In 2023, they added two more victories to their total to take their tally to 14.
It’s a trip.Over the last few years at the TT, the Birchalls have become the pinnacle of the Sidecar class. One sometimes thinks of the gonzo stylings of another horror indie, 1979’s “ Phantasm.” In its own way, “The Deeper You Dig” dares to get almost as unhinged as that picture.
Individual shots play with focus and lighting in ways that yield substantial horror-movie bang, and their concoction of settings that create a surreal contrast to the rural locations is always satisfyingly crafty. In addition to crafting a story that, while not entirely unfamiliar, has enough perverse twists to feel fresh, the Adamses, while working with a low budget, practically revel in the mechanics of moviemaking. He tells her to get out of his head, and she confidently asserts that she is not in his head … yet. “I know you’re not real,” he grumbles to her as she mocks him while sitting on that fireplace mantle. Frankie keeps appearing to him even after he’s dug her up and dismembered her. Slowly and rather terrifyingly, sometimes in the form of grisly dream sequences.Īfter burying Frankie, Jack, understandably, is even less capable of keeping his mind on his work. The disappearance of her daughter brings that touch back. Frankie’s nameless mom, played by Poser, is a psychic who years ago lost her “touch,” and now works as more or less a con artist. The person he hits is Frankie (Zelda Adams), a feisty, zesty, wholly lovable teen whose eccentricities include a taste for the kind of music mostly heard on 78 RPM records, or emanating from vintage radios. And one night after a couple shots too many, driving home and swerving to avoid some deer on the snowy rural road (this movie’s sense of snow is almost as intense as that of Kubrick’s “ The Shining”), he looks away from the windshield for a second and boom, his life changes for ever and not for better. But he likes a drink as much as, if not more, than his work. John Adams plays Jack, a taciturn hirsute dude who’s renovating the house. “After You’re Gone” is the crackly song emanating from it. The movie begins with evocative shots of an old, empty, decrepit house with a vintage radio sitting atop a fireplace mantle.
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