Beneath the Mississippi

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Mike Nyman, Ariadne Shaffer, and Nick Murray in Beneath the Mississippi (2008)

A documentary filmmaker and her crew fight the elements and try to cope with their fears as they seek to understand the strange mystery of a flooded island where hundreds have died.A documentary filmmaker and her crew fight the elements and try to cope with their fears as they seek to understand the strange mystery of a flooded island where hundreds have died.A documentary filmmaker and her crew fight the elements and try to cope with their fears as they seek to understand the strange mystery of a flooded island where hundreds have died.

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2.6/10

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1/10

Truly abominable

BENEATH THE MISSISSIPPI is a criminal enterprise when it comes to film-making. By that, I mean it's criminally bad, and without a doubt one of the worst ever films I've had the misfortune to watch. It makes the likes of TROLL 2 look like an Oscar-winning masterpiece by comparison. This is nothing more than an amateur BLAIR WITCH PROJECT copy made without one tenth of the skill that went into that movie.

The story sees a documentary film-maker and her crew travelling to a remote area of the Mississippi to investigate some weird historical deaths. It soon transpires that this is nothing more than an exercise in traipsing around while nothing happens other than the director plays with various features on his camera. Not a second goes by without dodgy editing, random strobe lighting, or distorted picture and sound effects. It gets distracting and tiresome about two minutes in.

In addition, this is a film that plays out virtually without dialogue so it becomes indescribably boring before long. The running time is near two hours which is the most inexplicable thing about it; surely this kind of trash should be over and done with as soon as possible, not dragged out endlessly? It really is an abomination of film-making.