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 What Lies Beneath (DVD)
 What Lies Beneath (DVD) ... DVD released 17 September, 2001 at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen / What would Hitchcock have done if he had had modern digital effects? The answer is almost certainly: something very like What Lies Beneath, Robert Zemeckis' technically accomplished supernatural thriller that pays open homage to Suspicion, Rear Window and Psycho, to name but three. Michelle Pfeiffer delivers one of the finest, most nuanced performances of her career as a woman in an ideal relationship whose perfect life begins to unravel with terrifying consequences. Harrison Ford plays sympathetically against type as her husband who may or may not be telling her the truth. Although made in the middle of his filming Cast Away, while the director waited for Tom Hanks to shed some pounds, this is no quickie throwaway picture. Zemeckis loads this character-driven story with genuinely scary suspense, using subtle camera moves, mirrored reflections and red-herrings in a classic Hitchcockian manner--the difference here is that he has access to the most up-to-date digital effects and employs them with characteristic imagination, creating seemingly impossible camera angles that only enhance the tension. The Production Design is equally carefully considered, as even the idyllic household setting with its pristine bathroom is gradually transformed into an object of terror. Composer Alan Silvestri's score winds up the drama several notches further with an appropriate Bernard Herrmann pastiche. On the DVD: The principal attraction of this disc is the pin-sharp anamorphic picture and 5.1 soundtrack--superb picture and sound quality contribute greatly to the enjoyment here, since Zemeckis is one of the few contemporary directors who remains acutely sensitive to the composition of each and every scene. The brief featurette is a little misleadingly titled, as it's essentially a profile of Zemeckis' career with a few comments about this film thrown in for good measure. The rather dry and uninvolving commentary is by Zemeckis with producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke. --Mark WalkerNewest Review: ... 'Ford are married, have just sent their daughter to college, and have 'weird' neighbours moving in next door. They live in a ... more ... stupifyingly nice Maine house next to a lake, beutiful vistas etc. Now that daughter has left home and husband is at work all day, wife is starting to go increasingly loopy... or is she? Are the neighbours really murdering each other? Is there a ghost? What's going on?
And the movie continues in this vein, the tension ever increasing as revelation follows startling discovery follows horrific apparition. Doubtless other ops you read on this will ruin the twists and turns, but suffice to say that the perspective of th...more |
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What Lies Beneath (DVD): What Lies Beneath The Lies (769 words)
by - written on 09/04/08 (Very useful, 69 readings)
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Nervous housewife Claire is being bothered by things that go bump in the night. Her daughter has just done the off to university, and her Professor husband Norman spends too many hours in the office. They've recently renovated Norman's fathers house on the lake. Initially, Claire puts the strange occurrences in their house down to the Fuer's who live next door. Mr Fuer is a strange hulking character with a nasty temper, and Mrs Fuer is a neurotic woman who appears to have disappeared. However, messages on the bathroom mirrors and flickering lights soon reveal something closer to home at play. What Lies Beneath was one of many similarly paced thrillers ... Read the complete review
Will You Run the Bath Darling (395 words)
by - written on 31/12/07 (Very useful, 85 readings)
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Synopsis Middle class couple: he (Harrison Ford) an overpaid science researcher, she (Michelle Pfeiffer) a an ex-classical musician who gave up her profession to support hubby and bring up offspring who leaves for university. The couple have been renovating the old house that seems haunted to the wife but Hubby doesn't believe in ghosts because he has a scientific mind and he soon books her in for some shrink sessions. But she's having none of it and, influenced by a friend, it's not long before the Ouija board is out and the candles are lit. There are also some creepy neighbours who initially fall under suspicion of the wife. The film starts off at a ... Read the complete review
What Lies Beneath (DVD): Deep and Dangerous (333 words)
by - written on 18/02/09 (Very useful, 6 readings)
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Damn, I'm fairly churning these puppies out today. Found some old film stubs and decided to scrape out my brain & review 'em. Lucky you. If memory serves, What Lies Beneath is actually pretty good. A suitably shocking trailer, a bored artist, a rainy day and BAM! I'm in the theatre, and trying desperately to forget Harrison Ford in Air Force One. We start with establishing the characters: Michelle Pfeiffer and 'Ford are married, have just sent their daughter to college, and have 'weird' neighbours moving in next door. They live in a stupifyingly nice Maine house next to a lake, beutiful vistas etc. Now that daughter has left home and husband is at ... Read the complete review
by - written on 17/01/03
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Starring: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, et al. Director: Robert Zemeckis Runtime: 124 minutes Synopsis: A year ago, Claire had an accident that left her oblivious to her husband, Norman's adultery. Their marriage had always been so perfect. With the affair long since over, Norman thinks everything can continue as before; but not when Claire starts hearing voices and witnessing apparitions in their home. As Claire unwittingly stumbles upon more and more of Norman's dishonesty, it becomes obvious the ghostly figure will not go away. It has come back to taunt Norman, and to take revenge on he and his wife. **OPINION: ... Read the complete review
What Lies Beneath (DVD): Do You Like Scary Movies? (2135 words)
by - written on 16/01/03 (Very useful, 179 readings)
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I do. I didn't like this. It has been a while since I saw this at the cinema and to be honest, it didn't really do much for me at the time and I wouldn't have been interested in the DVD were it not a freebie from Fox.co.uk...if you're quick they might still be offering a choice of it, Doctor Doolittle or The Full Monty just for signing up to their free newsletter... Anyway, I wasn't impressed by the movie which came in the wake of The Blair Witch Project and The Sixth Sense and was obviously trying to cash in on the big business which these two movies generated at the box office. Compared to either, it's lame - there are few ... Read the complete review
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What Lies Beneath (DVD) : Do You Like Scary Movies?from wampyrii
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