I can’t really decide if it’s so bad that’s it’s good (or at least enjoyable) again.. I mean there’s a character trying to argue with the killer fish that’s stalking them by asking „What do you want?“ 🤔 that’s the level of ingenious dialogue we’re dealing with here 😋 

Moronic characters, horrible dialogue, rubbery ridiculous bulbous-eyed fish..

Ok, ok, in the end it’s a fairly entertaining c-movie creature feature, best enjoyed with a couple cold ones 🍻  and some friends I’d say.

Aside from the character drama and certain effects that seem created only to hamstring what the film gets right, "Beneath" generates a small amount genre charm. Revolving around a group of teens who make the bad decision to party on a lake whose chief piscine resident has a taste for human flesh, the film starts out as a solid piece of dangerous animal horror. The production is small scale, but performances and practical effects are mostly solid. However, when the film strays from the less-is-more approach, both in terms of story and creature effects, the film falters and manages to result only in a soggy experience.

Hmm, kadang saya bertanya-tanya kenapa, ya, ada film yang dari segi cerita sangat sudah kurang, tapi tetap harus di realisasikan sampai filmnya jadi. Direktor dan para aktornya memang sudah memberikan performa (mungkin) terbaik mereka namun tidak bisa menyelamatkan karena plot cerita yang.... kasian.

Berawal karena suksesnya The Last Winter yang membuat saya tegang dan stress setengah mati, saya memberanikan untuk menonton film lain dari Direktor yang sama; Larry Fassenden dan saya sangat menyesal. Beneath menghadirkan thriller survival dengan pengembangan cerita-karakter yang kurang, eksekusi yang meh, dan jumpscare yang gagal total.

Cerita berawal dari enam orang siswa SMA yang ingin merayakan kelulusan mereka dengan berlibur di sebuah pondok dekat danau besar, namun menuju kesana, mereka dihadang Ikan Pemakan Manusia. Mereka pun harus menumbalkan teman mereka sendiri satu persatu.

the characters are hard to like and they all seem rather annoying. the giant fish wasn’t so bad and i was kinda rooting for it to eat them all

It’s like a horror origin story about the lake from Big Fish. 

The creature was GOOFY but I loved him.

What a happy ending.

It's easy to see this as a story about a bunch of idiots getting eaten by a fish, but considering the talent and works of Larry Fassenden it's a helluva lot more easy to see it as a super-cynical satire over the stupidity of mankind. It's not easy to love any of the characters, but it's also the point with it all: they're all assholes in one way or another and they get what they deserve.

The only letdown is some bad acting from one or two of the talents involved and there's some dialogue that's a bit too unsubtle to feel natural, but except that this is a great little flick! And boy, that fish! I LOVE that fish! Best killer fish EVER!

"What do you want?!?!" --- dumb teenager yelling at a giant fish

Any movie that name drops Shark Night 3D is pretty much guaranteed to suck.

I liked this movie a whole hell of a lot better when it was an hour or so shorter and called "The Raft". I suggest you just rent or buy Creepshow 2 and watch that instead of this... Unless you have already watched it and thought "Hey, that needed a whole bunch more dumb assholes in it".

ok to me in my heart its a 5 because i enjoy this type of trash films its a guilty pleasure but we be honest should be called Shetneath. this film is plague with stupidest film characters in film history that continue to make the stupidest choices. this characters go from zero to we must kill each other as soon as a giant grouper shows up is astonishing. it was natural selection accruing. I guess that's what this film is really about Natural Selection and people to dumb to survive a fish. ok as the creature feature is decent than most. Fish effects looks great but laughable to think that no one decided to just try to swim to shore instead swim in circle to lure the fish. they all should have jump and swam and let who ever the fish caught first die. any ways. most unlikeable characters i was rooting for the fish the entire time

did you at least try?

Misérable.

This movie is bad and my GOD was it the enjoyable kind of bad. The acting is horrendous, the editing (especially when there's music) is completely bizarre, and I was absolutely certain it was a comedy in the second half.

Other things of note is that it's pretty late-2000s horror film misogynistic (so just a heads up), but on the plus side, it's neat they used a practical piece for the fish!

Please host a watch-party with your friends and this film, I sat here with my dog and had a BLAST with it.

this is a terrible movie, did not love.

The prehistoric
fish wins a place in my heart
for eating these teens.

Solid creature feature from the ever-reliable Larry Fessenden. "Beneath" takes a boat full of high-school graduates, sticks them in the middle of a lake with a big, hungry fish, and lets the Romero-esque tensions and betrayals rip the group apart. Surprisingly nasty at times, as characters try to rationalize turning their boat-mates into chum. Considering how most of the film takes place in broad daylight, Fessenden gets good mileage out of brief glimpses of the creature. The performances are a bit uneven, but the cast sells the overall desperation of the situation. A not-bad throwback to the creature features of yesteryear.

Hmm, kadang saya bertanya-tanya kenapa, ya, ada film yang dari segi cerita sangat sudah kurang, tapi tetap harus di realisasikan sampai filmnya jadi. Direktor dan para aktornya memang sudah memberikan performa (mungkin) terbaik mereka namun tidak bisa menyelamatkan karena plot cerita yang.... kasian.

Berawal karena suksesnya The Last Winter yang membuat saya tegang dan stress setengah mati, saya memberanikan untuk menonton film lain dari Direktor yang sama; Larry Fassenden dan saya sangat menyesal. Beneath menghadirkan thriller survival dengan pengembangan cerita-karakter yang kurang, eksekusi yang meh, dan jumpscare yang gagal total.

Cerita berawal dari enam orang siswa SMA yang ingin merayakan kelulusan mereka dengan berlibur di sebuah pondok dekat danau besar, namun menuju kesana, mereka dihadang Ikan Pemakan Manusia. Mereka pun harus menumbalkan teman mereka sendiri satu persatu.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

"Audibly yell at the characters on-screen for 90 minutes" The Movie

Lmao what man wrote this script 😭 These guys were doing the most for this one girl (who was also just as mediocre and awful as they were)??

However the giant fish puppet was actually fun for me? Low budget practical sfx here with no cgi. I mean don’t get me wrong, overall the whole thing is kinda frustrating and underwhelming, but I still was compelled enough to watch the whole thing.