Shallow Ground2005
“Fear your past... it will find you”
Directed by Sheldon Wilson
🏆 2 nominations
The premise
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
Horror Vault's take
When a blood-soaked teenage boy materializes without explanation at a remote sheriff's station, he brings with him the weight of a murder that never found justice. Sheriff Jack Shepherd, already haunted by his failure to close that cold case, is forced into a desperate race to uncover who — or what — this silent visitor truly is. As the night deepens, the line between the living and the dead begins to blur in ways Shepherd could never have anticipated. This low-budget shocker leans hard into atmosphere and dread, delivering a payoff that rewards patient viewers with a taste for the visceral and the strange.
Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Nudity, Themes Of Violent Crime Against A Young Woman
Cast
Timothy V. Murphy
Jack Sheppard
Lindsey Stoddart
Laura Russell
Rocky Marquette
Boy
Stan Kirsch
Stuart Dempsey
Patty McCormack
Helen Reedy
Natalie Avital
Darby Owens
Tara Killian
Amy Underhill
Myron Natwick
Harvey
Steve Eastin
Detective Russell
John Kapelos
Leroy Riley
Christine Avila
Mrs. Underhill
Chris Hendrie
Albert Underhill
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