Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Memorable quotes:
Claire Spencer: "What's their name again?
Norman Spencer: Feur, I think. Psych department. Figures, they're all nuts."
Claire: "She's awake.
Norman: We'll be quiet. Quick and quiet.
Claire: I don't want to be either.
Norman: When is she out of here?
Claire: Norman Spencer!"
Norman: If I don't get you out of here quick, they'll make you enrol.
Norman: "You guys take good care of each other, okay?
Beatrice: I won't go to a single bar without her."
Claire: Oh, a couple of Swedish sailor cells just gang-divided a virginal cheerleader cell.
Claire: "You are so brilliant.
Norman: Yep.
Claire: Madame Curie, Jonas Salk, Norman Spencer.
Norman: Yes!"
Norman: "Tired?
Claire: Nope.
Norman: Want to fool around?
Claire: Yep"
Claire: "What are you afraid of?
Mrs Feur: That someday I'll just disappear."
Claire: "Good, I'm good.
Jody: Are you?
Claire: Why does everyone find that so so surprising?
Jody: Because your only daughter just left for college, who you're extremely close with."
Claire: "Okay, I'm a little tender.
Jody: Good. You're human."
Jody: It's a beautiful thing, alimony. You lose a husband-get a car!
Norman: "We're going to be...
Claire: Fashionably five minutes late."
Norman: Maybe she was out, or in bed with the flu. Or maybe she was abducted by aliens for all you know.
Jody: "Are we hoping the ghost is gonna have to use the potty?
Claire: This is where she was. This is where I saw her."
Claire: "Did you pick up any dudes yet?
Jody: I have one in the trunk."
Mary Feur: Have you ever felt so completely consumed by a feeling for someone that you couldn't breathe? Thought that your time together was so passionate and consuming that you felt physical pain when they'd leave?
Norman: Don't let her corner you or she'll chew your ear off.
Norman: "It's too rough.
Claire: Since when?"
Norman: "You're playing.
Claire: She's gone.
Norman: How do you know?
Claire: I can feel it."
Norman: Claire, I don't know how to apologize to you for what I've done. But if you give me another chance I promise you I'll spend the rest of my life making you glad that you did.
Norman: You have no idea what it was like. Hold her underwater... watch her life slip away.
Norman: It was a passive-aggressive masterpiece.
Plot:
Soon after Claire's daughter leaves for uni, Claire has to accommodate to a near empty nest. Her husband, an eminent research scientist, is often gone for his work, leaving Claire on her own a lot. Things take a turn for the worse when Claire starts hearing voices and whispering in her home, and when strange things start to happen. Has Claire lost her mind or is the house haunted?
Review:
What Lies Beneath is definitely one of my favourite thrillers and has been for years. Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford don't have to prove they are great actors to anyone, and you can just see why. Their performances are absolutely mind-blowing and the two of them has an excellent chemistry, which means that as an on-screen couple, there are completely believable.
I'd say that what I like most got to be the diversity of the genres we can find in this film. Sure it is a thriller, but it also contains some fantastic and paranormal elements, while also looking like a typical suspense movie.
There are so many films that try to create suspense for the viewers, yet fail miserably. This time however, I had to wait toward the end of the movie to find out what was going out. You often find yourself to be following a wrong track and there are so many twists and clues you need to assemble like a puzzle, I don't think you'll be bored!
Like Michelle Pfeiffer's character, you are left wondering what happened: What is the accident everyone is talking about? Why did she have a nervous breakdown? Was she suicidal? Is she going crazy? Has her daughter really gone to uni? Who are her strange neighbours?
Chances are, you'll keep trying to answer all those questions while the story unfold!
I thought Harrison Ford did extremely well, and I believe it might be the only film I've seen him play such an ambiguous character.
What Lies Beneath also flirts with the horror genre at times, and at some point you'll definitely be scared and jump out of your seat. I think the lack of understanding that we have regarding what is happening helps build some terror, as there is nothing more frightening that something you don't know or can't see. When glass starts shattering, when doors are closing without any reasons, when there are fumes coming from an enclosed space, or when there is a ghostly face appearing in a glimpse and disappearing just as quick, all those elements help keep you in a rather tender and nervous state.
I was also fully satisfied by the ending. Contrary to a lot of films, this one had a real closure and that I really appreciate. It also contains lots of actions and I was so scared for Michelle Pfeiffer's character, which also shows that her character had been developed enough for me to develop compassion toward her.
In sum, What Lies Beneath is one of the greatest thrillers you can find. It is suspenseful, deceitful, scary, and will keep you on your toes the whole time. A must see!
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I LOVE THIS MOVIE! <3
ReplyDeleteRight??? Probably one of the best thrillers!
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