Buried Above Ground

Quiet, withdrawn, a shadow in the halls of his college campus, Isaac, first year student, begins to unravel when a haunting voice from the past pierces his solitude. The voice pleads for help, whispering a cryptic promise: "help me, and you help yourself." As the boundary between reality and imagination blurs, Isaac is pulled into a psychological reckoning that forces him to confront the voice;s origin and his own suffering.Buried Above Ground is an emotionally intense psychological drama / atmospheric thriller. Its core audience are 18 to 34, with crossover appeal to 35–45 arthouse thriller viewers. The demographics are college students / young adults, indie film audiences, fans of emotionally driven psychological dramas, viewers drawn to loneliness, identity, trauma, alienation, and coming-of-age themes with a vibe of moody, introspective, atmospheric, emotionally raw, lonely, haunting, poetic. The strongest comps are: Aftersun; Donnie Darko; Manchester by the Sea; All of Us Strangers and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The write ups would be: "If you like atmospheric psychological dramas with the emotional depth of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and the mystery of Donnie Darko, you’ll love Buried Above Ground."