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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovBeneath 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.
- 30The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSomeone involved with Beneath the Darkness has either watched too many horror movies or not enough. There is not an original thought in this story, written by Bruce Wilkinson, or in the way it is directed by Martin Guigui.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterA teens-in-trouble thriller with barely enough momentum to make it to the end credits. Performances and script are made-for-cable grade.
- Yet that deeply strange and agitated performance by Quaid is the only thing that makes the film remotely bearable.
- 25Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerOverly expository dialogue abounds throughout Martin Guigui's movie, as do questionable filmmaking choices and plenty of stupidly unconvincing actions taken on the part of the film's characters.
- 25New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickIt'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.''
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoiceUnfortunately for Quaid, director Martin Guigui's pathetic thriller doesn't even have the pulse-pounding excitement of a second-tier Scooby-Doo mystery.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierA 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...