SOMETHING IN THE DIRT (January 2022)

   

SOMETHING IN THE DIRT

(January 2022)

“Well, a lot of things are still mysteries. You just don’t expect to witness one on a sh!tty afternoon in your cheap apartment.”

Yes, another Moorhead & Benson Film crash lands ‘round these parts…

“I mean, what’s crazier? Believing every single coincidence you ever see or just ignoring them all?”

In Something in the Dirt, Levi (Justin Benson) has just moved into his “cheap” L.A. apartment, when some strange phenomena start, drawing in neighbor John (Aaron Moorhead), and resulting in both deciding to make a documentary to get everything on record and hopefully, find an explanation along the way. (And maybe, make some scratch too, if they can sell the doc to, oh, say, Netflix?)

“Well, why can’t it be a group like the Freemasons or the Moose Lodge or… what’s the one that’s on Discovery Channel all the time? It’s the Rose Croutons.”

“‘The Rose Croutons’? The Rosicrucians?”

Moorhead and Benson’s latest--which, from a certain perspective, is essentially their attempt to make The X-Files today--is a fascinating exploration of how people impose their own meanings onto everything that surrounds them, and how, in trying to solve the mysteries that face us, our own imperfections and obsessions tend to obscure and tarnish what should otherwise be the purity of the unknown and the unexplained.

“Stop being paranoid. It’s weird.”

Parting Shot: The duo’s past ¡Qué horror! mentions can be found here, and here, and here, and here.

(Something in the Dirt OS courtesy of impawards.com.)