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Movie Info

Falling on hard times, George Lomack (Marc Blucas) is desperate to save his family. Pushed to the very edge and barely making ends meet, he turns to the one place that can save his home, the gas and oil industry. Not heeding the warnings of his sagacious neighbor (Adrienne Barbeau), it soon becomes abundantly clear that Lomack has made a deal with the devil. A creeping terror has been released from the depths of his fertile land while George's family become shadows of their former selves. Now the two neighbors fight for survival against a poison that is infecting their soil.

Genre:

horror
Original Language:

English
Release Date (Theaters):

Apr 20, 2021 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Apr 22, 2021
Runtime:

1h 34m

Cast & Crew

Adrienne Barbeau
Kathryn Dolan

Critic Reviews for Unearth

All Critics (12) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (3)

Eventually Unearth turns into a gnarly soap opera, and moments of shocking violence are met with an eye-roll instead of the shock that comes from winding up an audience.

September 3, 2020 | Full Review…

Nick Allen
RogerEbert.com
Ecological horror set amongst struggling farming families. A slow burn domestic drama becomes horror both bodily and Earthy. Great cast, great production, though some may consider the structure uneven.

February 14, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Alix Turner
Ready Steady Cut
While it's small-scale and local in its portrait of a particular community and family crumbling under pressure, it shows what could befall all of us - collapsing under the weight of our own selfish decisions.

September 22, 2020 | Full Review…

Katie Duggan
Film Daze
The message that fracking destroys everything is a powerful one, and the film-makers should be commended for tackling it in this kind of context, but considering how little the idea is expanded upon, it feels like a wasted opportunity.

September 11, 2020 | Full Review…

Joey Keogh
Wicked Horror
Unearth is a suspenseful character study that takes its time leading up to a disturbing climax.

September 10, 2020 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…

Molly Henery
The Blogging Banshee
Some genuinely nightmarish images sadly cannot save Unearth from its lack of clarity and cohesion.

August 30, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Kat Hughes
THN
A cautionary tale about the horrors of fracking, wrapped up in a drama filled with tragic social realism. A stunning eco-horror, and one of the best of its kind.

August 30, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

C.H. Newell
Father Son Holy Gore
I do think Unearth works as well as it does because of its performances, and for those who are a bit more flexible with their definitions of horror should enjoy what Swies and Lyons have created with Unearth.

August 29, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Heather Wixson
Daily Dead
...the performances by Blukas and Barbeau in particular are the two posts in the ground that humanize this story even when the fantastical elements start to sprout.

August 29, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Drew Tinnin
Dread Central
It's a reminder that what happens in remote places like this ultimately affects us all.

August 28, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Jennie Kermode
Eye for Film
Unearth is cinematically striking, with its stunning cinematography and chilling body terror, but the third act is the only piece of the movie that feels like it has any stakes.

August 27, 2020 | Full Review…

Ryan Larson
Ghastly Grinning
planted in all this domestic tragedy, there is indeed a cautionary parable, as the American dream... is shown being polluted by the follies of endless capitalist 'progress'. The result is one of the very finest nature's revenge films in many years.

August 26, 2020 | Full Review…

Anton Bitel
Projected Figures