Attractive blonde Samantha Marsh (Kelly Noonan) joins a group of miners on a dig 600 feet below the surface on her father's (Jeff Fahey) final day as foreman for the group. Today is the day in which something goes spectacularly wrong. Wouldn't you just know it? And so, the group of hardened men and a capable but frightened woman are trapped as a mine collapses and air, putrid as it is, is starting to run out.
You have to be in the right mood to enjoy a film full of panicking people trapped in a punishing environment, as with anything really. What 'Beneath' does, it does very well, and you really do get a sense that the hugeness of their subterranean is made persuasively close and claustrophobic.
Among the 'god-damns' and the beautiful capped teeth is a real sense of there being something 'out there', because if the situation was not bad enough, there is also some (sadly unexplained) spiritual presence sharing the space with them, which makes its presence felt at the least welcome times.
This is a well-played, tense underground horror.
You have to be in the right mood to enjoy a film full of panicking people trapped in a punishing environment, as with anything really. What 'Beneath' does, it does very well, and you really do get a sense that the hugeness of their subterranean is made persuasively close and claustrophobic.
Among the 'god-damns' and the beautiful capped teeth is a real sense of there being something 'out there', because if the situation was not bad enough, there is also some (sadly unexplained) spiritual presence sharing the space with them, which makes its presence felt at the least welcome times.
This is a well-played, tense underground horror.