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Goofs Part of Ely's preparation of Danny before the funeral includes adding cosmetics and presumably embalming. During a Jewish funeral, there is a closed casket, which is customary, but it would not have been okay for Ely to add makeup or embalm Danny. Connections References Buffy the Vampire Slayer User reviews 38 Review.

Top review. Bury this six feet under Dennis Quaid as a crazed mortician! What avid genre fanatic wouldn't look forward to this? Together with a theater full of enthusiast people, I expected a tremendously high body count, lots of pitch-black humor, perverted undertones and a totally whack Dennis Quaid one-man-show.

Quaid's character Ely Vaughn, the local undertaker who's still highly admired within the community because he used to be a star quarterback in high school, is indeed an utterly disturbed individual but he's not a maniac on a rampage.

Quite the contrary, in fact, Ely is a very distinguished person and his dark side only comes to the surface when a couple of school kids decide to sniffle around in his private business. The first five minutes of the film, as well as the final fifteen, are very entertaining and exciting, not coincidentally because these are the only times that Quaid gets to showcase his evil grimaces and madman capacities.

Of course nobody believes the teenagers when they're accusing one of the most prominent town members of being a psychopath and obviously the cheerleader beauty will gradually fall for the outsider nerd instead of her cowardly jock boyfriend. And then I'm not even talking about the pointless sub plot of the nerdy kid who still feels responsible for his little sister's death ten years ago and the difficult relationship with his mother.

That was completely irrelevant and downright redundant. In spite of being the big star of the picture, Dennis Quaid actually has surprisingly little screen time and — frankly — nearly not enough chances to illustrate the craziness of his character's persona. This is one giant missed opportunity, to say the least.

Coventry Apr 10, Details Edit. Release date March 22, Kuwait. United States. Official Facebook Official site. Bastrop, Texas, USA. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Buy on. Critic Reviews. Marc Savlov Jan 5, Beneath the Darkness has nada on Don Coscarelli's epic "Phantasm" saga or, for that matter, Norman Bates' clear-eyed if psychotic shenanigans. It's strictly a guilty pleasure. Read full review. John DeFore Jan 6, A teens-in-trouble thriller with barely enough momentum to make it to the end credits.

Performances and script are made-for-cable grade. Mark Olsen Jan 6, Yet that deeply strange and agitated performance by Quaid is the only thing that makes the film remotely bearable. Andrew Schenker Jan 1, Overly expository dialogue abounds throughout Martin Guigui's movie, as do questionable filmmaking choices and plenty of stupidly unconvincing actions taken on the part of the film's characters.

Rex Reed Jan 10, You anticipate every scene before it happens and figure out every secret before it's revealed. Lou Lumenick Jan 6, It's sad to see Quaid in sloppily directed by Martin Guigui dreck like Beneath the Darkness less than a decade after the performance of his career as a closeted married man in "Far From Heaven.

Tim Grierson Jan 3, Unfortunately for Quaid, director Martin Guigui's pathetic thriller doesn't even have the pulse-pounding excitement of a second-tier Scooby-Doo mystery. User Score. Write a Review. User Reviews. Tss Oct 6, It is great to finally see Dennis Quaid play a character with personality again! Lately, it seems like he plays the same scarred, emotionless character, over and over again. It's hard to remember that it's his charisma that made him a star and you can really see it in Beneath The Darkness.

When they trigger a trap he has set for them, Travis is wounded fleeing the scene and Abby disappears. Unable to convince the authorities that Abby is in mortal danger, Travis finds himself locked in a desperate battle of wits with a wily psychotic killer who has little left to lose. Web Site. Played at. Town Center 5 Beneath the Darkness Get Tickets.