fairdraconica Review of Beneath

Beneath (2007)

I really enjoyed the film overall, but the final scene ruined it for me

[7/10 · 30 July 2022]

The film has many interesting plot twists. It's way deeper than just a monster chasing and killing people. It looks good and it sounds good, too (the score is exquisite). So, I was hooked up until the very end, but the final scene where the girl kills 'the monster', i.e. Her own mother, ruins everything. The scene is absolutely ridiculous. Little girl puncturing someone with a kitchen knife like that is ridiculous as it is, but it's also quite a loss, because the sisters just found each other again, and the monster had a chance to become human again, especially after that exchange with her sister. She was quite strong, she wasn't dying, so it wasn't an euthanasia type of kill at all. Just because someone is disfigured doesn't mean they can't go back to some semblance of normal life (especially with all that money the family owns and the fact that medicine always moves forward). I didn't like that message at all.