What Lies Beneath (2000)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.5/10   

Director:

Robert Zemeckis

Escritores (WGA):

Sarah Kernochan (story) and
Clark Gregg (story) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 julio 2000 (USA)

Género:

Horror | Misterio | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

He was the perfect husband until his one mistake followed them home.

Plot:

The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost -- or that she's losing her mind.

Plot Keywords:

Ghost | Vermont | Ouija Board | Ouija | College

Premios:

4 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Scary, spooky, in a way that reminds me of days gone by.

Reparto

Harrison Ford	...	Dr. Norman Spencer
Michelle Pfeiffer	...	Claire Spencer
Diana Scarwid	...	Jody
Joe Morton	...	Dr. Drayton
James Remar	...	Warren Feur
Miranda Otto	...	Mary Feur
Amber Valletta	...	Madison Elizabeth Frank
Katharine Towne	...	Caitlin Spencer
Victoria Bidewell	...	Beatrice
Eliott Goretsky	...	Teddy
Ray Baker	...	Dr. Stan Powell
Wendy Crewson	...	Elena
Sloane Shelton	...	Mrs. Templeton
Tom Dahlgren	...	Dean Templeton
Micole Mercurio	...	Mrs. Frank

También conocida como:

Revelaciones (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
Lo que la verdad esconde (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for terror/violence, sensuality and brief language.

Duración:

130 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

Brazil:14 | Japan:R | Iceland:16 | Hungary:16 (TV rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A | Chile:14 | Colombia:18 | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-14 | France:-12 | Germany:16 (w) | Hong Kong:IIB | Hungary:18 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 | Mexico:B | Philippines:PG-13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Burlington, Vermont, USA

Compañía:

DreamWorks SKG

Trivialidades:

Claire and Norman's sailboat is called "Good Genes".

Errores:

Incorrectamente calificados como errores: The picture that keeps breaking is a newspaper clipping of the same celebration that Madison attended. While the clipping reports the search to be "intensifying" and Madison didn't go missing for three days, the report could have been from a weekly newspaper.

Citas:

[first lines]
Claire Spencer: Good morning, Beauty. Let's go or we'll never leave on time.
Caitlin Spencer: I'm totally ready.
Claire Spencer: Come on. I'll make you some waffles.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007)

Banda de Sonido:

The Four Seasons: Autumn

Scary, spooky, in a way that reminds me of days gone by.

Oh man!! What a fun movie! Without giving too much away, it's a ghost movie. The plot wasn't anything to write home about, it's been done about 100 times before, but it was just done better than it has been in recent memory. Seems that movies try to over-do everything lately with special effects, gore, music and violence. Not here... I kept thinking that they had taken a step back and returned to what makes movies spooky. It's not a computer generated demon, or a high intensity soundtrack; it's a creaky door, it's a reflection in the glass, it's that feeling when you know you just pushed that chair in a minute ago and now it's away from the table again. That's what makes people uneasy, that's what makes them check their closets and sleep with the hall light on when they go home.

The most notable difference in the movie was the silence. I'd guess that about 50% of the movie was completely silent except for breathing, footsteps, creaking doors... wonderful. Seems that lately the powers-that-be just have to fit every second of the soundtrack into the movie (seems they should since now-a-days there's commercials for the soundtrack separate from the movie in many cases) in order to boost the spooky level... it rarely works. The silence in the movie just added to that tension in your shoulders and made you slowly edge up on your seat.

If I had to pick anything to complain about, it'd be the weak foreshadowing of two events, I don't want to give anything away, but you'll know when you see it. It's like they gave up on trying to write them into the plot. They may as well have put a subtitle on the screen (or a "Pop Up Video" bubble) that told you that what they were saying was important. For my wife and I, it gave a bit away about how the movie was likely to end.

Michelle Pfeiffer was really good, I'd guess she was in almost every single shot in the film, so anything but a great performance would have shown. I'm not normally one to judge actors performances, but there's some credit to be given to someone who can act that scared using only her eyes. I wouldn't be surprised if she gets a nod at the academy for this one.