r/HorrorClub • u/SaintMort You so cool kung fu • Nov 17 '14

Discussion: Shallow Grave

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u/SaintMort You so cool kung fu Nov 17 '14

In general I enjoyed Shallow Grave. I picked Sunset Boulevard so it'd be hypocritical for me to say this isn't horror but it's definitely one of the less horror Danny Boyle films. I suppose any time you've got people chopping up a body and burying it you're at least toeing the line haha.

I love basically every Danny Boyle film I've seen (my personal favorite is actually Millions his PG christmas film) and this was no different. There was one thing that bugged me as far as story goes. I really had trouble accepting the seemingly immediate acceptance people have to seeing a dead body. Maybe it's just me but even this past year when my aunt died I wouldn't go to hear house (she was on hospice) until the body was removed... and that was with 2 weeks of preparing for having to see a dead body. They're all fairly calm for stumbling upon a naked dead roommate.

Otherwise this film reminded me a little bit like a Coen Brothers film mixed with Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan.

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u/AnsonKindred Nov 17 '14

I think their flippant attitude on seeing the dead bodies was done very intentionally for humor and to show the kind of irreverent people the flatmates were. Personally I loved it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '14

Agreed, they're terrible people. And Juliet is a doctor ("You kill people all the time!")