{"id":15671,"date":"2015-10-07T00:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15671"},"modified":"2015-10-07T00:31:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:31:43","slug":"digging-up-the-marrow-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/digging-up-the-marrow-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging up the Marrow (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You figure a pro like Adam Green would remember rule number one about film making: Never star in your own movie. Green isn\u2019t exactly Woody Allen, and doesn\u2019t take his advice opting instead for a starring role in a movie that\u2019s thick with smug nods and pats on the back from Green to Green. I don\u2019t mind a little self indulgence from filmmakers, but \u201cDigging up the Marrow\u201d focuses on a guy who\u2019s barely in to his film career and wants to convince the world he has a hardcore rabid fan base. He advertises it as such.<\/p>\n

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There are montages of Green at conventions, taking photos with fans, and all it does is reveal that Green barely has enough narrative for ninety minutes let alone an hour. There\u2019s only so much of it I can take before \u201cDigging Up the Marrow\u201d eventually loses me in a haze of winks and Adam Green celebrating Adam Green. One thing is for sure, Adam Green is no actor, and he seems to acknowledge that by breaking the fourth wall, allowing the film to play like a mock documentary. He doesn\u2019t have to stick to the script and seems to improvise quite weakly at times.<\/p>\n

Ray Wise hams it up big time, completely chewing the scenery while Green is left in the dust as a smart ass version of himself. He snickers, winks at the camera, and smiles so much. \u201cDigging Up the Marrow\u201d would be a fine experiment but it just feels lazy, and almost like Green isn\u2019t even trying for any kind of worthwhile terrifying movie. It\u2019s all a lot of easy jump scares, and palaver that\u2019s supposed to count as tension and suspense. Wise\u2019s mugging becomes comical, making the film an uneven mess. Is it horror, comedy, or horror comedy? Is it satire? Is it purposely monotonous?<\/p>\n

We get it. Green knows a lot of horror heavyweights, and he has a lot of confidence in his team. At one point a (really good, I admit) jump scare reveals a glimpse of a monster, and Green shouts \u201cIf that\u2019s make up, that\u2019s damn good make up!\u201d Yes, we get it, Ariescope are good at what they do. \u201cDigging up the Marrow\u201d almost feels like a commercial at times with Green just touting every single project a billion times over, placing the story in the back burner more often than not. \u201cDigging up the Marrow\u201d could have been a nice twist on \u201cNightbreed,\u201d but in the end it\u2019s painfully self indulgent, brutally self congratulatory, and we can only hope Green has gotten it out of his system so he can go back to making movies like \u201cFrozen\u201d again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You figure a pro like Adam Green would remember rule number one about film making: Never star in your own movie. Green isn\u2019t exactly Woody Allen, and doesn\u2019t take his advice opting instead for a starring role in a movie that\u2019s thick with smug nods and pats on the back from Green to Green. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[62,249,259,370,477,501,673,678,703,1087],"class_list":["post-15671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-adam-green","tag-d","tag-dark-comedy","tag-found-footage","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mockumentary","tag-monsters","tag-mystery","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16791,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15671\/revisions\/16791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}