Please don't spend money on this.

Expected more

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It was a terrible friggin movie. Not sure where to begin. The box makes it seem like a horror movie that takes place by the beach or something. But nope, it's a lake. A small lake. No scary moments. No scares. No jumps. No acting. No monster/killer. Just terrible acting, terrible directing and worse story. Stay away.And because I have to have 10 lines of dialogue, I'm going to talk about a movie I did like that had a beach and a lake. It's called Lake Placid. And it was awesome.Another horror flick with a lake or beach that I liked was any of the Friday the 13th films.

I do have a love/hate addiction with Brian Yuzna. The Re-animator flicks, From Beyond, I loved them, Dagon wasn't my thing. Beneath Still Waters isn't available over here so I had to pick it up in the States. It's so strange being made in Spain and the UK that it never was released in Europe. Again, I have mixed feelings with this flick. The story is typical Yuzna but the first half was really boring. It's at the final that gory shots (the policeman cutting of his own legs and arms) and horror comes in. Before that it's more about ghosts and legends. What tears this flick down is the amount of CGI. The scene at the woods did remind me of the evil possession and rape scene in Evil Dead and the flower going open did remind me, in fact a pure rip-off of Alien's eggs containing Facehuggers. The acting itself couldn't convince me and it lays in the fact that Spanish actors had to talk English and it shows. They had to put more energy into that then into the acting. Maybe the best acting was done by Charlotte Salt (Clara) and it shows moving further to major productions like Beowolf as Estrith.There's quite a amount of unexpected nudity in it, the first one you can see coming when you see her face, and yes, the blond one goes full frontal naked but it's again towards the end, the horror part, that a celebration turns out into a gang bang. Of course only juggs are shown. The effects were also departed into two camps, one the CGI for the water scene's and the real effects into the second part of the flick. You could easily see the CGI in for example the scene in the woods. There's also use of a miniature underwater city and that shows too. So okay at the end, cheap in the beginning. If it was played by English actors or Spanish actors it would worked out better and less use of CGI would have made it like Re-animator, sadly it didn't. Still one to see if you are into Yuzna flicksGore 2/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

now I'm no expert in directors , producers and all that B.S. no offense that stuff takes memorizing blablabla but i can tell you i am an expert in actors (acting), special effects, plot and all the on screen stuff, that being said . This movie lacks all the above. The actors were horrible , special effects (what special effects?!), plot (i didn't realize this movie had one, it looked like a bunch of unorganized scenes to me) what i don't understand is how this movie ever got to a theater, there should be some sort of comity to prevent us from watching stupid useless movies like "Beneath still waters" . seriously DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE , not now not ever , not when your bored, nothing else to do, NEVER . You cant say i didn't warn you .

While nothing to rush out and buy, Brian Yuzna's 2005 film "Beneath Still Waters" is not nearly as bad as the negative comments would indicate. It's a decent premise with quality production design, it puts most of its respectable budget on the screen, Charlotte Salt is very easy to look at, and it features the most effeminate looking warlock in cinema history for some needed (although probably unintentional) comedy relief.The negative reaction mostly comes from an extremely weak ending and a final moronic twist that takes about 10 IQ points off the target audience. But compared to the staggeringly lame low budget garbage going direct to DVD these days "Beneath Still Waters" is a breathe of fresh air.Things set up nicely with an interesting flashback scene to 1965 when a damn project flooded a valley in Spain and submerged the village of Marinbad. The reason for this is slowly revealed during the first half of the film as it is tied to a supernatural force which has caused several recent deaths in the town and appears to be structurally weakening the damn on the eve of the new village's 40th anniversary celebration.The last third of the film is like a bad remake of Jaws 3-D (1983), degenerating into a low budget disaster movie. Just substitute a damn, a lake, an effeminate warlock, and a partying hard group of villagers for the Sea World glass tunnels, the ocean, the mean shark, and a bunch of partying park guests.Salt is the best reason to watch. She has several scenes with her recently deceased grandfather's spirit; which are nicely done and genuinely creepy. The special effects are not overdone and the only genuinely lame character is the village's "Ed Wood" type police captain.The DVD is closed captioned which is getting to be an indicator of technical quality. And the lack of a commentary feature is good sign that the director is grounded in reality.Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.