Digging Up the Marrow

Digging Up the Marrow

Believing is seeing.

Directed by Adam Green

Produced by ArieScope Pictures

201588 min5.5 / 10

A meta-horror mockumentary that blurs the line between documentary truth and fabrication, using found footage aesthetics to explore obsession, belief, and the monsters we create.

A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

Questions people ask

  • Is Digging Up the Marrow scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 94% of films.

  • Does Digging Up the Marrow end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 91% of films.

  • Is Digging Up the Marrow easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

  • Is Digging Up the Marrow sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is Digging Up the Marrow violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

27/ 100

Cinnamon Score

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Rarity81

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Surprise14

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love8

How much audiences actually like it

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