jefuab Beneath (2013, Larry Fessenden) has a set of highly obnoxious characters who are whittled down to the irredeemable few by a large catfish.There are good things about this film, they are: 1. The catfish; although not at all anatomically correct it is striking and the plus is that it is a prop, not CGI, which makes it physically imposing.2. I personally like that the film is almost entirely in daylight. It's a brave move because it means the monster is shown in daylight, so you see it clearly when it is on the screen. I prefer my Godzilla fights during the day, so why not my attacking fish.That's it. Here are the bad points: 1. The characters are sickening. I don't go in for this "let's make these people total trash so we all want to see them die!" rubbish. Wasn't Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies a good duo in Piranha? Weren't Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon a good team in Tremors? Wasn't Sigourney Weaver just great in the Alien films? 2. The music is poor. It floats around like it's from another film. Music is supposed to be a reflection of what's happening on screen and what we as viewers are meant to be feeling. This generated virtually no tension whatsoever.3. The story line. It's basically a version of The Raft, a segment of Creepshow 2, where a bunch of annoying people hang out on a raft only to be picked off one by one by a thing in the water.4. The filming lacks energy and creativity.This film seems to have been made by people who were not interested in making a horror film at all, but yet were retro enough to not go down the CGI route, which appeases people like me, and yet they did go down the route of not caring about plot and characterisation- the not caring of which typically goes hand in hand with CGI monsters, so it's a total disaster.I watched it once and liked what I liked. I will not be watching this film again.It gets a 4 because of the catfish and the daylight!

egneedham This movie was absolutely awful. I just don't know what to say, but I'll try to list a few of the reasons to not watch this movie. 1. The entire movie, they are the same distance from shore and do not get closer. 2. At one point, they "realize" that they were paddling in circles (in a 200 yard wide lake). 3. They decide to throw people overboard to buy time. After throwing one body and two "friends" overboard, they realize they can make oars out of the seats of the boat. What the hell? 4. Two of the three friends thrown overboard somehow survive only to be later killed in a irritating, nonsensical manner. 5. One of the "friends" gets rapped up by a slow moving rope that is powered by a tiny trolling motor. He falls over and struggles helplessly like in Austin Powers, where the guys yells stop and gets killed by a steam roller. Comedy? 6. How did they even get to the middle of the lake? It doesn't make sense that a monster hungry for human flesh would ignore the large group of loud people until they made it to the center of the lake. 7. The creature eats and eats without needing more than a few minutes to digest the bodies of a person half it's size. How many people does it take to fill that monster's belly? 8. The acting wasn't bad, but the reasoning behind each character's thought process didn't make sense. I feel bad for the actors involved since they actually weren't bad...

svartamoln There's no word to describe this movie because it was awful from beginning to end. I usually check on IMDb to see if a movie is worth watching but I checked on the wrong movie (there are two movies called Beneath on IMDb).At first I thought it would be a good movie to see, I didn't expect any masterpiece but from the very first moment I saw that ancient fish I realized this was gonna be a waste of time, I needed to watch the end of the movie though just to warrant my first impression, but the bad acting, the poor effects and the lack of budget made me write my very first comment on IMDb just to prevent you from watching this movie, plus the storyline was unclear, I didn't even know why they decided to use the rowboat, knowing (one of them) it would be very likely to be attacked by the fish or that one of the boys decides to take a swim.Do yourself a favor and skip this movie, it's a waste of time.

karlsenior369 Dreadful teen horror story set up - teens, love triangle, lake, boat, beer, party, monster, death blah blah blahIt seemed like everyone -silent one, jock, jock's bro, t'other lass, everyone except the geek that is, had shagged the slut, even the other lass.I liked the way the sides of the fish looked as it moved through the water, it did indeed look fish-like.I hated all the characters, which in my book means they played their parts well because they were all indeed pretty despicable. And I didn't understand how they never seemed to get any closer to the shore when they were in a lake.!All in all it was pretty dire.