What Lies Below shows Liberty, a socially awkward 16-year-old, returns from two months at camp to a blindsided introduction of her mother’s fiancé, John Smith, whose charm, intelligence, and beauty paint the picture of a man too perfect to be human.
“What Lies Below” is a kind of a flick that could end up being a total trash filled with so-bad-it-hurts CGI and nonsense screenplay. You know, like the most of Syfy made-for-TV creature features. But this one doesn’t deserve all the rage. Yes, the dialogues are pretty basic and bland but it doesn’t kill the creepy vibe going throughout the whole film length.
The acting is decent – Ema Horvath is good as an estranged daughter and Mena Suvari finally stars in a horror movie that is not a garbage (although it’s still too hard to forgive her for Carrie 2 and Don’t Blink).
The best part of the movie is its visuals and lore. Lovecraft-esque fear of chtonic entities, hypnotic enigmatic lights coming out of nowhere and minimalistic synth soundtrack are making “What Lies Below” a thrilling eye-candy which is pretty much enough for a one-off horror movie.
What Lies Below doesn’t reinvent the genre or offers any real plot twist (I mean, we all know John is going to be a bad guy, and effective Trey Tucker’s performance convinced us right after we see him) but definitely worth a watch for its atmosphere and its actors that probably did better that the script could offer them.
Creepy, low budget movie that was fun to watch. It figures, if What Lies Below seems to good to be true it probably is. LOL The guy is handsome, charming, intelligent in the beginning, then it got super GROSS and creepy. Wish they had the budget for better creature FX. Overall, not gonna win an Oscar, but it’s a fun and bizarre popcorn movie for people that don’t wanna see BUCKETS of Blood and body parts flying around the screen for 90+ minutes.
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