What lies Beneath is a gripping tale. I was on the edge of my seat from the very start of the movie, and throughout the story there wasn’t a moment that I felt like it was slow. Of the recent releases that I have seen I would have to say that this is the best thriller. If you are looking for a great movie to rent this is the one.
Harrison Ford plays the concerned husband while Michelle Pfeiffer is the wife who seems to be going over the edge with the belief of a ghost’s presence in the house. Throughout the story you get bits and pieces about an accident that had happened a year before. This accident is the reason that Ford’s character believes his wife is a bit unstable, only Pfeiffer’s character remembers very little about the accident. It isn’t until her daughter goes off to college that the stress of that event begin to resurface and I am sure that the ghost haunting helps bring along some of those memories.
At first the wife begins to notice weird things around her and in the house, she believes that the neighbor might have murdered his wife because she saw the wife crying one day and then she was gone. When she realizes that didn’t actually happen that makes her ghost story less credible, until of course she realizes that her husband actually knew the girl. It seems that the accident was due to her finding her husband with this girl. When the girl threatened to blow the cover on the affair the husband had murdered her, and she had come back to haunt the couple. In the end the crazed husband tries to kill his wife as well, but she gets away.
This movie will keep you guessing right up until the end about what exactly happened. If you are going to see any horror film this is the one. Go out and get the video tonight. Pfeiffer does a great job at playing what I would consider a duel roll, as for a few moments in the film it seems the ghost has possessed the wife. Harrison Ford pulls off his good husband/bad husband roll very well also. Through most of the movie you think he is a wonderful guy who is just concerned about his wife’s sanity but then the kicker is that he was only worried about his reputation at the college where he works.
This is full of great action, special effects, and acting. I can’t count the number of times I jumped. There is very little sexual content which is rare for a horror film, and the language was tame as well.