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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsUltimately, Beneath is better than your average Roger Corman clone because it is more serious than trivial.
- 60Time OutTime OutAlthough 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.
- 60Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonBeneath 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.
- 50Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezIts stance toward every dipshit slasher and creature-horror flick that's come before it never feels less than casually hostile.
- 50The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayAs 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.
- 40VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasThat sly toying with audience sympathies is, alas, all that’s notable about this otherwise poverty-row quickie produced for the Chiller cable network.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyBeneath gets capsized as much by its knuckleheaded script as by its somewhat risible giant flesh-eating fish.
- 20The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThough 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.