Beneath
IFC Midnight | Release Date: July 25, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
3
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJul 31, 2014
The well-crafted Beneath proves a taut, atmospheric if not especially deep thriller. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJul 24, 2014
Sparing with scares and judicious with gore, the director, Ben Ketai (working from a screenplay by Patrick J. Doody and Chris Valenziano), proves better at summoning atmosphere than developing characters. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJul 20, 2014
The film is impersonal and populated with wisps of characters who spend most of the running time wandering around in the dark yelling at one another. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweJul 24, 2014
The reductionist plot eventually forces both the protagonists and the filmmakers into a blind shaft without a productive exit strategy. Read full review
30
The DissolveMike D'AngeloJul 24, 2014
It’s hard to tell who’s who; it doesn’t really matter, because they’re all equally bland, and the threat these ciphers face is almost certainly nonexistent. It’s just about the perfect formula for tedium. Read full review
30
Village VoiceCalum MarshJul 22, 2014
Beneath exhausts the appeal of its thinly sketched characters almost as soon as they're trapped together in the mine's emergency bunker, and it isn't long before Ketai, tiring of human drama, turns instead toward the supernatural. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJul 25, 2014
When does a bad, cheap horror movie becomes something more offensively horrible? When it pegs its generic nonsense on real-life tragedy and becomes exploitation. Ben Ketai’s Beneath, not to be confused with the Larry Fessenden film of the same name from last year, is the kind of mediocrity one finds on The Movie Channel on a Saturday night and pretty easily dismisses. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedJul 23, 2014
It simply turns into another slash-and-dice horror flick, replete with enough screams for three more installments of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise. Read full review
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