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Watch it now before it's in Theaters. A powerful thriller inspired by actual events: at a coal mine in a blue-collar town it’s the last day of work for veteran miner George Marsh (Jeff Fahey). His daughter Samantha (Kelly Noonan), a feisty environmental lawyer whose politics are bitterly opposed by her father, celebrates the occasion by accompanying him underground. She’s escorted by old flame Randy Bennings (Joey Kern); no sooner do they descend to the coal face, however, than a drilling machine malfunctions and punches through a supporting wall. A cave-in kills several workers and several others go missing. The crew foreman, Mundy (Brent Briscoe), is grievously injured. The shocked survivors retreat to a claustrophobic rescue chamber. While they wait for surface workers to reach them they hear terrifying, almost-human sounds from the bowels of the mine. After arguing among themselves, they leave the chamber to discover the noises’ source. Their frenzied efforts find nothing—except evidence of a similar disaster more than 90 years ago. Meanwhile: Samantha begins experiencing horrific visions. Several of the men panic, are separated from the group, and murdered-- gruesomely—by unseen assailants. As the air runs out and the death count rises, those who remain fight to separate their worst fears from reality.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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40%- Reviews Counted: 15
- Fresh: 6
- Rotten: 9
- Average Rating: 4.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: A below-ground but slightly above average horror movie ...
Rotten: Beneath exhausts the appeal of its thinly sketched characters almost as soon as they're trapped together in the mine's emergency bunker ...
Rotten: Halfway through, the movie loses its grip on logic and truth, and you stop believing it's based on anything other than the years the director spent in his youth, marching in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
Rotten: 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.
Customer Reviews
THIS IS NOT THE LARRY "BIG FISH" FESSENDEN MOVIE!!!!! WRONG RT METER!!!!
They have the wrong RT meter. I saw this film at #SIFF and it's awesome. IGNORE that.
Meh...ignore the 5 star "paid" reviewers...
I like the setting, in the mines, but the story is predictable, long, and the cheap scares don't make up for the horrific lack of substance.
Skip this one. It's well acted and produced, but that's about all the good I can say about it.
Really solid movie
I saw this at LA ScreamFest where it won best picture, among several other awards. I gotta say, Outside of Jeff Fahey, I hadn't seen the actors in anything else but man, they were great! Great suspense, not overly dependent on effects or gore to thrill. A good story to go along with good (and appropriately utilized) effects. Worth the price of admission!
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- Genre: Horror
- Expected Release: Oct 28, 2014
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