Gosh I really wanted to like this one. It sort of had that Platform vibe, so I was really looking into it, in what it might develop. Indeed the action develops slowly but the pacing is quite alright, yet as the minutes go by you start to realize that the movie is more focused on ways to torture people, than an actually horror plot. If you compare this to As above so Below you start to understand what went wrong. Because one is a horror, the other I guess tried to make a statement but failed and miserably so. Whenever a horror movie can't truly deliver it relies on nothing more than 2 main things: either torture or gore.
Gore is something we got used to, but torture porn sadly still appeals to some, thus many such productions will go this way in order to close the deal. Like someone once said, a horror with jump scares, is like a comedian that goes around tickling the audience: you laughed...so...I did ok.
Same goes with torture porn, a sad excuse to make a movie, because most people will think perhaps the movie was too smart, too complex, thus let's not think it over and just go out and straight declare it a victory. Luckily, things don't work like this and Beneath Us is overall a waste of time. I would never recommend such a movie because it has little to do with cinema and more with...lack of imagination. And if some of you will decide to declare that...well it was natural and powerful, Ok, sure, but I'm watching a movie. Show me something different.
Anyway Beneath Us is a pass for me.
Cheers!
Gore is something we got used to, but torture porn sadly still appeals to some, thus many such productions will go this way in order to close the deal. Like someone once said, a horror with jump scares, is like a comedian that goes around tickling the audience: you laughed...so...I did ok.
Same goes with torture porn, a sad excuse to make a movie, because most people will think perhaps the movie was too smart, too complex, thus let's not think it over and just go out and straight declare it a victory. Luckily, things don't work like this and Beneath Us is overall a waste of time. I would never recommend such a movie because it has little to do with cinema and more with...lack of imagination. And if some of you will decide to declare that...well it was natural and powerful, Ok, sure, but I'm watching a movie. Show me something different.
Anyway Beneath Us is a pass for me.
Cheers!