Shallow Grave

Director: Danny Boyle

1995 / 89min / DCP

The stylistically exuberant feature debut of both director Boyle and Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge, featuring a breakout role to a young Ewan McGregor, Shallow Grave is a lean, mean low-budget suspenser with a coal-black sense of humor, observing the fallout that occurs after a trio of Edinburgh flatmates (McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox) find their mysterious new tenant dead of an apparent overdose—and then decide they might as well discreetly dispose of his corpse while hanging onto the suitcase full of cash he’s left behind. “What makes the film fascinating, and exciting, is its marriage of British setting and American, B-movie format. It is as if Edgar G. Ulmer or Robert Siodmak had been reborn in Scotland.” —The Independent