REVIEW: Two oddball dudes investigate paranormal weirdness in ‘Something in the Dirt,’ a DIY mystery that feels like falling down an internet rabbit hole.
moments, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s corny, enjoyableis as noisy, spooky, and sense-tingling as a piece of haunted house gothic. Only it’s not set in a haunted house. It’s set in a pair of modest apartments in Laurel Canyon. Helicopters and planes fly low over this place. A forest fire rages in the background.
What follows is a movie that feels quite a bit like falling down a rabbit hole online. These men have too many tabs open in their brains. Worse, they feed off of each other.
Benson and Moorhead are having fun stringing us along on a journey that’s oddly compelling, just mysterious enough to be intriguing but obvious enough to be more comical — knowingly so — than thrilling. It’s a low-stakes, very DIY affair of the kind that Benson and Moorhead, frequent collaborators, have carved into a veritable lane for their work. As co-stars, the pair flex the usual muscles.
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