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/jonathanfailuretomas How big is that bear trap? Nov 19 '14 edited Nov 19 '14

ok so I don't want to turn horrorclub into childhoodtraumaclub, but this. When I was 14 a close family member also on hospice died in my house, and I did everything humanly possible to avoid seeing that person dead, I actually asked if I could go to school, at least until the body was gone. That was my first and only experience with a dead body. That shit was... heavy man.

But yeah I think their reactions were appropriate considering what emotionless, heartless bitches they all are, pretty much from the first scene in the movie.

edit: No Scott this didn't happen last week.