ninjaalexs A glossy tense thriller that introduces some horror elements that were popular at the time with films like The Others and The Ring. Harrison Ford puts in a decent performance and looks the part, but he isn't quite menacing enough, maybe because he's too likeable. Pfeiffer a class act as always, although I get echoes of Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct in this one. Well worth a watch.

yawael I still remember seeing the trailer for this film on TV back on the 2000, and i really was so impressed by the trailer, but anyway i couldn't watched it the summer of 2001 in cinema (that used to bring old movies). The movie Star two of the biggest movie stars from the nineties ( Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford) and directed by (Robert Zemeckis) you know the same person who directed (Back To The Future Trilogy), so you can see why i was so exited to see this film when it came out back then.This film is one of the best ( if not the best) scary movies ever that brought to the big screen, sorry don't get me wrong there are a lot more frightening films than this one, but that's not enough to make a successful one. what Lies Beneath have a great scary moments mixed with great acting, directing and story line that make it difficult for any other film to achieve.Michele Pfeiffer gave us a perfect example for a victim character, she starts the movie in a way and end it in another according to the story line and the events of the film, her performance here was so powerful after her great performance in The Deep End Of The Ocean 1999 ( now the biggest question is why she didn't had an Oscar nomination for both her roles!!!).As for Harrison Ford he brought a second evil character of his whole acting career which was somehow one of his best performance, he really convinced me with his villain character .

Troy Putland What Lies Beneath goes through a two hour period of no ambiance, or at least it feels that way. Michelle Pfeiffer's wife to scientist Harrison Ford believes their house is haunted by a single ghost. For the majority of this film we're led down a path of tense scares and frights, which are conjured from thin air. Robert Zemeckis knows how to add these unbearable moments without us really knowing what they're about. Pfeiffer puts in a stellar performance as the jittery, mentally unbalanced wife, whereas Ford's as wooden as a tree trunk, not giving a hoot about his wife's slowly deteriorating health. What Lies Beneath is a very thrilling thriller, with the bathtub scene (no, not sexual in any way) likely to stick to the mind for a long, long time.

Robert J. Maxwell Not much needs to be said about this over-familiar story of a woman harassed by ghosts in her new lakeside house except that the performances are quite good and the budget greater than a much better horror story like "Carnival of Souls." Michelle Pfeiffer is beautiful, as always, but the role itself is written strictly by the numbers. She's the helpless victim that no one believes, from any Lifetime Movie Network film of your choice. I don't know why they hired Harrison Ford to be the stereotypical husband. It must have cost them a good deal. But, like other husbands in these flicks, he's a workaholic, skeptical, down-to-earth, and puzzled by Pfeiffer's claims. (He sends her to a shrink.) What a waste of money. Any one of dozens of professional B-level Canadian men could have done the job as well.But why go on? You've seen every second of it before, in one or another film about haunted women in haunted houses. There has to be a best friend who half-believes too, and who tries to help. They usually die. I didn't sit around long enough to see if Diana Scarwid, a fine actress, dies.The musical score borrows heavily from two sources: "Psycho" and "The Shining." There is a loud WHOOSH or a WHAM and a piping shriek from Pfeiffer whenever a gust brushes through the shrubbery or the door slowly and ominously creaks open. (The family dog comes in.) The movie never misses a shot, no matter how cheap the thrill.Pfui.