The Look of Shallow Grave
June 14, 2012
Film Info
- United Kingdom
- 1994
- 93 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- English
- Spine #616
The diabolical thriller Shallow Grave was the first film from director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge (the smashing team behind Trainspotting). In it, three self-involved Edinburgh roommates—played by Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, and Ewan McGregor, in his first starring role—take in a brooding boarder, and when he dies of an overdose, leaving a suitcase full of money, the trio embark on a series of very bad decisions, with extraordinarily grim consequences for all. Macabre but with a streak of offbeat humor, this stylistically influential tale of guilt and derangement is a full-throttle bit of Hitchcockian nastiness.
Cast
| Juliet Miller | Kerry Fox |
| David Stephens | Christopher Eccleston |
| Alex Law | Ewan McGregor |
| Detective Inspector McCall | Ken Stott |
| Hugo | Keith Allen |
| Cameron | Colin McCredie |
| Andy | Peter Mullan |
| Tim | Leonard O'Malley |
| Lumsden | Robert David MacDonald |
| Travel agent | Tony Curren |
| D. C. Mitchell | John Hodge |
Credits
| Director | Danny Boyle |
| Producer | Andrew Macdonald |
| Writer | John Hodge |
| Director of photography | Brian Tufano |
| Executive producer | Allan Scott |
| Editing | Masahiro Hirakubo |
| Music | Simon Boswell |
| Production design | Kave Quinn |
| Costume designer | Kate Carin |
| Production manager | Sara Barr |
| Title music | Leftfield |
| Sound mixer | Colin Nicolson |
| Sound editor | Nigel Galt |
| Paintings | Stephen Conroy |
Disc Features
FILMMAKER-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Brian Tufano, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Two audio commentaries: one by director Danny Boyle and the other by screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald
- New interview piece featuring actors Christopher Eccleston, Kerry Fox, and Ewan McGregor
- Digging Your Own Grave, a 1993 documentary by Kevin Macdonald on the making of the film
- Andrew Macdonald and Kevin Macdonald’s video diary from the 1992 Edinburgh Film Festival, where they shopped around the script for Shallow Grave
- Shallow Grave trailer and Trainspotting teaser
- PLUS: An essay by critic Philip Kemp
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