Soft for Digging (2001)
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71% of critics liked it
(7 reviews) -
23% want to see it
(139 ratings)
This stylized horror film, shot on 16 mm film and produced on a shoestring budget of 9,000 dollars, made its debut at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. When Virgil (Edmond Mercier) goes on a search for his lost pet cat, he becomes involved with the ghost of a murdered girl (Sarah Ingerson). Although… More This stylized horror film, shot on 16 mm film and produced on a shoestring budget of 9,000 dollars, made its debut at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. When Virgil (Edmond Mercier) goes on a search for his lost pet cat, he becomes involved with the ghost of a murdered girl (Sarah Ingerson). Although there is little to the story, director JT Petty (who also wrote, produced, and edited the picture) makes the brave artistic decision to film the 74-minute feature with less than a minute of dialogue, and only one word spoken during the first half of the movie. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Directed By
- J.T. Petty
- Genres
- Drama, Horror
Unrated,
- Studio
- Vanguard
Critic Reviews
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Johnny Butane, Dread Central
You can still have a very effective horror film and use no dialogue, a very deliberate pace, static camera shots if you know what you're doing.
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Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
Intriguing for the first half hour, Digging's gimmick unfortunately gets tiresome too quickly
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Anita Schmaltz, Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
...leaves a gruesome aftertaste à la The Ring...[however] its strengths lie elsewhere.
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
an exercise in craft economical and brilliant.
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Cast
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Edmond Mercier
as Virgil Manoven
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Sarah Ingerson
as Claire
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Andrew Hewitt
as Shovelman
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Katy Petty
as Paperboy
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Wayne Knickel
as Shakespeare
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Joshua Billings
as Dick
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David Huusko
as Priest
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Mia Todd
as Orange Vested Citizen
