Review of In the Earth (2021) by Moviemitch96 — 17 Apr 2021

In this indie horror pic, a scientist and park scout venture into the forest for their routine equipment run in the midst of a pandemic, but get much more than they bargained for. To give away too much would be doing the film a disservice, but unfortunately that hardly matters in my opinion, since the film ultimately proved to be much of a letdown for me.

Granted, there are some genuinely tense and creepy moments, especially in the given context of the pandemic that we ourselves have been witnessing this past year, but they're mostly overshadowed by an unfocused story, especially in the second half when the film begins to really lose its bearings.

There's decent acting involved from the select few actors in this film, but even they can't pick up the slack of the film's story, and the further it went on, the more aimless, pointless and random it all began to feel.

I found it increasingly difficult to make sense of anything in much of the second half. Overall, a creepy atmosphere simply isn't enough to overcome the shortcomings of this film's random and unfocused story, along with a lack of more genuine scares.