There’s something in SOMETHING IN THE DIRT that you’ll dig if you like excavating the off beat and surprising in your movie going experience.

One of the wildly original science fiction films of recent memory, SOMETHING IN THE DIRT is a ton of fun, eccentric and esoteric, a speculative adventure with crisp characterisation, droll dialogue, and imaginative imagery.

A movie equivalent of a set of of Matryoshka dolls, SOMETHING IN THE DIRT begins with lay back bar tender, Levi, (Justin Benson) moving into a block of flats and striking up a conversation with long term tenant, John (Aaron Moorhead).

Their banter is fun and formulates a fledgling friendship which flourishes into a film making collaboration. Based on the premise “What’s crazier, believing every single coincidence you experience, or ignoring them all?” the pair embark on a barking mad movie project documenting puzzling phenomenon in their dwelling.

As they pursue their project, their friendship frays as they uncover the dangers of the phenomena, their own personal demons, and their city’s dark past.

A cuckoo’s nest of narratives, SOMETHING IN THE DIRT is a potpourri of parallel universes, parasitic mind manipulation, Pythagorean number theory, alien portals, paranoia and suspicion.

Photographed by AARON MOORHEAD, written by JUSTIN BENSON, and directed by JUSTIN BENSON & AARON MOORHEAD, SOMETHING IN THE DIRT scatters a multitude of story seeds into a fertile style soil and harvests a rich bounty.

Benson and Moorhead prove to be formidable fable fabulists, their writing and acting chops transmitting a unique waveband on the imaginative spectrum creating a movie that seems to have been hit with a mighty meteor of metaphor. A sequence of unease and puzzling evidence pervade the picture.

Full of contemplative conversation, SOMETHING IN THE DIRT is sure to keep the contemplation and conversation going long after the lights come up.