2000 Directed by Robert Zemeckis
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.
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Drink every time there's a mirror/reflection, a window, or a picture or picture frame.
There was never a question as to whether or not I would love a horror movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford, the only question was how much and it turns out that it’s quite a lot! I was borderline addicted to this movie when it first came out because I just love a supernatural whodunnit, but also Michelle. I mean, how does that bone structure even exist?! She is so shockingly beautiful and she plays such a timid character in this movie and I had the biggest gay crush on her you could imagine. As for Harrison Ford, well woof obviously. That man’s been making my dick tingle since The Temple of Doom which ironically is sometimes what I also call…
Where are my people who love this movie like I do? I first saw this at a sleepover when I was maybe 13 or 14. I'd had a very sheltered childhood up until that point (except for when I could make it to my grandma's house to watch Nickelodeon) and I had just started to get really restless/angsty around that time. I didn't have access to horror films through cable or movie rentals like other people my age--my mother's suffocating over-protection prevented me from having much of anything to myself (once she made me give an Anne Rice book I'd borrowed from a friend back when I was only 1/3rd of the way through it, but I digress). But sleepovers…
the ultimate gaslighting ghost movie. robert zemeckis' adult horror-thriller is a totally watchable spook story that's finely directed and contains some great special effects that still hold up to this day. pfeiffer is the main reason to watch this though, she absolutely owns this role and outshines ford who sadly doesn't really come alive until the final act. my main gripe with What Lies Beneath is that with it's many twists and turns, you can totally see the final outcome coming a mile away. like i honestly don't know how you wouldn't see this in the theatre back in 2000 and not totally guess the ending. they even drop a huge hint in a dinner scene earlier in the movie!!! keep an ear out for the dialogue an eye out for the subtitles on that one.
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Action!: The Rise and Fall (?) Of Robert Zemeckis
Almost two years ago, I reviewed this movie. I had my doubts whether to watch it or not because the first time I saw it, it wasn't exactly one of my favorite films.
And well, as you can see from my rating, this movie didn't hold up so well. Silverstri's music is still great. Don Burgess' cinematography is still very solid. Personally I like the way Burgess veers into surreal territory and makes things look very dreamy. My favorite is the exterior shot of Michelle standing by the lake. As for Michelle, the performances are still good, competent and the transformation of one of the characters was well done.
Ultimately, I…
Haven’t watched this supernatural whodunnit adult terror jam since it hit the video store... and I definitely remember digging this back then for mixing it up during that teen infested genre era. Couldn’t hurt to be trimmed by about twenty minutes, but I gotta hand it to Zemeckis for kicking things up by throwing in ghost shit into a movie I’m sure many people at the time scoffed at once supernatural elements turned up.
Love that tense last act, that aces score, and holy cow what perfect pair of actors to toss into a Zemeckis Hitchcock movie—especially Pfeiffer <3.
What Lies Beneath. 2000. Directed Robert Zemeckis.
Robert Zemeckis’s What Lies Beneath is a neo/noir that tips its hat to Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Clark Gregg, who cleverly worked in the best bits of a Hitchcock thriller. Utilizing the talent of Harrison Ford (Norman Spencer) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Claire Spencer), Zemeckis built some back of the neck hair raising moments. The cinematographer Don Burgess focused on surfaces (mirrors, water, windows, floors, etc) to move the audience toward thinking that everything is not as it seems. There is a big red herring thrown in at the beginning to make us think along one path. However, there are many paths of logic in this What Lies Beneath but, one will not be able to make a conclusion until the end. Zemeckis made a timeless thriller. The score by Alan Silverstri keeps the audience on the edge of the seat. If Hitchcock were alive, he would congratulate him.
Robert Zemeckis's homage to Hitchcock, "What Lies Beneath," is a tension-filled chiller complete with misdirection and mise-en-scene that might make the master proud. Zemeckis combines supernaturally tinged mystery and murder for a horror film that is light on jolts but heavy on atmosphere and icy dread. It is a well-cast and well-made thriller that easily engrosses.
Revolving around a professor and his musician wife who become embroiled in a mystery with supernatural connections, "What Lies Beneath" tells a story that is part ghost tale and part tale of madness. The narrative unfolds slowly with sophisticated beats and a premium on a heavy tone of dread. As early plot points reveal their importance, or lackthereof, to the overall narrative, some of…
Suffering from Empty Nest Syndrome, Claire Spencer starts to hear voices and see things at her lakeside Vermont house. Are they real or is she slowly losing her mind?
In my opinion, "What Lies Beneath" finds Robert Zemeckis at the height of his creative powers and is the apotheosis of his directorial virtuosity. Here he takes a rather unexceptional ghost story script and makes out of it one hell of an entertaining thriller. It's scary, atmospheric, and has enough twists to keep the viewer guessing, but without making suspension of disbelief challenging. The jump scares are few, and that greatly increases their effectiveness. In this case they aren't there just to pad the running time, they mean something. The film…
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The cheapest 100 million dollar film ever made
Zemeckis has reached a new low here, filmmaking wise at least. It doesn’t contain any content that will be found offensive, but it’s Hitchcockian to a fault, and ends up as something irreversibly bland as a result. The best way I can describe this film is as an incoherent hodgepodge of all the Hitchcock classics: Rear Window, Psycho, Rebecca, Vertigo, to the point where it starts to feel like a parody. Pfeiffer’s overacting borders on $5,000 budget student found footage horror movie level of bad, and was completely irritating to sit through for an entire two hours. Harrison Ford is just flat in this, as he is in most of his…
Without a doubt this is the Hollywood Lifetime movie fanfare. It seems strange that Robert Zemeckis would make a film like this considering his general approach is somewhere in everyday life protrayals mixed with a soft touch of adventure or whimsy. This is a downright depressing film. Even the most melancholic aspects of his other films have the lightest grief, a male protagonist my-wife-left-me kind of melodrama. What Lies Beneath is an old school psychological thriller that is clearly from the aughts tonally: the hues, stuck between two eras, bad CGI details, Michelle's insanely waif body. At times I am not even sure who this movie was made for -- has the slow burn of modern elevated horror without the…
