Beneath the Darkness
Image Entertainment | Release Date: January 6, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
22
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
1
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
40
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJan 5, 2012
Beneath the Darkness has nada on Don Coscarelli's epic "Phantasm" saga or, for that matter, Norman Bates' clear-eyed if psychotic shenanigans. It's strictly a guilty pleasure. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenJan 6, 2012
Yet that deeply strange and agitated performance by Quaid is the only thing that makes the film remotely bearable. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJan 6, 2012
A teens-in-trouble thriller with barely enough momentum to make it to the end credits. Performances and script are made-for-cable grade. Read full review
30
VarietyJohn AndersonJan 6, 2012
A malformed, would-be horror shocker with a deliriously deranged performance by Dennis Quaid, who unfortunately seems to be the only one onboard who thinks he's in a comedy. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerJan 5, 2012
Someone involved with Beneath the Darkness has either watched too many horror movies or not enough. There is not an original thought in this story, written by Bruce Wilkinson, or in the way it is directed by Martin Guigui. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedJan 10, 2012
You anticipate every scene before it happens and figure out every secret before it's revealed. Read full review
25
New York PostLou LumenickJan 6, 2012
It's sad to see Quaid in sloppily directed (by Martin Guigui) dreck like Beneath the Darkness less than a decade after the performance of his career as a closeted married man in "Far From Heaven.'' Read full review
25
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerJan 1, 2012
Overly expository dialogue abounds throughout Martin Guigui's movie, as do questionable filmmaking choices and plenty of stupidly unconvincing actions taken on the part of the film's characters. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJan 5, 2012
A dumb thriller starring Dennis Quaid as a weirdo mortician taunted by high school kids into revealing what he did with his wife and her lover years before - and look at the movies it rips off... Read full review
20
Village VoiceTim GriersonJan 3, 2012
Unfortunately for Quaid, director Martin Guigui's pathetic thriller doesn't even have the pulse-pounding excitement of a second-tier Scooby-Doo mystery. Read full review
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