Rating: Summary: The Most Frightening and Intense Horror Film Ever! Review: This film is absolutely fantastic. It actually frightened me unlike The Sixth Sense or The Haunting. Just the way it was set up. The sets, the music, and the acting were terrific. The music reminded me of something from an Alfred Hitchcock film. The music, for instense, keeps going and going, so it stays with you the entire movie. Robert Zemeckis is brilliant. I couldn't believe it when I found out that he is the same director that did Forest Gump and Back to the Future. Just take the house for example. In the daylight, it looks like a perfect dream house. But give it the right lighting and shoot it from the right angle and you can make it appear montsterous or ghastly, scary even. This is a truly terrorfying film. Slow at times, but at least they didn't over do it. The plot twists and and horrorfying reality of it all are what make What Lies Beneath a great film. What Lies Beneath is just one of those classic horror thrillers that prove that you really don't need over done special effects, blood, and gore to make a great horror film.
Rating: Summary: A family film! Review: Not only was this a great scary & suspensful film with fabulous acting by Ford & Pfeiffer, but it got the message across without any X-rated sex, language or violence. What a novel idea, a summer film my whole family can enjoy TOGETHER! Very well done!
Rating: Summary: Quite watchable, especially between one's fingers Review: This tense, frightening tale mires us in the world of a sensitive Vermont housewife experiencing boredom, empty nest syndrome, and your classic, restless visitation from Hell. Pfeiffer is fragile and believable as the rose-tending, solitaire-playing Claire Spencer, who may or may not be going mad; Ford is ittermittently convincing as Norman, the workaholic husband, too busy trying to escape his father's shadow to humor his wife's claims of a ghost reflected in...the bath? (It's scarier than it sounds actually, and reflection-imagery plays an interesting role in the movie overall). The script suffers occasionally from cheap soap opera tactics, like making awkward, one-sentence summations of the past to bring the audience up to date. The foreshadowing is also a little blunt--I get the impression that the picture was edited quickly, if not excessively (the movie is still fairly long). While there's nothing truly ground-breaking about this thriller, Pfeiffer is enjoyable as a woman obsessed, the setting is beautiful, and I actually shrieked in terror at least once during the 10 o' clock showing. Thankfully, I certainly wasn't the only one.
Rating: Summary: UBELEIVABLY BORING Review: This movie is very, very dull. The only good points are Harrison Ford and Michelle Pheifer's performances. Only see this if you are a major league fan of one of the actors.
Rating: Summary: One of the best scary movies I have ever seen! Review: This movie had to be the scariest movie that I have ever seen in my entire life! It was almost unbearably tense, and I loved it! The end was a total surprise to me! I cannot believe how good Robert Zemekis' direction was! It was a wonderfully scary movie, and I definitly will see it again! *NOT FOR SMALL CHILDREN*
Rating: Summary: This was a very eerie movie. Review: "What Lies Beneath" was a great movie. I have to admit, I was not expecting for this movie to be that great, due to its PG-13 rating. I figured that it would have needed an R rating to be truly scary. However, I was wrong; I spent a lot of time covering my eyes. Michelle Pfeiffer plays a woman named Claire, who has been experiencing hauntings in her home, mainly while her husband, Norman, played by Harrison Ford, is at work. While trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious hauntings, Claire enlists the help of her husband, friend, shrink, others, as well as a Ouija board. Soon, Claire has flashbacks about a certain "dilemma" from the previous year. The viewer will not be bored as Claire gradually learns who the ghost is.
Rating: Summary: One of the scariest movies I've seen Review: After this movie was over I was just extremely tense. It was extremely suspensful throughout the whole movie, and when you thought it was over, it would scare you again. It was very entertaining this way, but I really don't like these kinds of movies. Regardless, the acting was very well done, particularly the last three quarters of the movie. I wont give away the story, but you will definetly be surprised many times during this movie. If you like to get scared, definetly go see this.
Rating: Summary: Scary, suspenseful, and creepy..... Review: This was a great ghost story, a bit slow at times, but a thrill ride overall...many Hitchcockian homages add to the tension, as does the wild and unbearably suspenseful and very scary climax...this was a wondeful and chilling surprise....
Rating: Summary: Good, dragged a little, but an exceptional ENDING Review: First off---Tom Hanks new movie is trailered on here CASTAWAY so it gets 1 star for that Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer are wonderful in this new film by ZEMECKIS (Forrest Gump, Contact, Back to the Future). It has some THRILLS and CLOSE-CALLS to scare you while delivering one of the best endings to a movie I've seen in a while. This movie drags in the first 20 minutes but picks up from their and doesn't let you go till the end. THE STORY: Harrison Ford and Michelle are married and their young daughter just left the house for college. New neighbors next door are strange and STRANGE things happen to Pfeiffer's character, while Ford's doesn't believe her and wants her to seek help. ALL THE STRANGE things add up to a surprise ending and great finishing sequence. IT WILL SCARE you and SHOCK you. Check it out....SO FAR GREAT SUMMER FLIKS OF 2000 are: GLADIATOR, PATRIOT, X-men, ME Myself IRene, Perfect Storm, and THIS ONE....later
Rating: Summary: **What Lies Beneath - Suspenseful Indeed** Review: The film, 'What Lies Beneath' was exceptionally done. It was a very long film though. However, it really had to be that length. The acting was good, yet the storyline was pretty fictionized. Yes, I believe in ghostly spirits, but I don't think they really can 'hurt' or take a body of another. All in all, the film and acting was good.
This movie kept me on the endge of my seat; Just like 'Sixth Sense.' See this movie and be ready for some exitement. Get ready to be scared...
Reason for me giving it only 4-stars was because of the fiction. I thought it was too fictional. Other then that, the movie was good. The ending was mind boggling! SEE THIS MOVIE!
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