What Lies Beneath (2000)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 130m
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Miranda Otto, James Remar
Synopsis:
Recovering from a near-fatal car accident, the wife of a successful geneticist is plagued by supernatural events in her home that she attributes to the disappearance of her neighbour's overwrought wife.
Review:
A well-mounted thriller of the uncanny that effectively lays a series of red herrings before finally showing its hand. This manipulative streak, and the surprise assailant's time-honoured indestructibility (cf. Fatal Attraction, Sleeping with the Enemy, The Hand that Rocked the Cradle), eventually prove the film's undoing as drama, however. On the credit side, it takes its time, is relatively free of deafening sound effects and looks great in the high-gloss manner of this director.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 130m
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Miranda Otto, James Remar
Synopsis:
Recovering from a near-fatal car accident, the wife of a successful geneticist is plagued by supernatural events in her home that she attributes to the disappearance of her neighbour's overwrought wife.
Review:
A well-mounted thriller of the uncanny that effectively lays a series of red herrings before finally showing its hand. This manipulative streak, and the surprise assailant's time-honoured indestructibility (cf. Fatal Attraction, Sleeping with the Enemy, The Hand that Rocked the Cradle), eventually prove the film's undoing as drama, however. On the credit side, it takes its time, is relatively free of deafening sound effects and looks great in the high-gloss manner of this director.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 130m
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Miranda Otto, James Remar
Synopsis:
Recovering from a near-fatal car accident, the wife of a successful geneticist is plagued by supernatural events in her home that she attributes to the disappearance of her neighbour's overwrought wife.
Review:
A well-mounted thriller of the uncanny that effectively lays a series of red herrings before finally showing its hand. This manipulative streak, and the surprise assailant's time-honoured indestructibility (cf. Fatal Attraction, Sleeping with the Enemy, The Hand that Rocked the Cradle), eventually prove the film's undoing as drama, however. On the credit side, it takes its time, is relatively free of deafening sound effects and looks great in the high-gloss manner of this director.