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Young Autumn (Riley Yeary) is more or less forced to spend her summer
in the country pretty much in the middle of nowhere with her father (Scott
Novotny), who won't tire telling her how much he loves her ... but
ultimately he's out for work almost all the time, leaving Autumn with
little to do. And one day, she finds a girl of roughly her age in her
bedroom, Charlotte (Angelina Masciopinto), who has been sketching her
while sleeping, and who now won't lay off until the two are best friends.
Autumn isn't even too sure about Charlotte, but her aura of positivity
just sucks her in nevertheless. Eventually the two of then pick up Parker
(Kaleb Miller), who usually hides out in the woods and is a bit of a
loner, and he joins them ... as Charlotte wouldn't allow it any other way,
and because he feels really drawn to Autumn. Eventually, the three of
them enter the local museum on their own ... and promptly encounter a
ghost. And while Autumn is so freaked out by this that she wants to drop
the story right away, the others persuade her to do some investigation on
the subject, first in the library, then in the local registry - which is
actually a part of the museum. Their not always legal research eventually
gets them into an abandoned mine where they think they stumble upon an
army of ghosts - which have them leave in haste ... but these ghosts might
not even be the problem, there might be a demon after them ... Even
though The Unearthing most definitely has horror elements to it,
these play strictly second fiddle to the coming-of-age drama that unfolds
in the movie - and as unlikely as it sounds, this approach works this time
around, too - first and foremost because the three young protagonists feel
real for a change, not sugar-coated, not given this aura of
"innocence", but having their strengths and flaws, their
likeable and unlikeable traits, and none's safe from fucking up from time
to time. That all is of course helped by a great trio of young actors who
really manage to carry their multi-faceted characters, and also a script
that gives its characters much space to breathe rather than pressing them
into its rather straight-forward horror (sub-)plot. Plus, the direction
really gets its best out of its locations and always puts atmosphere over
simple spectacle. A rather cool movie, actually!
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