Beneath
Chiller Films | Release Date: July 16, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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63
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsJul 18, 2013
Ultimately, Beneath is better than your average Roger Corman clone because it is more serious than trivial. Read full review
60
Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonJul 16, 2013
Beneath may be an earnest goof, but any intended irony is so spiked with rainy-day-matinee movie love that the result is an oddly guileless horror exercise, unscary but rather adorable. Read full review
60
Time OutSam AdamsJul 16, 2013
Although Fessenden does fine work shooting his equivalent of Lifeboat, the movie’s surface is often rough. Yet the title doesn’t just refer to what lurks in the lake’s still water. It’s a guide to where Beneath’s substance lies, the acid heart inside its plastic chest. Read full review
50
The DissolveNoel MurrayJul 16, 2013
As routine and undercooked as Beneath’s one-wet-corpse-after-another plot is, the movie is still breathtakingly beautiful at times, with compositions and color tones that resemble a high-class fashion-magazine layout circa 1965. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezJul 4, 2013
Its stance toward every dipshit slasher and creature-horror flick that's come before it never feels less than casually hostile. Read full review
40
VarietyScott FoundasJul 18, 2013
That sly toying with audience sympathies is, alas, all that’s notable about this otherwise poverty-row quickie produced for the Chiller cable network. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJul 12, 2013
Beneath gets capsized as much by its knuckleheaded script as by its somewhat risible giant flesh-eating fish. Read full review
20
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerJul 15, 2013
Though the young actors...are appealing enough, you keep waiting for a boatful of humor to come along and rescue them. The whole film is a campy put-on, right? Apparently not. Read full review
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