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post #1 of 10
6/2/03 at 9:35am
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was an interesting experience for me. It showed at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival's horror weekend. It played in the middle of the day, not the most opportune moment for slowly building psychological ookiness. I admit that there was a point wherein I thought the movie was gonna lose me but by the end credits I actually found myself "digging" this film. It is almost experimental in tone and execution but many of the more patient of you might actually enjoy the experience. Petty's debut was impressive in an original way.
I too would like to see this get released. I wonder how different the experience of watching this on a dvd might be from the theatrical showing?
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post #2 of 10
6/2/03 at 1:32pm
Haven't seen it yet, but the Madstone near me (Ann Arbor, MI) is showing it right now, so I'm sure they're pushing it around their locations. Will hopefully check it out before it scoots on outta there.
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post #3 of 10
6/3/03 at 3:53pm
I like the sound of it as well, at least as the review made it sound, wisely hinting at a central mystery without revealing a thing.

The naturalistic, semi-voyeuristic style on display in Soft for Digging sounds like a real breath of fresh air in a period when over-produced, overly artificial, close-up and in-yer-face heavy-handed filmmaking techniques tend to overcome and dominate whatever passes for story and incident in today's horror movies.

Which is why I have a slight quibble with this quote from the end of the review:

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You can still have a very effective horror film and use no dialogue, a very deliberate pace, static camera shots if you know what you're doing.
It sounds to me like all that stuff, far from being any kind hindrance to telling a horror tale effectively on screen, could actually make for a far more engrossing, involving, layered horror movie than the standard "Lots of frantic edits and close-ups, now throw in the CGI boogedy and let's crank up the volume" approach.
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post #4 of 10
6/6/03 at 9:48pm
Damn. This was playing in May at the Madstone in Chandler, AZ and I missed it.
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post #5 of 10
6/6/03 at 10:24pm
In this particular case, it does help the story. It's not something that could be used over and over for variety of plots, but like I said in the review it seemed like Petty knew this was the only way the story wanted to be told, and it worked.

Few filmmakers could pull it off as well as he did, I honestly think that. Too much of the crowd making indepenent horror today were raised on 'Evil Dead' and 'Dead Alive', and sadly some think that's the only way to make an entertaining horror film.
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post #6 of 10
6/6/03 at 10:46pm
I'm lucky enough to have a Madstone near me back home. They really do play some great horror stuff there (along iwth all the great other films). I got to see Evil Dead 2 at a Madstone on Halloween night.
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post #7 of 10
7/2/03 at 10:53am
A quick heads-up for the people in the U.K. with satellite/cable.

Soft For Digging gets it's U.K. TV premiere on FilmFour tomorrow night at 23:35.
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post #8 of 10
7/2/03 at 11:14am
I really liked "Soft for Digging" and I liked his script to "Mimic: Sentinel," but I haven't seen more than "Sentinel's" trailer - anybody gotten an early peek at this pic?
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post #9 of 10
7/3/03 at 10:08pm
Bugger! and i just cancelled film four last month..
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post #10 of 10
7/4/03 at 1:31am
I watched it last night. I thought it was really good. Not as great as I was expecting, and the ending was somewhat of a disappointment, but it was still a solid, entertaining debut film. Well worth checking out if you get the chance.

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Bugger! and i just cancelled film four last month..
It'll get a showing on Channel 4 in a few months if it's anything like prior FilmFour premiere movies.
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