Something in the Dirt

There's a kind of poetry here, both a reflection of their city and of dead-end lives...

...this is another pocket lint sci-fi from the current masters of such. A welcome sign that Benson and Moorhead haven’t gone fully respectable just yet.

...it wrings a mini-cosmos out of next to nothing, its delicately transcendent visuals – courtesy of Moorhead’s photography background – constantly signposting some higher truth just around the next corner.

Filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead discover an ominous paranormal entity in their meta fifth feature.

In an era of post-reality politics, Something in the Dirt may be a quiet wake-up call.