Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

lewishamilton-35961 Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfieffer are a couple in a beautiful house haunted by a ghost. Bob Zemeckis is a great director but this is one of his lesser efforts. There is nothing really wrong with the film except looking at the marquee names one would have expected more. It has ghosts, jump scares and spooky music- even great locations but it is better suited as a film made by a first time director not the guy who made Back to the future or Contact. Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfieffer add allure to the star cast but you can clearly see by their motions they are pondering on when the cheque will clear.

zkonedog The first time I watched "What Lies Beneath", I was completely blown away by its engaging, mysterious plot and well-acted characters. Even after repeated viewings, I can still enjoy the creepy atmosphere and well-crafted narrative.For a basic plot summary, this movies sees Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Norman (Harrison Ford) Spencer send their only daughter off to college. Now in an "empty nest", Claire begins to hear voices, sense a presence, and witnesses many strange things happening around the house and with the neighbors. Is she going a bit loopy...or is something really going on?I am a huge fan of mysteries, and this film is most definitely full of that! Robert Zemeckis is a master director, so he knows exactly how to craft a movie with the right kind of pacing to fully suck the viewer into the lives of Claire and Norman. Not until the final few minutes of the movie do you know exactly what is going on. I would like to say more, but to do so would go into spoiler territory, and this is one of those movies where you don't want to be spoiled!"What Lies Beneath" is (admittedly, by the producers) a throwback to Hitchcock's "Psycho". The mood, the music, the usage of a bathtub (vs. a show), and even some names are taken from that great thriller.I have a "favorite movies" list on Facebook, and this one is worthy of induction. If you are a fan of mystery/thrillers and somehow haven't already seen this, you are in for a real treat!

Davis P What lies beneath really does make the best out of the material it's given. Michelle Pfeiffer is just awesome in her starring role! I mean she just fits the role so well and really rocks it! And Harrison Ford is great here, he is determined, dramatic, and even scary at times. The suspense and tense energy that runs rampant thought what lies beneath is incredible, it's so creepy and unwatchable at times. Just the music itself will creep underneath your skin. Robert Zemeckis has done it again, he successfully made an entertaining, well acted and well written creepy thriller. Also Pfeiffer and Ford do have good on screen chemistry together, they just work and click during a scene, especially an intimate one. The visuals are great here, and the film is directed and shot very well, great to look at. The script is well written with intelligent dialogue between the main characters. The ending is very satisfying, I liked it, it is creepy, smart, and bone chilling. It's not exactly a big twist, but just a little one. You may see it coming, then again you may not, depends on the viewer. I give what lies beneath an 8/10.

Robert J. Maxwell Not much needs to be said about this over-familiar story of a woman harassed by ghosts in her new lakeside house except that the performances are quite good and the budget greater than a much better horror story like "Carnival of Souls." Michelle Pfeiffer is beautiful, as always, but the role itself is written strictly by the numbers. She's the helpless victim that no one believes, from any Lifetime Movie Network film of your choice. I don't know why they hired Harrison Ford to be the stereotypical husband. It must have cost them a good deal. But, like other husbands in these flicks, he's a workaholic, skeptical, down-to-earth, and puzzled by Pfeiffer's claims. (He sends her to a shrink.) What a waste of money. Any one of dozens of professional B-level Canadian men could have done the job as well.But why go on? You've seen every second of it before, in one or another film about haunted women in haunted houses. There has to be a best friend who half-believes too, and who tries to help. They usually die. I didn't sit around long enough to see if Diana Scarwid, a fine actress, dies.The musical score borrows heavily from two sources: "Psycho" and "The Shining." There is a loud WHOOSH or a WHAM and a piping shriek from Pfeiffer whenever a gust brushes through the shrubbery or the door slowly and ominously creaks open. (The family dog comes in.) The movie never misses a shot, no matter how cheap the thrill.Pfui.