SummaryWhen a group of young friends commemorating their high school graduation take a trip to the remote Black Lake, their celebration turns into a nightmare with the sudden appearance of a bloodthirsty, underwater predator. Stuck in a leaking boat with no oars, the teens face the ultimate test of friendship and sacrifice during a terror-stricken fight... Read More
Directed By:Larry Fessenden
Written By:Tony Daniel, Brian Smith
Beneath
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40
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5.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Jul 18, 2013
63
Ultimately, Beneath is better than your average Roger Corman clone because it is more serious than trivial.
Jul 16, 2013
60
Beneath may be an earnest goof, but any intended irony is so spiked with rainy-day-matinee movie love that the result is an oddly guileless horror exercise, unscary but rather adorable.
User score
Mixed or Average
55% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
18% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
27% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Jul 25, 2013
9
Beneath is a very effective horror movie that's more than just a simple scary ride. Beneath works on multiple levels... Although set on a lake with a monster in the water, at its core, the movie is really about life in high school (or at the office). The biggest threat our characters face is each other, rather than the monster. The use of a practical monster, rather than a cgi creation, adds to the gritty realism. The young, attractive cast plays the movie with necessary intenseness, and the cinematography is beautiful Ultimately, Beneath is a scary, funny and smart movie. My friends and I all enjoyed it. Definitely worth checking out!
Jul 25, 2013
8
Beneath follows a group of teenagers who show their true colors when trapped in the water. Nobody does indie horror better than Larry Fessenden. I liked The Last Winter better but enjoyed this.
Jul 16, 2013
60
Although Fessenden does fine work shooting his equivalent of Lifeboat, the movie’s surface is often rough. Yet the title doesn’t just refer to what lurks in the lake’s still water. It’s a guide to where Beneath’s substance lies, the acid heart inside its plastic chest.
Jul 4, 2013
50
Its stance toward every dipshit slasher and creature-horror flick that's come before it never feels less than casually hostile.
Jul 18, 2013
40
That sly toying with audience sympathies is, alas, all that’s notable about this otherwise poverty-row quickie produced for the Chiller cable network.
Jul 12, 2013
30
Beneath gets capsized as much by its knuckleheaded script as by its somewhat risible giant flesh-eating fish.
Jul 15, 2013
20
Though the young actors...are appealing enough, you keep waiting for a boatful of humor to come along and rescue them. The whole film is a campy put-on, right? Apparently not.
Jul 25, 2013
7
Pretty good psycho horror flick. This movie is less about terror beneath the water than terror above the water. The real evil is the group "friends" on the boat. Some scary moments, but actually quite satisfying as the monster and the friends' strained relationships take their toll. The monster could look more real, though. Good music. Nice to see the wheel chair dude in Breaking Bad actually speak. He's pretty damn creepy.
Jul 25, 2013
7
A fun horror movie. It doesn't rely on CGI monsters and has a real "Lord of the Flies" vibe. Plus the actors make you believe lines that could've fallen flat.
Feb 21, 2023
3
no nudity, not much violence
the fish is adorable not quite a so bad it's good flick, unfortunately
Apr 18, 2014
3
kind of the opposite of the other movie I watched today, I liked this one a lot less than I expected. Its gotten mixed reviews mostly on the good side Id say. Unfortunately it does not deserve the praise. What I did respect about the movie was the way the creature looked. It looked like they mostly used practical effects mixed with a little bit of cgi. This in my opinion was a great move on part of the directors. Using practical effects is almost a must for me. There has been a flood of cgi filled creature features and most of the time as soon as the crappy digitally animated creature shows up it pulls me right out of the movie. The creature in this movie looked great, Unfortunately the movie has nothing else going for it, The whole movie takes place around a group of teenagers stranded on a small boat. They make incredibly bad and unbelievable decisions that just piss you off and just over half way through I couldn't wait for this movie to end. It would have been nice to see them do something special with this cool creature and when it finds its first victim I thought things were looking up but they definitely went down from there.
Apr 6, 2021
0
What a load of junk , bad acting, bad plot, bad script, bad everything !!! Avoid at all costs !!!
Production Company:
- Chiller Films
- Glass Eye Pix
Release Date:Jul 16, 2013
Duration:1 h 30 m
Tagline:They're only friends on the surface.
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