The Monster Beneath Us

A Review of an Extremely Weak Horror Movie

If we want to talk about one of the worst films in the horror genre, The Monster Beneath Us is definitely a top contender. This movie is a disaster in every aspect: a nonsensical plot, terrible acting, laughable special effects, and most importantly, it is not scary at all.

The story is supposedly about a haunted house, but the screenplay is so scattered and incoherent that it feels like the writer changed direction halfway through. The characters have no depth, and their actions make no sense, so much so that the audience doesn't care about their fate at all.

The acting in this film is on the level of a school play. The dialogues are artificial and exhausting, and even in scenes that are supposed to be the peak of horror, the actors react as if they are reading a promotional text message! In one so-called scary scene, the main character stares in terror at a chair, but absolutely nothing happens.

The special effects are so weak that they look like they were made with a free mobile app. The monsters (if they can even be called that) are so poorly designed that they resemble characters from an old video game. The sound design doesn't create any sense of tension and only serves to annoy the audience.

And the most important point: this movie is not scary at all. There are no proper jump scares, no chilling atmosphere, and not a single scene that makes the audience feel uneasy. In fact, the only feeling viewers will have after watching this film is frustration over wasted time.

In the end, The Monster Beneath Us is not just a bad horror movie-it's a bad movie in any genre. If you're looking for a disappointing cinematic experience and want to waste your time, this is the perfect choice!

Beautiful location and sets, but completely empty ending. No explanation as to what happened or is happening throughout the movie. Mildly spooky but not scary and used poor CGI. Lastly, the "son" is quite obviously a girl actress and so I assumed it would play into the story by the end, no luck. Nothing against Trans but this was like having Wesley Snipes play Cinderella, very distracting. So much potential to create a Gothic movie with excellent scenery and editing but a tot lack of plot and character development or at least explanation makes the movie come up way short of feeling like a complete production.

This is simply a gem of a production...and what's not to love about a nineteenth century horror set in olde Yorkshire!

The cast are fab, as is the setting and lighting.

Horror normally, probably not one of my fave genres either and so it has to be a great story, well acted, and sufficiently suspenseful to keep me engaged.

Hopefully going to take the Mrs to see this one too and looking forward to seeing what she thinks of it as well. I think she will love it, as will most fans of the genre.

Here's hoping for more new films like this going forwards instead of pointless remakes and super hero saturation.

What were they thinking? Gothic horror can be dreary but something has to happen eventually. And if you decide to have a literal monster in your film, use something real, something genuinely unnerving, instead of an extremely poor cgi asset from a rejected PS2 game, that can barely even move.

The film also cannot justify its runtime. It might have made a half decent short film, but this is a long, boring sleep-enhancer. Watch The Others to see how a tense single mother period drama can be done effectively.

There are good ways to have a character wander around the same corridor over and over again to build tension. But not here.

Flatly acted and at the bottom of a very long list of better spooky movies. Sadly, this was dry, lifeless nonsense.

This beautifully shot film is: pointless, witless, as motionless to the eye as air (i.e., glaciers seem rapid in pace), without a soul, more cryptic than Sasquatch, an empty hot air balloon that lands nowhere, and just positively knickers. It is like reading the first and last page of an H. P. Lovecraft novel over and over and over. I am so glad that someone has given this a decent rating because it is clear that the filmmakers have expended tremendous energy in gestating this project that in my opinion is stillborn. As someone with a film degree, I think a class discussion on this would be quite like discussing American politics on Reddit. Cheers!