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Summary: What Lies Beneath
Review: I found this movie to be incredibly exciting. It was both emotionally and physically stimulating. The movie started with clues in the beginning that flowed into the later scenes by explaining what was playing out in the ending. In doing this it is one of those movies where you had to pay close attention to every little detail because it is happening for a reason. It also kept my heart racing (what a cardio workout) and kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the movie. I jumped, I screamed and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie! It was an entertaining thriller with a unexpected ending. Norman-who would have guessed!
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Summary: BIG BUDGET = NOT SCARY
Review: I rarely review films on this site, but I just have to say that this is not only one of the worst attempts at a scary movie but also one of the worst movies ever made. The only way Hollywood could make a scary movie is if they filmed the private lives of it's stars. "What Lies Beneath" is nothing but a boring and pathetic shoplifter of far better movies. Try the 70s classic "Let's Scare Jessica To Death" or "Ghost Story"...the original films that this ... stole from instead. ..., an episode of "American Idol" is far scarier. By the way, what HAPPENED to Harrison Ford??
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Summary: NICE MOVIE AND GOOD WORK FROM ROBERT ZEMECKIS
Review: In these year this movie one of the best horror films the cast who are Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer are good and with GOOD WORK FROM ROBERT ZEMECKIS who make no mistake , About the story so nice i like it with Very Scary i think you should definitely buy this movie ,
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Summary: A Tour de Force for Zemeckis
Review: Make no mistake - this is Robert Zemeckis' movie. You know the story: he made this as a lark while he was waiting for Tom Hanks to lose enough weight to shoot the second half of "Cast Away". But, what he came up with here is really a barn burner and a nice surprise for thriller buffs. Zemeckis has always been a camera freak, and this film lets him go a little bit nuts. So much so that the final half-hour of the movie contains several of the most amazing camera shots you've EVER seen; the laws of physics are constantly in question (SPOILER GUARD: Don't look at the "making of" stuff until after you've seen the movie). All in all, a very satisfying, intelligent, somewhat subtle (until the third act) thriller, and a very entertaining project throughout.
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Summary: This movie is just plane SCARY!
Review: What lies beneath is a tense, twisting, scary ride with nonstop suspense. The people who star in this movie are Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. They play a happily married couple who think they have the perfect marriage when Michelle starts hearing voices and starts seeing things in her house. She tells her husband who thinks its her imagination. But then she starts guessing the story to what she think happened to the person she sees. Then Ford realises that she has guessed to what happened to her and he must stop her before she can tell anyone. This movie is GUARANTEED to keep you on the edge of your seat! It is rated PG-13 for Terror/Violence Sexuality And some language. I give it 5 stars and you will not be dissapointed. Have fun and enjoy!
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Summary: Very Scary
Review: The first time I saw What Lies Beneath, I was striken with horror. ... The wife was very realistic in acting like she was seeing ghosts. I think any person who loves suspense, should definitely buy this movie.
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Summary: an excellent film of sensory manipulation
Review: This is cinema at its best; it takes possession of the whole
body, turning it into the sensory being. First, it establishes
a necessary identification with Pfeiffer's quest, the viewer
is trapped in the vicissitudes of her vision; but at the same
time, and with a wonderful paradox, the movie makes the viewer identify with the ghost as well. The position that the movie puts us, the viewers, in is this doubleness; the immediacy of
Pfeiffer's sensations and the anticipated, delayed presence of the being that lurks underneath. By being behind Pfeiffer as she
goes in and out of the rooms of the house, the camera places us in the position of the intermediary; the viewer is the third one, that sees and feels with Pfeiffer, but also is much closer and cognizant of the ghostly presence. And all this because of the camera that sways us between Pfeiffer and the space around her, the camera that is both the masterful instrument of feeling and knowing.
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Summary: GOOD WORK FROM ROBERT ZEMECKIS.
Review: MICHELLE PFEIFFER IS 100% CONVINCING AS AN ANXIETY STRICKEN WOMAN, WHO'S DAUGHTER JUST LEFT FOR COLLEGE. WITH A CAREER BUSY HUSBAND (HARRISON FORD), SHE SPENDS ALOT OF TIME AT HOME ALONE. BUT IS SHE REALLY ALONE? STRANGE EVENTS TAKE PLACE, AND SHE STARTS TO BELIEVE THERE IS A GHOST THAT IS TRYING TO TELL HER SOMETHING. I THINK THE TITLE WORKS TWO WAYS. WHAT LIES (AS IN 'NOT THE TRUTH') AND WHAT LIES (AS IN 'WHAT LURKS' BENEATH). AT ANY RATE "WHAT LIES BENEATH" IS A SUPERIOR TRILLER. THAT IS WELL WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION.
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Summary: "A well-made, if not exactly well-exectued thriller."
Review: I'll start off by saying that I like this movie, and enjoy it very much. There are plenty of genuine thrills and shocks, but that's only in the movie's second half. The first act is just a bunch of red-herrings, with plot points that lead nowhere and a bevy of rather generic "suspense movie" touches. But this movie's makers must of been so wrapped up in giving tip-offs to Alfred Hitchcock, they over-stepppped their bounderies. The hints become so obvious they almost spoil the movie in terms of shocks, as it becomes ridiculously predictable. An obvious similarity in the story, almost a rip-off, is to Hitchcock's "Rear WIndow", but the movie also shares elements with many other Hitch movies--"Suspicion" and "Vertigo" come to mind. The movie's music score also seems almost overly "Psycho" influenced, not to mention the use of bathtubs, as it becomes somewhat apparent that the filmmakers are trying to do for them what the Hitchcock classic did for showers. But the pay-off is the movie's climax, with some really well-executed suspense set-pieces and the use of digital technology makes for some interesting visuals. Michelle Pfeiffer is luminous as the confused, emotionally perplexed lead charadcter, and carries the film with remarkable ease. Harrison Ford, while hardly out-staging Pfeiffer, is good in a role different from his usual, good-guy, every-man characters, much like James Stewart's departure with "Vertigo". Stylish, well-acted, and with outstanding direction, but the plot never balances between psychological thrills and stark supernatural horror, and the mechanics are visible. Enjoyable overall, but it's not go to reinvent the genre. Better than say, "The Haunting", but if your expecting another "The Sixth Sense", look elsewhere.
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Summary: Surprisingly conventional thriller - - still entertaining.
Review: The movie starts out fairly "realistically" employing simply camera techniques and ends up being a silly exercise in the cheap use of computer ghost imagery.I was surprised to find out that this film was directed by Zemeckis. Considering how well crafted and inventive his other films such as Forrest Gump and Castaway were, this film resorts to corny special effects and hackneyed suspense techniques. This film has been compared to Hitchcocks films. The difference however is that Hitchcock will employ brilliant camera techniques and timing and music -- NOT cop-out techniques of artificial CGI to paste in ghost images. Furthermore Harrison Ford's character development is simply inconsistent and rather unbelievable. This is a well done "made-for-tv" movie.
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