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- A man is forced to dig his own grave in the desert.
DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE is used with permission from Kirk Larsen. Learn more at kirklarsen.org.
A car speeds out into a desolate desert. A man named Reggie gets out with a gun, and then opens the trunk, where another man, Dan, lies bound and gagged.
Dan is taken out and a shovel is thrown at him and told to start digging his own grave. Problem is... it's much harder to dig a big hole in the ground than the movies make it seem.
Directed by Kirk Larsen and written by Larsen and Amos Vernon, this subversively witty comedy short uses its strong foundation of excellent craft, writing and performance to portray a potential murder gone awry, to hilarious effect.
The central conceit of the humor revolves initially on playing with the rules and expectations of genre. The film starts off with an adrenaline rush with beautifully shot but ominously empty desert vistas, taut editing and a tense musical score. The cinematic build-up promises violence and thrills, building up momentum and suspense with each beat, and it obviously draws on Westerns and crime thrillers in both form and content.
But just as the pace begins to crescendo, the momentum stops as Dan complains that the ground's too hard to dig, and the film shifts into comedy mode. At first, the shift into comedy is brief, as Reggie and the storytelling attempt to get back to the business of dispatching this future corpse. But Dan can't help but keep tugging it back to reality, complaining the ground is too hard and that it will take too long for one person to dig a grave.
The excellent writing comes to fore and characters deepen, as the two men begin to argue and then finally talk. The narrative here starts to have a little fun, as the forward movement ambles into deep emotional territory for both characters. It's obviously skewed a bit towards heightened parody, but it's played by actors Henry Zebrowski and Amos Vernon with a nimble sincerity -- which only makes it funnier and even rather sweet.
The sweetness can't last too long, though, because Reggie has to get back to the work of being a hitman, and the final confrontation puts us back into thriller mode, complete with guns and fighting -- though things go down in an unexpected way, once again, with a denouement that's both loopy and yet makes perfectly logical sense in this funhouse mirror of a crime story.
Subversive, witty and self-aware, DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE is a terrific showcase of solidly excellent craft, storytelling and performance. But its ultimate cleverness is how it punctures the almost macho conceit of the thriller, with its promise of seamlessly direct violence and force, with the realism and awkwardness of real-life logistics and people, with their insecurities, vulnerabilities, fears and anxieties. The genre -- and the world -- demands a certain overpowering strength and dominance from these men. But trying to live up to that imperative just isn't possible -- and perhaps is folly to begin with. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
This was the longest piss in human history. 🤷
when you gotta go you gotta go
He could have did it on the ground to make it softer. Missed opportunity.
@Smooth Stone's Guardian five minutes right ?
K
No there was a longer piss on 30 nights of Paranormal Activity of lady with a dragon tattoo it's a parody scary movies
I was expecting this to be a serious film lmao
Yea
Hahaha same here
I swear everything they do is serious and then they hit us with this
Same, then he hit the floor and I though 'oh ok'
Same
I like that they acknowledge that you can't just dig a grave in a short time and that it actually takes a long time, especially for one person
And then of course skip past the actual digging at the end lol
@@bgloyalty well did you want to watch 3 hours of straight digging?
@@yeahok6240 There's no way that would be done in only 3 hours.
@@arthurrosa9403 It looks like it's almost sunrise at the end, would that mean it took ten hours?
if its not too deep then you probably can
“It’s criminal what they pay you guys”
*says the guy literally committing murder*
Wow you pointed out the joke well done..
@@Johnycum ok
it's intentional
@@doriangray7587 I’m aware.
@@PiyoFeather of course man. just pointing out the geniuses of the scriptwriter
He had so many opportunities to hit the guy with that spade.
Not without getting shot first.
I didn't know we had so many shovel experts in CZcams comments
@@cahidijoyoraharjo7833 when he was puking he could have hit him
@@braeden5361 Maybe he just didn't wanna risk it? IDK. It's a comedy. What more can I say?
@@-iamForgiven look at a pack of cards and then dig with the spade card
That's a coal shovel, meant for shoveling not Digging !
So it wasn't a shovel? What was it then, a digel?
Be honest. How many bodies have you made disappear? LOL
works great with snow aswell!
@@voidme457 eight
@@IronAxeGaming1 Lol lol lol lol lol
That guy was so extroverted, he actually managed to make meaningful conversation to the man killing him.
He tries to be nice with he’s killer so the killer would feel bad and won’t want to kill him
Well, he's a guidance counselor, so...
held his penile gland for him, that's a true friend
It’s a smart strategy
Hahaha ur comment everywhere new ray mak ahaha anyway u follow this channel flan
Alternate ending:
“This ground is too hard”
“Oh” *shoots him*
DIRECTED BY ROBERT B. WEIDE
Hey, it's not the dead guy's problem anymore.
pissed for so long the ground was soft enough to dig
LMAO
@@sumk_0434 LMAO
Jynx!
@Saint Anime LMAO
LMAO
I love how they become bros while he's still trying to kill him lmao
same
That’s the point of the video. Lol
Honestly such a guy thing. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten into arguments with people and ended up being chill with them after
@@TwentySevenClubb how?
Kind of like stockholm syndrome
This dude obviously put all his points into charisma
From the movie 'casino': you have to dig your holes in advance, otherwise some stranger could happen upon you digging a hole next to a body, now you have to dig two holes, next thing you know your spending the entire night digging holes and burying bodies"
And that was totally the wrong shovel to use.
“The best way to beat your enemy isn’t to kill him, but to make him your friend”
I don’t know where it comes from.
A man with a dog said it when you were smol
I think that's a sun tzu quote, but I may be wrong
Sensei wu
Said thwt
If you can't beat your enemy, join the enemy.
- 48 laws of power
"the greatest way to defeat your enemy is to make them your friend" -Master Wu; Ninjago
A man is forced to dig his own grave in the desert. But the Ground Is Bedrock.
Sandstone
@@duocamerakids6266 sandstone is really fragile smh bedrock is unbreakable
@@-magnus-8898 fragile? Bro, are you sped or something? 😂 Try breaking sandstone with a shovel, it takes a long time, but you’ll get it. And also, where is he? In a Desert, where there’s sand.
@@duocamerakids6266 r/woooosh
@@duocamerakids6266 its a joke cuz in Minecraft, sandstone is easily broken, and bedrock is unbreakable.
this was simultaneously sad, funny, urgent and endearing. wonderful short film.
the sad part is that he told the guidance counselor that he was his best friend. what kind of life did he live.
"There's different shovels?!" had me dead. lmfao
This is PEGI 12. I did not expect that. I'm not 12 so... OOF ME DUDE
I'm impressed how after driving through sand and dirt, that car is still clean and shiny.
Actually Alex, we did just straight up drive that car through sand and dirt! It was just such a bright shiny day (and it was clean before we set off into the desert) that you can't really see just how dirty that thing was. Driving that car to and from set was a joy. It was roomy enough to fit almost all the camera gear!
@@kurcules u helped make this?
@@pooslide1333 yes poo slide! I directed, co-wrote, and edited it! I also drove the car we rented to and from set lol
@@kurcules I pretty sure you just set him up for a sly insult because of his user name. Ha
@coc private server no he directed the film, helped write the story, and edited the video. He did not act
"There's different shovels!?"
Same bro. Same.
Should've used a pointy-er shovel. The flat end shovel is more for moving a lot of loose dirt at a time.
@@zzzxxc1 the shovel he is using is a spade I think
@@snax-candygaming9430 lol no it is not
@@snax-candygaming9430 what hahahaa
@@snax-candygaming9430 Exact opposite, its a coal or cement shovel. Its meant to move loose material, not break up ground
He still has to dig the grave. Damn, these plot twists were so good.
After years of Henry doing that 'I'm bleeding out here man.' bit on LPOTL he finally got to act it out. Amazing.
Finally! I'm sitting here scouring for anyone else talking about Henry and LPOTL. Hail yourself my friend.
*When your kidnapper is actually a good guy for conversations*
Whell he is a guidance counsellor for Middle School students
Well he did kidnap a guidance counselor lol make use of the ‘free’ health resources
I mean, nothing wrong with having a social life.
Then he turns out your best friend
This is ur only comment
That was the absolute longest piss in the history of piss
Wrong, there's been considerably longer pisses taken throughout history.
By dinosaurs for instance.
@@johnbicknell4748 pretty sure that was more piss than a brontosaurus bladder
piss until you piss
Then it is left hanging out in the wind. "It is getting in the way of the shoveling."
Couldve made the ground wet with that one 😌😌
Damn that ending was kinda sweet! He spent the rest of the day digging him a grave that was probably hell to dig out, all because they become bros :')
These guys are all bladder. But seriously, this was brilliant. I could see a TV series starring this middle school counsellor, having a string of adventures like this.
Me too got some reason.
So glad someone else said this cuz they pissin for like a minute straight
“It takes a lot to bury a friend.”
The hardest hole you could ever dig and a memory burned into your mind forever for sure :(
@@MIck-M r/im14andthisisdeep
@@MIck-M I’m crying so hard omgg
I just went to a wake to day
@@jonathanpeak2643 perfect English
Legit Hitman would have pre-dug hole.
Hes just doing what he was told to.
@Francesca Di'Frapolli Wanna find out?
Not really cus if they find the hole while the hitman is gone and when they go back (which they would when they find a 6ft long hole in the ground) and see that it's now filled they're gonna atleast call the cops and that's how people get caught
@@aidanbegovic9584
It's a random hole in the middle of the desert. No one's gonna suspect a thing.
@@Cykadelia but tbh who would go randomly into a desert,I was think about non desert areas,forests etc
I like how we see no progress in the digging of the grave and it just cuts to it being finished.
When he couldn't dig and the music stopped I died
I hope when I too get kidnapped by a hitman he will be this cool.
then he dies
"When?"
@@sophierenda9399 children bruh, children
Same and then he dies
Why would you even want to be kidnapped 😕
“There is two type of people in the world ,those who have a gun , and those who dig , you dig”
Clint Eastwood
@@teamsymptom9425 yeah
*Uno reverse card*
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
AHAHHAHAHA THATS SOOO FUNNY FBI AGENT now please stop tracking my google history
Plot twist: The hit man was never meant to kill the guidance counselor. The group that the hit an was apart of wanted him gone but had a strict set of rules that included not being allowed to kill one of your own, so they intentionally sent the hit an after the guidance counselor knowing the counselor would create an emotional bond with the hitman, an ability he had attained from years of counseling, and cause him to die from a serious accident. Therefore the group bypassed its own rules to kill the hitman.
That’s deep mate
Nice one👌
Gotta love how during this big emotional moment he’s still sitting there with the damn shovel taped
Gunman: Throws up
Man forced to dig his grave: *"Are you okay?" (While digging enthusiastically)*
Yeah it did because you hear a piece of metal ding
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”
That’s what this seems to be
For me it’s keep your friends close and keep your enemies way over there
It is -
Keep your enemies close.
But keep your guns closer.
@@nufkistruff9961 exactly
No, it's keep your shave close but not with scotch tape
I’ve never seen this channel and was thoroughly invested in this entire film 😂. That 13 minutes went so fast
I've just found the channel and am utterly absorbed by the films. They are great!
@@adrianmcgachie sm very beautiful short films here .very gripping
I mean it stars Henry Zebrowski of LPOtL Fame so he is naturally a funny person
This was sooo goooood! As a motion picture lover, enthusiast, and producer I can usually call what’s going to happened next. I thought I knew with this film but boy was I wrong! Great story! Great acting! Great production quality! I could watch this over and over again.
“Compound interest is a mf” 🙃
🤣🤣 it is indeed,🤣
666 LIKES WTH
10% interest rates too
He’s so polite. In better circumstances, they could be a good movie duo
Facts
Better circumstances?
I feel like I'm watching the first scene in a buddy movir
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”
"SCOTT STIRLING, the man, the legend!!!"
Nice to see this guy here😂😂
Each year he returns to his former friend's grave
Bffily4life
Plot twist: the peeing wasn’t a sound effect.
Your joke sucks mate
@@714w8 no u on his behalf
@@714w8 you are a joke
@@RigzisRoman
Lmao
@@714w8 e
Dude's so calm when talking to the guy who's literally holding him at gunpoint and being forcing him to dig his own grave
*Just remember. This all started due to the ground being too hard.*
Person forced to dig his grave: *Friendly chatter and enthusiastic digging*
Yeah lol.
"Do you have any work gloves or anything?" Best line ever. And the hitman tapes his hand to the shovel. ☺
There was tape?
@@even___ Yep. Lots and lots of duck tape. ☺
@@esahcaeeneiradgbo2464 duct tape**
12:07 I was ready for him to look behind to reverse and accidentally drive over the hitman as he drove away 🤣🤣🤣
I woulda said “I’m dying either way. You wanna kill me, you dig my grave lol”
Look what gambling has done to Jim Carrey!
omg-
😳
😂😂😂
It's Bruce Campbell and Jim Carrie's child.
@@mycat24 I think your the first religious guy on CZcams I don’t hate
If I had to dig my own grave I wouldn't. What they gonna do? Kill me? Well then you'll have to dig the grave LMFAO outplayed
Probably torture
torture dude
@@mintmango10 Yeah but if they're forcing you to dig your own grave torturing is more work that they probably wouldn't bother with if they wouldn't even dig a grave for you
@@b3at1
Cutting someone multiple times is easier than digging a grave
@@b3at1 the reason they make you dig a grave is torture in itself. It's the only reason they make you do it
6:20 how long was that piss like damn
2:20 the noise he made tho im weakkk
4:36
"Can you hold it?"
"Well, since my hands are duct taped to this shovel, you might need to"
The wheeze i just let out-
“Can you help me?”😂😂😂
That was definitely the longest piss I’ve ever witnessed 😂
Lol
Comedy wee.
How many pisses HAVE you witnessed hmm?
@@goldencomedy4377 some folks have been NCOs in the military where piss tests happen often enough to need NCOs to witness flow for integrity. I have seen alot more dicks in piss action than I thought I ever would.
They were just creating Bruhh moment
I died when he reggie finally pissed himself 🤣🤣
I love how he just says "bye bye" to his mob boss and then immediately catches it and gets even more pissed lol
That was one of the greatest build-ups to a comedy I have EVER SEEN. No joke.
Exactly.
I love the chemistry between these two.
SPOILER:
Too bad it got cut short by the ending
Yeah, if instead Reggie didn’t kill him and they went off together, this would be a perfect prologue for a full-length action movie. The both of them fighting against Reggie’s old boss with a lot of comedy as well... now I want to watch that
I thought it might end with him taking the other guy to the hospital and the would be killer surviving.
I saw like 4 good points in time where you could’ve hit the mobster with a shovel, I would’ve gone for it I think.
Unfortunately, the script writer wasn't a devotee of *Active Self Protection,* consequently had no idea such opportunities arise in similar scenarios. Thus we saw the end result courtesy of Madame Fate.
These two are so charismatic together. Love this.
This is the most accurate man bonding experience on pissing
Nice turn of events, the hitman had no redemption, even when he was dying he wanted to finish the job even if it meant asking his new friend to suicide.
@@lisawines98
Maybe don't read the comments before you watch the video? This is kinda on you.
@@pluto3194 I do that all the time, I just don't reply much
Best I can come up with is dedication to duty? Maybe if the office knew they’d have made him employee of the month 😂
I feel like this could be a good Seth Rogen & James Franco movie.
Not gonna happen these days..
That was surprisingly sad and touching. Well done.
One of the best short movies yet --sent a beautiful message in a macabre, yet funny way. The victim was smart in being friendly and showing his own vulnerability. I love that he dug him a grave and dignified the man who really, in his heart deep down, didn't want to be who he had become.
"I'm a guidance counselor." LMFAO.
Good for you 🙂
@@marcocollazo9870 they were talking about the video...
Oh that’s why he was so comforting
"Middle school😐"
In this film right here ladies and gentlemen is why I am a subscriber to this channel. I discovered this channel a while back on an older CZcams account that I had and found myself watching short films for hours in my day they are all extremely entertaining and they all are very well produced and occasionally you see some very well-known actors and actresses in them. And on this CZcams account I'm going to subscribe as well
Ive been watching creepy suspenseful shorts, i thought this was finna be serious im weakk😭😭💀 love this
i love how they’re just so chill about it and how the guy asked if he’s ok after he threw up 💀
Yeah, haha
I mean, the hitman was very dedicated to his job
i love how when reggie died you could hear him peeing
I recently dug a grave for my great dane, human size, seven feet deep. It took me around 3 hours, but i guess it depends on how fit you are (it is a heavy workout) and how the ground is. I am an average healthy young man, so i guess most people would take a few more hours. I guess that 8 hours or even 12 is not unrealistic.
At an old job of mine our posts digger was in the shop for a week so I had to dig out a bunch of 24" wide by 30" deep holes. Not huge holes but I had to dig so many of them. Worst week of that job
Probably depends on the soil too. And of course, if you have an inadequate shovel, it’ll take longer.
"and that kids is how i met youre father" cursed comment day one
Bru
Jesus, that was so wildly unfunny. Didn’t even exhale
@@maybeleggett1353 saying 'didn't even exhale' made me lmao
I mean don't give kids to the LGBTQ they need both parents
@@zejdland yeah cause parents never leave. So single parents don’t exist. Rightttt 2 parents
In Dutch we have a saying: "if you dig a hole for someone else, you are sure to fill in it yourself." This felt refreshingly opposite.
We have that in hungarian too. He who digs a pit for others falls in himself.
@@vindexworld4636 ja zeker
looks like this saying is a globally accepted phenomenon, we have something similar in India to
Je khado khode te pade in Gujarati
I mean technically you can wait for rain and itll fill it in by itself....
Is that the deadliest man within 10 feet Henry Thomas Zebrowski?!
I like to think the mound they run over in the opening scene is another shallow grave made under the exact same circumstances (00:27)
"A man is forced to dig his own grave in the desert. But the ground is hard."
*OOOF*
Thanks ya parrot
I hereby declare that the new word for spade is digging spoon, and the new word for spoon is eating spade
In linework, our one digging tool is called a spoon, look it up
@@DC-ct8tv can you actually use it to eat food?
@@ZackMathissa no its 12 feet tall
@@DC-ct8tv the one for semen?
Y e s 😆
Thumbnail and the title totally misguided me. I was expecting the story to be dark, but it was so light hearted.
Good content 😂👌🏻
This was so much different than what I thought it was going to be and I loved it so much more than I thought possible
This situation is hilarious and serious at the same time
Also depressing
Yes
If you can get friends with your kidnapper then you got some skills.
Stockholm syndrome works both ways, the longer you can keep them talking the more human you become to each other
@@robinpohl2702 thats not how Stockholm syndrome works
@@chupapi7620 fair enough it's two unrelated phenomena but still true
@@robinpohl2702 no, it's not stockholm sindrome, it's called being charismatic
First thought on seeing the shovel "Totally wrong type, you need a pointed one for digging." so glad it was brought up in the movie.
Everything was great as well.
He sounds so chill for the dude digging his own grave.
"There's different types of shovels?!" Ha, ha, I had to laugh at that because the first thing I thought when I saw that shovel was what idiot filmmaker would have thought that was the type of shovel you used to dig a hole in the ground? But it turned out to be a little bit of film-making genius after all.
The beginning part would make a good car commercial.
"wait, before you kill me, I just want you to play RAID SHADOW LEGENDS. it's a game where you-"
@@kingofallgodzillas9901 haha that’s good
I laughed SO hard at the over the top dramatic beginning!! Intense music..then... *SPANG!!* 😂😂🤣🤣 That was great!
"every thought of mine is so cliche, man" i m d y i n g
and that dude still pissed himself when he died
Another masterpiece! I have now begun to binge watch these short stories on breaks at work. Please keep them coming.
I work between breaks of movies
I think in the beginning when he parks up he drives over an old grave. Nice touch.
So this is what Gary from "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell" went to hell for
So this is what henry zebrowski is doing when Mufon doesn’t need him to hunt aliens.
Had the same thought 😂
wait let me get this straight. The bullet bounced off the shovel and then hit the hit man?
Slightly possible I guess not the part where the bullet goes back but the bullet getting bounced off is possible depending on the material of the shovel.
Richote
Shovels are usually made by titanium,theres now way a pistol can break through that.
Crazier things have happened
this happens a lot more often than you’d imagine.
Love your short films man. Subscribed.
I actually feel like the dude wants to really dig his own grave.
It was his fate lol
He wanted to die
Where my "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell" homies at.
was thinking the same thing.
But is it really gary?
Ayooooo henry is such a good character actor
Lol
Duck yeah I was thinking the same thing he lowkey looks skinnier good for him
You would think he would know a coal shovel after having to shovel the same pieces of coal in hell
This was so well done 👍 Love it!!