Will You Run the Bath Darling (What Lies Beneath (DVD))

Member Name: Zmugzy

Product:	What Lies Beneath (DVD)
Date:	31/12/07 (85 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Michelle Pfeiffer

Disadvantages: Loses the plot near the end

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 steady pace. We get to know the characters, what they do where they live, how rich they are. The storyline is convincing until Pfeiffer starts jumping onto her husband in a frenzy or into the lake in the middle of the night and there are just too many visits to the bathroom. The spooky ghost becomes a silly one in the end.

Direction
The film trudges along nicely until halfway when all sense of direction is lost. It's as if the screenwriters didn't know what to do next and so it seems like director Robert Zemeck just made the final scenes up as he went along. In the end you don't really care about the story or what happens to who.

Acting
Michelle Pfeiffer plays a convincing role as spooked housewife Claire Spencer until her eyes start turning green and she spends most of her time walking around in a wet nighty. Harrison Ford with his usual wooden face and wooden acting mumbles his lines throughout and is still in need of a proper haircut.

Cinematography
This was of an acceptable standard, although the special effects are a bit cheesy at times.

Conclusion
It's not a film you can take seriously even if you're a fan of typical Hollywood horror movies. There are just too many ridiculous, unbelievable or tiresome predictable scenes in the latter part of the movie.

Memorable quote
Claire Spencer: There's a ghost in my house... ... She looked like me, only she had green eyes.

Summed up in a word: Shite


© Zmugzy December 2007

Summary: Too wet