Four friends discover that the town's mortician has been doing some very strange things with the corpses, so they set out to expose him in BENEATH THE DARKNESS, starring Dennis Quaid. One part teen horror, one part necrophilic shocker... It would seem that BENEATH THE DARKNESS has much to offer the Horror audience, but this tame and tired thriller fails to spark even the least amount of interest. Dennis Quaid plays a rather weak villain. He is neither creepy nor intimidating, and often looks silly while attempting to be either. No one in the angst-ridden cast of annoying teen stereotypes even remotely comes forward as the film's hero, and they instead form a group of anti-heroes that break into the poor man's house without reason and get what they have coming to them. With no compelling characters, a questionable plot, minimal shocks, and only a handful of bloodless murders, BENEATH THE DARKNESS becomes a tedious viewing experience. It cribs nearly its entire structure from D.J. Caruso's DISTURBIA, but doesn't think to steal either its humor or suspense. Like Quaid's few hapless victims, this film is better left buried BENEATH THE DARKNESS.
Movies like BENEATH THE DARKNESS:
DISTURBIA, BURIED ALIVE, MY SOUL TO TAKE, BEYOND THE DARKNESS, FUNERAL HOME, LIVING DOLL.
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