Beneath (2013)

Six high school seniors celebrating in the middle of a lake find themselves trapped on a rowboat due to a man-eating fish.

Director:

Larry Fessenden

Writers:

Tony Daniel, Brian D. Smith

Stars:

Daniel Zovatto, Bonnie Dennison, Chris Conroy

Cast

Credited cast:
Daniel Zovatto	...	Johnny
Bonnie Dennison	...	Kitty
Chris Conroy	...	Matt
Jon Orsini	...	Simon (as Jonny Orsini)
Griffin Newman	...	Zeke
Mackenzie Rosman	...	Deb
Mark Margolis	...	Mr. Parks
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jack Fessenden	...	Boy in Photo
Graham Reznick	...	Local Newscaster

Storyline

After six teens graduate from high school, they decide to spend one final outing with each other on a rowboat in a lake before they go their separate ways. However, after a man-eating fish kills one of them and destroys their oars, they find themselves trapped in the middle of the lake. Soon afterwards, they realize they have to determine who is to be thrown into the water as a distraction, so the rest of the group can paddle to shore.

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Plot Keywords:

monster | monster fish | creature feature | woman wears a bikini | psychotronic film | 

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Taglines:

Terror lies just below the surface.

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 May 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

A tó szörnye

Filming Locations:

Connecticut, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Chiller Films, Glass Eye Pix

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Three rowboats were used in this movie.

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Connections

References Shark Night 3D (2011)

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Soundtracks

What the F**k Was I Thinking?
Words and Music by Shilpa Ray
Performed by Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers
Permission of Shilpa Ray Music

User Reviews

Absolutely disastrous killer fish effort

Gathering together for one last trip following high school graduation, a group of friends' trip to a small nearby lake forces them to come face-to-face with the lake's monstrous fish creature living there and try to find a way to get out alive.

This one here had just a never-ending series of problems against it that there's not a whole lot of good points for it. The biggest issue with the film is that the film thinks these kinds of callous, vile humans are worthy of being the center-stage for the actions in here, yet none of them are ever worthy of doing anything more than being cannon fodder for the creature as other, smarter characters fought it off. Relying on bullying, cheating, blackmail and deciding that others where more worthy of living and dumping their friends overboard to die with the creature in the lake with them is perhaps the biggest death-knell to each of these characters, especially since all the while there's more than enough tactics on hand to actually fight it off with a gallant effort without resorting to dumping your friends in with the creature that even thinking of resorting to that tactic is really hard to forgive. Of course, the fact that there's one who knows the truth about it but decides against telling the others so that he can win the heart of the group's resident slut doesn't do much to favor this either, and the fact that this one tends to focus solely on the group sitting in the canoe arguing with each other tends to make for wholly uneventful programming with nothing interesting happening. That said, the gore isn't half-bad for the mangled bodies really look like they've been munched on and the creature does have some realistic looks to it since it's kept to a more reasonable size without being too gigantic to live there undetected, and frankly some of the sequences in the later half with the rapidly- drowning boat do get somewhat suspenseful. Overall, though, there's not too much to like here.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.