missed opportunity.February 20, 2015
Here's hoping Green's next film is just 90 minutes of Ray Wise talking to an imaginary friend.February 20, 2015
"Digging Up the Marrow" could have been an effective riff on Barker's "Nightbreed," but instead becomes just another found footage horror lark.