Hey guys, it’s Ryan here from explained, and welcome back to the channel. In today’s
video, today we will be watching a movie called “Digging to Death”.
This movie is about a man who is obsessed with his newly found money and what lengths
he will go to in order to keep that money. Let's get started. Turn on subtitles and spoilers
ahead.
The movie starts with David who has just bought a new house after his divorce. His daughter
Jessica has come to help him move into his new home, and to also provide some emotional
support to him.
But, David doesn’t look like someone in need of emotional support, as he seems very
excited about his new home. He takes Jessica to give her a tour around the house, and then
David finds a secret door inside a closet. Just at the bottom of the secret door, he
finds a 100 dollar bill, which he excitedly shows to his daughter.
With the money David found, they order Chinese food for dinner. David thanks Jessica for
helping him move in, and says he is really looking forward to this new chapter in his
life. During their conversation about their respective lives, Jessica says that she’s
concerned about her health insurance, as it won’t fully cover the treatment for her
heart condition. David tells her to not worry about the money, as he’s quite confident
on getting a promotion at work. He boldly promises to help Jessica with her medical
bills.
After dinner, Jessica leaves and asks her dad to call her if he needs anything.
Next day, David calls a landscaping agency to take care of his yard. After taking a proper
inspection of David’s property, the landscaping agent leaves saying that he’ll come back
in a week with all that he needs for the job.
In the afternoon, David gets visited by his friend Mark.
Mark asks David on how his move has been, and if everything has been settled out. David
then replies that he’s left to dig a hole for a septic tank. Mark finds it weird that
David isn’t hiring someone else to set up the septic tank. But David claims that he
knows how to do it, and doesn’t want to spend the money on something which he can
do on his own.
Later, he starts digging a hole for the septic tank, and ends up finding a box buried in
the ground. He takes the cover off the box and finds a dead body and a lot of cash. David
carefully takes out a stack of cash from the box, and covers the box back with sand.
He goes inside his house and finds the money to be real. He then starts to talk to himself
on what he should do about the money and a dead body buried in his backyard. Sensible
thing would be to call the police, but that means he won’t get to keep the money. David
finds himself in quite a dilemma.
At night, we wakes up to the sound of someone walking downstairs. He gets up to check and
finds nothing.
The next day, he goes to the office and gets high praise from his boss for his recent work.
His boss then shows him the office which he would get after the promotion.
David is worried about the money that’s in his backyard. So, he goes to a banking
consultant to get some advice. He lies that his uncle has a large amount of cash that
he wants to deposit in a bank. But the consultant warns him that depositing a huge amount of
cash without any source, will alert the IRS, and bring more trouble.
So, if David wants to keep the money to himself, he has to keep it a secret. He takes all the
money out of the box and starts counting it. In total, he finds out that there is 3 million
dollars. He puts all the money back inside his closet and then starts talking to himself.
One side of his brain tells him to call the police and report everything. But, the greedy
side of him warns him that if he calls the police, he won’t get to keep any of the
money which he found. Plus, the police can also take him as a prime suspect for murder.
Just like the previous night, David hears some strange sounds in his house. He takes
a baseball bat and goes downstairs to check. He notices that the main door to his house
was unlocked. David locks the door and goes to check on the 3 million dollars he has kept
in his closet.
When returning back to his room, he sees a figure standing outside the window. He quickly
gets outside and starts calling out the person who was outside of his house. To his surprise,
he finds that he had forgotten to cover the box which still had a dead body inside. The
dead body looks similar to the figure which he saw earlier. He checks the body to see
if it's actually dead, and finds that it has no heartbeat or pulse.
The next day, David goes to meet his friend Mark, who senses that David is bothered by
something. He asks what it is, but David lies that he’s just stressed out by his divorce
and work.
David gets to his house and sees muddy footprints on the door. He matches his shoe with the
footprints and confirms that it’s not his, but of someone else. He’s worried that maybe
someone came to his house and stole the money. He checks in the closet and sees that the
money is still there.
David calls Jessica who is with her boyfriend, and asks her to come see him. Jessica is worried
that her father might not be feeling well, so she leaves to visit him.
David wants to tell everything to his daughter, but he starts to fear that Jessica might tell
others about it, which will result in him having to give up the money. In the end, he
decides not to let her in on the secret.
David cleans the footprints in his house and when he enters his room, he again gets scared
by a dark figure, which later turns out to be his coat. But when he looks out of the
window, he sees someone in his backyard. He grabs a knife and goes outside to confront
the intruder.
After not finding anyone outside, he goes inside to keep the money at a safe place.
And the safest place he can think of is the box with the dead body. He seals the box with
nails after putting the money inside.
David has started to get really paranoid. All he can think about throughout the day
is about the money. He no longer focuses on his work, and his boss confronts him about
his lack of productivity inside the office. At night, he even gets a nightmare where he
sees the dead man trying to attack him.
David looks in his closet and decides to open the secret door inside it. While he is trying
to get the door open, he gets a call from the landscaping agent who tells him that he’ll
be arriving on Friday to take care of his yard.
David realizes that if he doesn’t take care of the dead body and the money before Friday,
the landscaping agent will find out everything and will report it to the police. He immediately
opens the box and finds some keys and a wallet from the bead body.
He takes out a stack of cash from the box and goes shopping. He buys some tools and
installs security cameras that cover every corner of his house.
He then uses the keys that he found from the coat of the dead body, to open the secret
door in his closet. After a few tries, he gets the door unlocked.
The door leads him down to a basement.
He slowly starts to look around the place, and finds dead bodies wrapped in plastic.
David gets shocked to see this, and wonders what he should do next. He contemplates calling
the police, but in the end he decides not to.
At night, his newly installed security alarm wakes him up indicating there’s an intruder
walking outside his house. David looks through the security camera footage, and finds the
dead man standing outside his door. He now believes that the person who he found in the
box is actually alive and is trying to take the money away from him.
The mysterious man moves away from his door, and David pursues him with a bat in his hand.
He goes outside and cuts his feet on a broken piece of mug. He slowly moves towards the
box as he expects the mysterious man to be hiding inside of it.
He grabs the dead body and shouts that he has found out about him. He tells him to stop
playing dead but gets no response back.
David has now truly gone insane as he is no longer sure of what is true and what is false.
The next day, he finds himself sleeping next to the dead body. He quickly gets out of the
box and sees that the money is still there.
David checks the time, and sees that he’s late for work. In a hurry, he gets ready and
gets in his car. And just when he’s driving away, he sees the dead man staring right at
him.
David gets out of his car, and the dead man starts to move to go inside the box. David
tells him that he already saw him, so he should quit pretending to be dead. But the dead man
pays no attention to him and goes back inside the box.
David grabs him and tells him to quit playing around. But the dead body as usual, doesn’t
respond back. In a bid to make him confess that he’s actually alive, David grabs a
chain saw and uses it to cut his leg. Despite being mutilated, the man doesn’t cry out
or anything.
He’s as dead as he could be.
David reaches work with blood on his shirt. His boss is clearly not happy with this and
starts to question him for his unprofessional behaviour. In return, David screams back at
his boss and ends up getting fired from his job.
David drives back home saying he doesn’t need the job, as he has 3 million dollars
sitting in his house. Upon reaching the house, he sees that the landscaping agent has already
arrived and seen the dead body in the box. He tells David to stay away from him and is
going to call the police. But before he could dial 911, David grabs a hammer and hits the
landscaping agent on his head.
Out of fear of losing all the money, David commits a murder. He wraps the dead body of
the landscaping agent in plastic and puts it in his basement besides all the other dead
bodies.
He does the same to the other dead body which has been in the box since he moved into this
house.
He starts to clean the blood from his face and his inner self tells him that he did the
right thing by killing the landscaping agent, or he’d have stolen his money away from
him.
David had promised to meet Mark, but since he didn’t show up, Mark gets concerned and
decides to go check on him.
David goes to sleep, and once again the security alarm goes off and he sees someone standing
inside his house. He goes downstairs with his baseball bat, and without realizing that
it’s actually his friend, David attacks Mark.
David has gone really insane and paranoid because of the money. He believes that Mark
is there to steal his money, so he ends up killing his own friend.
He puts Mark’s dead body in the basement with all the other dead bodies. He’s afraid
that more people will come to take his money, so he takes out the money from the box and
keeps it with him inside the house.
David’s insanity has gone to a whole new level, as he begins to talk to the money,
almost as if it’s his friend. He even goes to sleep by keeping the money close to him.
Next day, Jessica’s boyfriend comes to meet him. But David believes him to be another
thief who has come to his house for his money. He hits him with the baseball bat and heavily
injures him.
Jessica’s boyfriend is still alive, but David wraps him up in plastic and takes him
inside the basement.
Few hours later, Jessica arrives at his house and asks if everything is okay. She asks if
her boyfriend came to meet him, and David replies that he’s in the basement, and takes
Jessica with him to show where her boyfriend is.
After getting inside the basement, Jessica sees all the dead bodies, and her boyfriend
who’s still moving while wrapped up in plastic.
Before Jessica could even ask what it’s all about, David hits her from behind and
knocks her out. Jessica later wakes up to find herself tied up. David feels that his
own daughter is after his money. Jessica is confused about what her father is talking
about, and she begs him to let her go. She cries out begging her father to not go any
further than this.
But David is beyond a place from where he can return. The 3 million dollars have gotten
over his head, and he tells Jessica that he knows how to fix all the problems.
He leaves Jessica in the basement without untying her.
He gets ready in a suit, and takes all the money outside into his backyard. He throws
the money in the box and pours gasoline all over it. He plans to burn all the money; which
has been the root of everything bad that has happened recently.
But, he simply can’t bring himself to burn all that money. The greed has taken over him
so much that he decides to do something extreme. He gets inside the box and closes himself
in with the money he so badly loves.
This proves that the money is actually cursed. The dead body which he found when he first
moved in, is of none other than the previous owner of the house. Just like David, he too
had found the money. Slowly, the money took over his mind, and he ended up killing his
own family members, and keeping their dead bodies in the basement; just because he was
afraid they’ll take his money. In the end, he died with the money, just like how David
is doing now.
With David resting inside the box, there’s an uncertainty of what will happen to Jessica
and her boyfriend. Will they die there while waiting for help ? And will the curse of that
money move onto the new house owner ?
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