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PLOT
A submarine rescues three survivors from a ship. It's World War II
and the submarine is forced to dive as they are being attacked by
Germans... or so they think. But what is it really that is trying
to kill them? Scaring them half to death, making weird sounds
outside and turning everyone against eachother? It looks as if
they've got a bigger problem than Germans attacking them.
REVIEW
There came a day when Hollywood finally managed to create an original,
frightening horrormovie. Unfortunately, the company releasing this film
decided to change the number of screens that it should be shown on in
the last week, removing about 2000 screens from the list, leaving it
with a very limited release and almost no promotion at all. Below is
an astonishing film and if I didn't hate Dimension Films for bringing
us the terrible Scream movies, I hate them now. They have to be
incredibly stupid to release this as a limited feature as this could
probably have rolled in at least 60 million dollars at the box office
if it had only gotten more promotion and a wider opening. When this
finally comes to DVD people will most likely think that it's a DTV
movie, and they will avoid renting it. Shame on you Dimension.
Director David Twohy has become one of my favourite directors in very
short time. He showed us in Pitch Black that he was here to stay and
Below has, in my opinion, even better directing. The atmosphere is
high and there are some incredibly intense scenes. The cast is 96%
male, only one female casted in this movie. All of the actors are
excellent and there are a few faces to recognize. For me, it was
surprising to see that Jason Flemyng managed to be in two WWII horror
movies in only two years time, I mean, how often do these films get
made really? If you're wondering what movie I'm talking about, it's
the terrible movie The Bunker.
Below is an incredibly suspenseful film and I just loved it. It was
as if they had done the usual submarine concept and just thrown in
suspense and frights everywhere. We never actually know that there
are ghosts on the ship, but we definitely get that haunting feeling.
This movie is actually so scary that my eyes teared up in one scene
because it was too suspenseful but you can't stop watching it.
I think that the weirdest thing is that I had very high expectations
for this film, and we all know that that is not a good thing to get.
But I heard about this movie about a year before its release and got
interested right away. Still, this managed to live up to my expectations
and it was even a lot better than I could ever have imagined. You
won't believe how mad I was when I heard that it was only getting a
limited cinema release. This is one of my all time favourites and I
will definitely watch this a few more times before I lay it to rest.
GORE
Nothing much, some burnt bodies and some corpses.
SOUNDTRACK
As I said, this tries to stay very close to the average submarine
action film so the soundtrack is about the same as you heard in
all these movies. But, it also has some incredibly powerful and
atmospheric music that many movies miss. The soundtrack helps the
movie a lot and is always very intense.
BOTTOM LINE
If you haven't seen this yet, you should. This is one that I can
almost guarantee that you will love. One of my all time favourite
US horrormovies. If you liked U-571 and if you like ghost movies,
this is the one for you. I didn't like U-571 and still, I loved this
movie, so whether you're into this kind of movie or not, I still highly
advice you to see this. I would really like to know how high the
budget was for this movie as the effects are really good so if you
know, feel free to send me an email. BUY THIS NOW!
Review
By: AnthroFred
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