The Blu-ray release is a jam packed affair with loads of extras including an interview with the Adams family, a video essay with film critic Anton Bitel diving into familial horror and a terrific audio commentary with The Deeper You Dig’s filmmakers John Adams and Toby Poser. It is not the spooky stuff that stays with you in this movie it is the unexpected journey the three characters, forced by circumstance, embark on together. She is forced to return to her mentor for help to guide the spirit realm to find her daughter and is forced to deal with grief and guilt over her death before she can find peace and allow Echo to find peace as well. Echo’s mother, Ivy is a flawed character who abandoned her gift as a medium and took the cheap, sleazy path of a huckster fortune teller working old ladies out of their money 50 bucks at a time with the promise of contact with their departed loved ones. In the end Echo and her mother are able to reunite and reconcile, albeit in an unorthodox arrangement.Īlthough on surface The Deeper You Dig is a pretty straight forward haunting/revenge tale, the deeper you dig into this film you find under the surface is a powerful exploration of guilt and grief. Meanwhile, Echo has her own ideas and begins to haunt Kurt starting out by messing with the radio, then getting into his head before ultimately taking up residence in his body to force him to confront his deeds and her grieving mother. Meanwhile Echo’s mother Ivy is searching for her daughter and in her desperation she turns to the occult in an attempt to find her lost Echo. When Echo regains consciousness, Kurt coldly strangles her in a bathtub and buries her in a shallow grave in the hard frozen ground. In his panic and desire for self preservation, Kurt scoops up Echo’s body and hauls her to the farmhouse he is renovating. Hard drinking house flipper Kurt is driving home, drunk, on a dark snowy night when he accidentally runs over teen girl Echo who is sledding in the dark. Filmed in and around the Catskills hamlet of Roscoe, NY, The Deeper You Dig examines the effect on three lives through the heartless actions of one thoroughly self absorbed man. The Deeper You Dig is a micro-budget 2019 horror film from the Adams Family (John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams) who wrote, directed, shot, and star in this snowblind tale of karmic retribution. The Deeper You Dig directed by John Adams & Toby Poser starring John Adams, Toby Poser, and Zelda Adams Arrow Video
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