What Lies Beneath, the suspense-thriller from veteran director Robert Zemeckis has the star power of both Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Combine the star-power with a superb script and the outcome is a movie with Hitchcock-like twists and turns, and essentially, a very edge-of-your-seat mystery with plenty of instances of sheer terror.
If you've seen the trailer, you might think you know too much about the movie, but the beauty of this movie is that you really don't know what exactly is going on until the last half-hour of the movie. The real twists and turns are saved for the last part of the movie while the first half basically sets up the plot.
Even though the movie starts out a bit slow with a story about Claire's (Pfeiffer) only daughter going away to college, which is only used to set up her lonlieness and anxiety. While this theme could have been done away with and the first hour of the movie compressed into about thirty minutes, when the action starts, it never lets up.
What Lies Beneath is being billed as a horror/suspense/thriller - and it definitely delivers in all of these areas. Quite possibly the scariest film I've seen in a few years, it kept me guessing until the end and the suspense was almost unbearable at times. Definitely a movie that I'd recommend - just make sure you're not too easily frightened otherwise you'll be screaming throughout.
