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"It's him, i know it's him! It has to be him! Wait... what if he dialed some other number?" Claire thinks... She goes for the phone, presses Redial and..... "Dammit, dammit, dammit! These modern day phones again! If this movie would've been made in the 60s this scene would've been useless", Norman thinks... ehhh well let's start all over again.
What Lies Beneath is a very well done tensed thriller. And if you watch it at night, in complete darkness and very attentively, getting involved in the action, it's impossible not to become really scared at some points. I certainly did.
Claire and Norman form a happily married couple. Their daughter just left to college and now it's just them in a huge modern house. Well almost just them... The problems start when Claire starts hearing and seing things, and gets convinced that the house is haunted.
Robert Zemeckis does a very good job creating a well balanced tensed thriller. The plot is well contured and grows logically, the characters are powerful, the scenes are very tensed and sometimes spooky, the actors play great. Especially Michelle Pfeiffer - am i out of line if i think that after this performance Michelle would definetely deserve an Oscar? Well she does.
Well with so many good points, what's wrong with the movie? Why does it have an average of only 6,9? Why did i give it only a 7? Because of its lack of originality. During the whole film you have the feeling of seing a new Hitchcock movie. Well it's not Alfred Hitchcock, it's Robert Zemeckis, or more like... Al-bert Zemetchcock. The same tensed situations, of a rich guy living in a huge house, the same scenes with creaking doors and reflections in the mirror, the same many bathroom scenes, but this time the accent is not on the shower, but on the bath tub. This is related to Psycho. But it's not only this. The same haunted house story that we've seen many times. The same "revenging ghost", the same situations with woman seing things and his husband doesn't believe her, the same (many) situations in which you are extremely scared and it turns out to be the dog, the same "resurrection" of the bad guy, who wakes up a few times before totally dying.
In conclusion, a movie that's worth to be watched. Alone, in the dark. Just like Psycho. Otherwise you won't get scared. And without getting scared, it's no point in watching it.
ORIGINALITY: 4, PLOT: 6, CHARACTERS: 8, ACTORS: 10 (Michelle is fabulous), DIRECTOR: 8, OVERALL: 8. TOTAL: 7 out of 10.
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