Beneath You or I

Christy Wescot and sister Vanessa Locke share a special bound, but when a car accident happens in Edgemont, Montana these sisters lose touch. Vanessa barely survives the accident and suffers horrible burns while sister Christy is sent to a psychiatric ward to deal with the trauma of the accident. Unable to recover from her wounds Vanessa dies and Christy, while experiencing bi-polar disorder believes there is more to Vanessa's death than people are telling (Internet).

Rating: Restricted for some violence and disturbing images.

Release Date: August 7, 2007

Starring: Nora Zehetner, Brenna O'Brien, Carly Pope, Don S. Davis, Matthew Settle, Gabrielle Rose, and Amy Locke.

Director: Dagen Merrill.

Writers: Kevin Buke, and Dagen Merrill.

This so-called horror, thriller film takes an awful long time to get going and once "Beneath," starts to develop some type of a story it is too late to keep anyone's attention. Little to no action develops in the first half of the film and the lead actress (Nora Zehetner) looks like she might curl up in a ball and die at any moment from lack of nourishment. Boredom is the main tone of the film and this theme is driven home with the poor acting of several of the characters. Few if any expressions of remorse, guilt, fear or anything are show on the character's faces and this film barely fits into the drama genre (family genre might be better).

Poor acting, a weak script and little to no excitement make this film a must-not-see unless under pain of torture, and even then hold out as long as possible! To any scriptwriters out there please use a solid hook initially, and create some scares throughout the film to make a movie enjoyable and interesting for viewers to watch. The only positive to this film is that "Beneath," does pick up the pace in the final third of the film, but this climactic ending is not enough to save this yawnfest.

Great editing here because this trailer makes "Beneath," look a whole lot better than the film actually is:



Sources:

Beneath at IMDB

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