Digging Up The Marrow

Hi!  I'm Jess!  It's been a super hot minute since I have blogged, but when it came time to get back in the saddle I just had to blog about one of my greatest loves.  I am horror movie obsessed, have attended numerous cons on the subject and it's gotten to the point where I have to dig SUPER deep to find new ones that are on my level.  If it sucks, I'll still watch it until the end.  My goal here is to share the good and bad horror movies/shows I've come across over the years.  I'll try to do a feature review at least once a week.  

Also, if you go to my profile and click on "My Webpage", it will send you to a google doc I created during Quarantine.  It is a list (and growing) of some of my favorite- and maybe not so favorite horror movies, divided by genre AND I'm also starting to go through them and provide streaming information.  

That being said, let's get into it!  Since this is my first post- I'm going to chose one of my favorites.  Also, as new horror movies come out- I will be reviewing them fresh off the press, but I also will try to feature some you might have never heard of.  

DIGGING UP THE MARROW

2014

Director/Writer: Adam Green

Jessco Rating: 3/5 Pillows

So I have a lot of big feelings about this movie- mainly because it was one that my ex and I really loved.  Awww, Jess I'm so sorry!  Don't be!  He was an asshole.  That being said, he had great taste in horror films.  

So this is a found footage (spoiler alert: I am one of THOSE people- but I promise, they are all super rad!).  Adam Green, who also did Frozen (the horror movie not that other one) and Hatchet (starring the infamous Kane Hodder who also makes an appearance in this), directed and wrote this.  The interesting twist is that he stars as himself, which adds to the reality feel and also helps with the whole suspension of disbelief.  

Now here's the super cool, most awesome and wonderful part.  Ray freaking Wise is in it too!  Ray "My daughter was Laura Palmer" Wise!  Yeah!  I know, it made me excited too!  

So the basic gist is, Adam is playing himself as a semi-successful horror movie director.  He gets a weird letter from a retired police officer named Vance (Ray Wise) that he has proof that monsters exist and he wants Adam and his crew to come and film them.  

I won't give away anymore of the story, except to say that all of the actors are actually quite believable.  That being said, Ray Wise just flat out SHINES in this.  One of his best roles I have ever seen him in.  And dude, this movie has monsters!  And I'm talking old school, the Tom Cruise move "Legend" style.  No CGI making you think "Well that's some pretty good CGI, I guess?"  That's what I love about it.  Nothing pissed me off more than going to see the new IT in theaters and just wanting to scream because they took away the realistic horror that could have been the leper and exchanged it for some barely recognizable CGI blob meandering down the street and looking hella out of place with the rest of the imagery.  Unless you are making yet ANOTHER Lord of the Rings movie, CGI is NOT necessary.  It sometimes destroys an otherwise decent movie.  So yeah big props for that.  

So if you love it so much, why did you give it only 3/5 pillows, Jess? 

Good question, dear reader!  So this movie was obviously made on a budget and I TOTALLY sympathize with that.  But a couple of the scares were a little, womp womp.  And there is definitely one scene where you were supposed to scream, but you giggled instead.  Also, I felt like there was slightly more to the story that could have been exposed.  Finally, I just always want more monsters.  No matter how many, there will never probably be enough for me- call me greedy.  It's totally cool!  So yeah, solid flick- super imaginative, great cast, more monsters next time please and thank you.  

You should be able to find this bad boy on Prime.  

Until next time, Happy Horror to you!

~Jessco