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  • 2014
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2014
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 29 m

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]

Directed By: Ben Ketai

Written By: Patrick J. Doody, Chris Valenziano

  • 2014
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2014
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 29 m

Beneath

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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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]

Directed By: Ben Ketai

Written By: Patrick J. Doody, Chris Valenziano

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Mixed
3 Reviews
63% Negative
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60
Jul 31, 2014
The well-crafted Beneath proves a taut, atmospheric if not especially deep thriller.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Calum Marsh FULL REVIEW
25
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.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
25
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.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Elevative Entertainment, Revolver Picture Company
Release Date Jul 25, 2014
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Screamfest
• 6 Wins & 6 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination

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