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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Hacienda Film Co.
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Hacienda Film Co.
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary What if the ghastly images and abominations haunting our collective nightmares actually exist? Writer/director Adam Green sets out to make a documentary exploring this tantalizing premise after being contacted by a mysterious man named William Dekker (Ray Wise). Dekker claims he can prove that “monsters are real” and insists these grotes...

Directed By: Adam Green

Written By: Adam Green

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Hacienda Film Co.
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Hacienda Film Co.
  • 1 h 29 m

Digging Up the Marrow

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary What if the ghastly images and abominations haunting our collective nightmares actually exist? Writer/director Adam Green sets out to make a documentary exploring this tantalizing premise after being contacted by a mysterious man named William Dekker (Ray Wise). Dekker claims he can prove that “monsters are real” and insists these grotes...

Directed By: Adam Green

Written By: Adam Green

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
45
13% Positive
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75% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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75% Mixed
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13% Negative
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67
Feb 18, 2015
More playful than genuinely creepy, Adam Green’s hybrid mockumentary Digging Up The Marrow deserves credit for trying to re-think the done-to-death found-footage horror formula, even if its self-reflexive angle amounts to little more than a whole lot of unrealized potential.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 17, 2015
Ultimately, Digging Up The Marrow is more of an affectionate comedy than a horror movie, despite a third act that features some tense moments and hostile critters.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 22, 2015
Digging Up the Marrow could have been an effective riff on Barker's "Nightbreed," but instead becomes just another found footage horror lark, with occasionally nifty effects and an overriding sense that Green's ego, and not a wonderful Ray Wise performance, is what the movie is really about.
By Drew Taylor FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 17, 2015
In the end, Adam Green reminds us that he's all to eager to go for the easy thrill.
By Wes Greene FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 22, 2015
The results are decidedly more mind-numbing than bone-chilling.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 17, 2015
After poking fun at both Green's lack of originality and the hackneyed nature of found-footage shockers, Digging Up the Marrow merely resorts to climactic shaky-cam footage of people running through the pitch-black woods -- thereby becoming the very dull, clichéd thing it mocks.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
38
Feb 20, 2015
Green, who plays a snotty version of himself, doesn't follow through on any of the ideas that make his film stand out. As a result, Digging Up the Marrow just uselessly lies there, like a cat during a heat wave.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ArieScope Pictures
Release Date Feb 20, 2015
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

BloodGuts UK Horror Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations

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