Rent Something in the Dirt (2022)

Patchy - Something in the Dirt review by sb

FILM & REVIEW Another sci-fi oddity from Benson and Moorhead and even by their standards it’s a a real left field one. Basiscly a two hander with the directors playing the 2 characters. Levi is a washed up stoner who rents a run down apartment in LA and encounters John who seems to the only other inhabitant of the Complex. Levi discovers a crystalline object that seems to have extra dimensional powers and he and John decide to make a documentary about all the weird things that happen around it. From the outset neither Levi or John are telling each other the whole truth about themselves and as we see them making the documentary we see them practicing re-enacting parts of it for the camera so are they really telling us the truth either? Add in esoteric investigations into numeroligy and secret societies and the fact that LA was apparantly built around a plan based on ancient ratios and you have the basis for some really interesting stuff. Unfortunately although some of this comes through it does tend to get bogged down in both guys bitching about each other and each time some hidden truth is about to be revealed it’s just another sleight of hand played on the audience. It’s worth a look but anyone expecting the level of some of their previous work is going to find it fairly hard going - 3.5/5