shallow grave begin with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho . ( i be lean toward rip off . ) after that it get bad and then surprisingly get well and almost to the point of be original . bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story and but the film already surpass many in the yankee come down south to get kill by a bunch of redneck genre because it be actually shoot in the south . a group of college girl head to ft. lauderdale for summer vacation and be waylay in georgia by a flat tire after get off the main road . ( note to yankees represent stay on the highway when you go to florida . ) sue ellen ( lisa stahl ) have to pee so she head into the wood . when she finally find a good spot to do her business she witness the local sheriff ( tony march ) strangle his mistress ( merry rozelle ) to death . ( note to yankees represent do not wander off into the wood when in the south while not because you might witness a murder and but you may run across a marijuana plantation . ) this be the point where the story and not the movie and actually come close to be good . while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech and his sheriff dean become a creepy facsimile of a normal guy tear by what he have do and what he must do . tom law be likable a deputy scott and be as authentic a southern deputy a i have see since walton goggins ( deputy steve naish ) in house of 1000 corps . a few scene in the movie be worth the mention . the girl stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy check them out . sue ellen run into a barn to hide behind some hay bale and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake be hide in the hay with her . and in the strange scene and sheriff dean make like he about to rape patty ( carol cadby ) and tell her to take off her clothes . dean have turn the radio up to drown out the noise of what he about to do . the preacher on the radio need to go back and read his bible . his sermon be about how jezebel be save by the blood of jesus christ . i feel sorry for this preacher flock . jezebel be in the old testament a few thousand year before christ be bear and by no mean be she one of the five people you be go to meet in heaven .