‘Wanna see some monsters? Grab a shovel.’
Digging Up the Marrow is a 2014 film written, directed, executive produced by, and starring Adam Green (Hatchet trilogy; Frozen) as himself along with his friends playing themselves: Will Barratt, Rileah Vanderbilt, Josh Ethier, actor Kane Hodder (former Jason Vorhees), director Tom Holland (Fright Night; Child’s Play), Mick Garris (Critters 2; The Stand), Sarah Elbert, Steve Agee, director Don Coscarelli (Phantasm films; John Dies At the End), Evan Dickson, Corri English. Ray Wise (Jeepers Creepers II) appears as William Dekker.
The film is described as a documentary about “monster art” that Green has made in collaboration with popular urban artist Alex Pardee.
On August 23, 2014, Digging Up the Marrow had its world premiere at Film 4 FrightFest in London. Green presented the film in a shroud of mystery with no screener copies, trailers, clips, or stills from the film available beforehand. While audiences and critics have so far honored the filmmaker’s requests to not spoil even the smallest of details about the film on-line, the response to the screening on Twitter by audience members was overwhelming ecstatic and just two days later Green announced on his blog that the film had officially sold for North American and UK theatrical distribution.
Details of this ArieScope Pictures production 2015 release are forthcoming…
Plot teaser:
When filmmaker Adam Green receives a package in his fan mail from a strange man claiming that he can prove that monsters indeed exist, he and his crew are taken on a mysterious, fantastical, and terrifying journey into the shadows and deep down under the ground below our very feet…
