Beneath

Name: Beneath
Genre: Horror
Released: July 25, 2014
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 34

2014

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IFC Midnight | Release Date: July 25, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events. [IFC Midnight]

Director: Ben Ketai

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 89 min

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Gary Goldstein

Jul 31, 2014

The well-crafted Beneath proves a taut, atmospheric if not especially deep thriller. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Jul 20, 2014

The film is impersonal and populated with wisps of characters who spend most of the running time wandering around in the dark yelling at one another. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Jul 24, 2014

Sparing with scares and judicious with gore, the director, Ben Ketai (working from a screenplay by Patrick J. Doody and Chris Valenziano), proves better at summoning atmosphere than developing characters. Read full review

Calum Marsh

Jul 22, 2014

Beneath exhausts the appeal of its thinly sketched characters almost as soon as they're trapped together in the mine's emergency bunker, and it isn't long before Ketai, tiring of human drama, turns instead toward the supernatural. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Jul 24, 2014

It’s hard to tell who’s who; it doesn’t really matter, because they’re all equally bland, and the threat these ciphers face is almost certainly nonexistent. It’s just about the perfect formula for tedium. Read full review

Rex Reed

Jul 23, 2014

It simply turns into another slash-and-dice horror flick, replete with enough screams for three more installments of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jul 25, 2014

When does a bad, cheap horror movie becomes something more offensively horrible? When it pegs its generic nonsense on real-life tragedy and becomes exploitation. Ben Ketai’s Beneath, not to be confused with the Larry Fessenden film of the same name from last year, is the kind of mediocrity one finds on The Movie Channel on a Saturday night and pretty easily dismisses. Read full review

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