Shallow Ground
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| Directed by | Sheldon Wilson |
| Written by | Sheldon Wilson |
| Starring | Timothy V. Murphy Stan Kirsch Lindsey Stoddart Patricia McCormack Rocky Marquette |
| Music by | Steve London |
| Cinematography | John P. Tarver |
| Editing by | Sheldon Wilson |
| Distributed by | Imagination Worldwide |
| Release date(s) | 2005 |
| Running time | 97 mins |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $72,000 |
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Shallow Ground is a 2004 Horror film written and directed by Sheldon Wilson and starring Timothy V. Murphy, Stan Kirsch, Lindsey Stoddart, Patty McCormack, and Rocky Marquette. It was promoted with the taglines Fear your past... it will find you[1], and Don't Dig Too Deep[2].
A naked teenage boy (Rocky Marquette) appears at a soon-to-be abandoned sheriff's station, drenched in blood, on the one-year anniversary of the murder of a local girl that remains unsolved. Sheriff Jack Shepherd (Timothy V. Murphy) searches for the boy's true identity and intentions, while dealing with his guilt over failing to save the girl or solve her murder.[3]
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[edit] Plot Summary
Sheriff Jack Shepherd is tasked with investigating a mysterious blood-covered boy who shows up at his station one day. The boy appears to be supernatural in nature, and manifests unusual powers such as the ability to read minds or show other people his memories by touching them.
Meanwhile, an unseen stalker is killing and butchering people in the woods. The audience is led to believe that the weird bloody boy is some sort of supernatural killer, similar to Jason Vorhees or Michael Myers.
It is revealed near the end of the movie that the dead across the world are rising up and seeking revenge on the people that killed them. These dead manifest as blood-covered humans that seek out and kill their original killers. If a killer has more than one victim, all the victims merge together into a single composite being. The blood-covered boy is one such being, made up of 6 people from the community who were killed by the stalker some time before. He is going around reading people's minds to learn the identity of his killer.
The killer stalker turns out to be a local older woman, who has been murdering people in the community for some time. Her family was killed when the local dam broke, and in revenge she has been killing everyone involved with the dam, as well as their families. The bloody boy eventually tracks her down and kills her, just as she is about to kill Jack.
The movie ends with a shock ending. The bloody boy is walking through the woods, when he is suddenly attacked and killed by another blood creature, this one much larger and more demonic-looking. The identity of the second blood creature is never explicitly revealed, but from the creature's appearance it is implied to be the old woman from earlier.
[edit] Reception
The film received mixed reviews, but became widely popular among horror fans, with Patty McCormack and Rocky Marquette receiving favorable reviews.
