2022 · comedy · horror · mystery
Something in the Dirt
Directed by Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson1h 55m2022
When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives.
Our read: Something in the Dirt (2022) reads as a neutral, measured, surreal comedy · horror · mystery entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- surreal
- twisty
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