Synopsis

A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.

Official Review

Perhaps a better tagline for Sheldon Wilson’s creepy “Shallow Ground” would be “Evil never dies”. Winner of the Best Picture Audience Award at the Dead By Dawn Film Festival 2004, “Shallow Ground” has been called “disturbing”, something that “stays with you for days after you see it”. The movie begins with an amazing opening sequence of a boy stalking through some woods. A naked boy. Covered in blood. Carrying a hunting knife. Intercut with his determined march are bizarre images of what I can only describe as “taxidermy” projects in progress. And the menacing score over all of this only heightens the tension. …Read More