So much average

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Beneath The Dark starts well enough. A young couple pull up into a hotel, looking for a place to stay for the night. As in so many hotel horrors that went before it, the place is deserted and what little people that are around are incredibly sinister. Sound familiar? That's because it is. Imagine Reeker, Vacancy and The Shining (try spot the references) thrown into a blender. That's the impression Beneath The Dark makes early on, and it's a good 'un. Slowly the movie unfolds a series of flashbacks which give an insight into the past of a few of the characters we have seen throughout the movie and into the secrets that their past holds. Paul and Adrienne are a run of the mill young couple experiencing a few relationship problems (Vacancy anyone?) and Frank is the lonely hotel owner who is sinister in his overt friendliness. All sounding pretty run of the mill so far? Here's where it veers off. Through the pre-mentioned flashbacks, and also the bizarre reveals we begin to realise there's a lot more going on in Paul's life than meets the eye, and from some reason, the events of the night seem to be unfolding around the mysterious secrets of his past. As the intensity of these bizarre incidents is cranked up the viewer begins to feel increasingly unsettled and also engrossed. The slow burning build-up beats every last inch of possible tension out of what is, in all fairness, a very lame script. Slowly Beneath The Dark appears to be building to something magnificent, and then boom, the end has happened. Where was our sensational denouement? Nowhere to be seen. In a finish that's likely to leave more questions than answers, and not in the good David Lynchian way, the viewer is left feeling somewhat ripped off. You put up with the bad acting and poor dialogue for what appears to be an interesting plot and quite decent direction to be left feeling somewhat dumbfounded as to how the writer felt that to be an acceptable finish to the movie. Beneath The Dark as a result, appears to be a case of a writer biting off more than he can chew, but with some very blatant signs of potential for the future. All in all I give it 6/10.

It starts out the old cliché of a couple driving in the middle of no where. Of course something happens and they have to stay in a creepy hotel. Nothing original here even the big twist at the end is just sad you see it coming. The movie is not boring and you get to feel for the character Frank (played by Chris Browning). The only good thing about this title is that it doesn't try to be this big suspenseful movie it knows it is a B movie. But besides that there really is nothing good about this film. I can just know of so many better movies to see besides this, because this is just one big cliché in a 1 hr 42 min movie.

I could easily review this film if I were to include spoilers - but in avoiding giving anything away there is so little I can say that I would like to say - this movie is shrouded in MYSTERY!"Beneath The Dark" takes place at a desert motel ... a young man (Paul) and a young woman (Adrienne) who must rest, and so cannot continue their journey. So they stop at a motel that seems to welcome them. But there is something very strange about this place - watch closely, at the beginning of the film and you will see the Motel concierge, Frank, slipping a typed-note on an A4 sheet of paper into a "Gideon's Bible" and replacing it in the top drawer of a bedside chest of drawers in the room in which Paul and Adrienne are doomed to stay - "The Orchid Room". Now surely, that could not possibly be construed as a spoiler - yet I have to be so careful not to give anything away!This is the mysterious rest-stop between two worlds that you have seen in so many episodes of "The Twilight Zone" ... but where in "The Twilight Zone" the story must be told in a brief introduction, two 11-minute acts, and s final short climax or dénouement, this story takes place over one and a half hours without ads. Apart from that, it is pretty much what you have been seeing on "The Twilight Zone" since 1959, and that is a compliment! (When television was influenced and employed theatre, when television was respectable and cared about the human condition!) Without giving anything away, literally, I can say I would have given this movie more, but the concept that "law" is "truth" is a devilish lie, so I can only give it a 6 ... and if IMDb's rules would allow it, I would have given it a 6.66! What about the unparalleled intervention and interference in human affairs that is going on according to so-called "rules" and "laws" by those who put themselves in positions of so-called "authority" over us, make rules to force us to bend and submit to, and who corruptly judge us accordingly? What of the unimaginable enormity of the harm THEY do?! Perhaps that note in "The Gideon's Bible" should not have been inserted at "LEVITICUS", but at the place where it says: "Judge not and you shall not be judged!" Even wisdom turns to evil and maggots, when it is made into law as a subterfuge to rule over us from ABOVE and to deprive us of our universal, inalienable, un-God-given FREEDOM (which comes from BELOW)!!!Turn down the lights, relax, and enjoy this film, but remember to temper the message at the end of this movie with a slice of raspberry pie! For ... you about to enter ... THE TWILIGHT ZONE!!!

Movie starts off with a youngish (man and woman) couple (mid 30s) driving to a wedding.It's late night, so the guy pulls up at a motel. He does this for two reasons. A) His girlfriend wants sex and B) He is tired. Signing in to their room, they encounter a nervous motel owner.Later, on the bed, the couple try to have sex. He can't get an erection so he goes off to get a coffee. While he drinks his coffee he meets a black guy who goes on about stuff from the Bible.We're now 25 minutes in. Bored yet? Because I was.In between all this we see other characters. One older woman, one blonde woman late 30s, some other guy, and another guy who's a security guard. By the way we learn the security guard gets fired.The movie still doesn't make any sense and we're already 45 minutes in.Bored yet? Jeez, I was!! Back to the motel, this other blonde woman walks through the darkened bedroom while the couple are sleeping. Well, he's awake, his girlfriend is sleeping...Who was the woman and why did she do that? No clues...Still bored? YES! Because nothing of any interest in happening...Over 55 minutes in, AT THIS STAGE I GAVE UP. Awful film, I skipped through to the end, and it still made no sense.Probably one of the worst films of 2010. I can only guess all the 10s it's received have been from people involved in the movie.AVOID!!