H.P.K.:
As for What Lies Beneath....
Nice shwank directing, but that's about all it's got going for it. It rips off every former scary suspense thriller movie known to man. The Shining, Rear Window, Psycho, every movie that ever had a ghost appearing in the bathroom (there's got to be hundreds of them, what's with ghosts and nudity?)... It's got plot padding disguised as plot twists. A murdering neighbour who happily isn't a murderer half way through the movie and then is never seen again no matter how many times his neighbours scream and break crap. Plus, as an added bonus, it's got giant leaps of faith in plot, e.g...
- What do you need to become a vessel of another spirit? No former knowledge of posession that's for sure. Just a library card and something the dead person owned. Easy as that.
- If your husband is lying electrocuted in the bath with the shower running and a hairdryer in it, check that it was actually turned on when it fell in and the fuse popped. If it isn't, find out why he's, rather poorly, faking his own electrocution. If it is, well ask him what the hell he was doing with the hairdryer on and the shower running... I think the former would be easier to answer than the latter... Correct me if im wrong, but if a hairdryer isn't running, throwing it in the bath will do nothing more than break the hairdryer right?
Altogether, it wasn't that bad... But it certainly wasn't good... Plus way too many shots of shirtless Harrison for my liking.
Rating: HATE!
Parkesy:
I half-saw What Lies Beneath on a plane, and I could have told you that it sucked. When I think this movie, I think mish-mash.
H.P.K.:
Mish-mash perfectly sums it up... Actually if it was just the first half of the movie you saw, you'd think it was even more mish-mashy after the second half.
Parkesy:
From what I remember I was like ‘oh it’s a murder movie’ then ‘hey where’s that ghost come from?’, ‘ok there’s killers again’.
H.P.K:
Yeah well, like I said that murderer never appears again. Turns out the ghost is of her husbands former lover that of course her husband killed, so then the husband goes after the wife. All standard stuff.
The most interesting thing I got out of this movie was asking myself, what would it take for me to convince Mrs H.P.K. that I was in contact with 'the other side'? I haven't got an answer to that though.