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  • 2012
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary The terrifying secrets of a small town hero are exposed when a teenaged prank turns deadly. Ely Vaughn is a pillar of the community in tiny Smithville, Texas. The town’s mortician, Ely has been revered since his days as the high school’s star quarterback. But since the tragic death of his wife two years earlier, Ely has withdrawn from hi...

Directed By: Martin Guigui

Written By: Bruce Wilkinson

  • 2012
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m

Beneath the Darkness

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
22
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 16 User Ratings
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Summary The terrifying secrets of a small town hero are exposed when a teenaged prank turns deadly. Ely Vaughn is a pillar of the community in tiny Smithville, Texas. The town’s mortician, Ely has been revered since his days as the high school’s star quarterback. But since the tragic death of his wife two years earlier, Ely has withdrawn from hi...

Directed By: Martin Guigui

Written By: Bruce Wilkinson

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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10% Mixed
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90% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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90% Negative
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40
Jan 5, 2012
Beneath the Darkness has nada on Don Coscarelli's epic "Phantasm" saga or, for that matter, Norman Bates' clear-eyed if psychotic shenanigans. It's strictly a guilty pleasure.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
30
Jan 6, 2012
A teens-in-trouble thriller with barely enough momentum to make it to the end credits. Performances and script are made-for-cable grade.
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30
Jan 6, 2012
A malformed, would-be horror shocker with a deliriously deranged performance by Dennis Quaid, who unfortunately seems to be the only one onboard who thinks he's in a comedy.
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25
Jan 10, 2012
You anticipate every scene before it happens and figure out every secret before it's revealed.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
25
Jan 6, 2012
It's sad to see Quaid in sloppily directed (by Martin Guigui) dreck like Beneath the Darkness less than a decade after the performance of his career as a closeted married man in "Far From Heaven.''
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
20
Jan 5, 2012
A dumb thriller starring Dennis Quaid as a weirdo mortician taunted by high school kids into revealing what he did with his wife and her lover years before - and look at the movies it rips off...
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
20
Jan 3, 2012
Unfortunately for Quaid, director Martin Guigui's pathetic thriller doesn't even have the pulse-pounding excitement of a second-tier Scooby-Doo mystery.
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Production Company Raincreek Productions, Sunset Pictures, BTDARK
Release Date Jan 6, 2012
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Now I lay you down to sleep.
Website http://www.beneaththedarkness.com/
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Awards

Austin Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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