Director:
Ben KetaiCámara:
Timothy A. BurtonMúsica:
Andres BoultonReparto:
Brent Briscoe, Jeff Fahey, Joey Kern, Mark L. Young, Kelly Noonan, Eric Etebari, Kurt Caceres, David Shackelford, Rene Rivera, Lawrence MoranSinopsis(1)
A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events. (IFC Midnight)
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Beneath is the best claustrophobic survival film in years. It is decently gory, perfectly shot with amazingly creepy settings, a hellishly cramped atmosphere that will make it hard to breathe like the miners. There were two moments when I was so scared I fell out of bed and bumped my right arm, and it’s all based on true events. The last time I had a similar heart attack and uncomfortable feeling after watching a film was with Drag Me to Hell. The combination of scares and gore scenes works great, too bad no one figured it out sooner.
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A strong aspect of the film Beneath is that it wisely avoids using a shaky handheld camera, which is a good thing because there has been too much of that lately. Moreover, it also makes effective use of dark settings. But the jump scares are sometimes too predictable - yet it is true that purely unexpected ones are rarely pulled off well, and there are very few of them. Beneath probably won't blow you away, but it's a decently executed work among similarly themed films.
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The director of the awful sequel to 30 Days of Night has done a pretty good job, something I wasn’t expecting from him. Excellent proof that you shouldn’t immediately dismiss anyone. Beneath is a text-book example of survival horror, i.e. a film where a group of characters (as it’s typical, in an attractive natural setting like mountains or caves) fight for their lives, both against the external circumnstances or various villains, and against each other. Survival is a pretty gratifying sub-genre, when it’s well made it can deliver tension basically from beginning to end, and Beneath is well made. The setting of a caved-in coal mine feels dirty and claustrophobic, and when you remember news from different parts of the world about similar accidents, the plot feels quite credible. The execution is almost perfect and the actors are decent, but the script could have got a bit more attention: when the characters begin to hallucinate, the situation becomes quite unclear and now I can’t remember exactly what was the fate of each of the miners. It could also have gone a little deeper psychologically, there was potential for that. It would also have helped if the film was a purely masculine affair, like Carpenter’s The Thing, because focusing on the one female protagonist that by a screenwriting accident finds herself in the mine makes things a little predictable. And even though the story takes place in a spooky underground and the characters suffer from spooky images, rather than only scaring, the film holds the tension… which is somehow part of survival stories. But in spite of these quibbles, Beneath turned out to be an unexpectedly excellent survival movie, perhaps the best of its kind since The Decent. 8/10
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