Beneath the Darkness
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Our next must-miss candidate of the week is Beneath the Darkness, which stars Dennis Quaid as Ely Vaughn, a mortician in the small town of Smithville, Texas. Death also pervades this film as ever since his wife died two years earlier, the locals have been spreading stories of supernatural goings on at Ely’s mansion (which, naturally, doubles up as a funeral home).
And when his high school friends Travis (Tony Oller), Abby (Aimee Teegarden), Brian (Stephen Lunsford) and Danny (Devon Werkheiser) decide to investigate, they are, of course, shocked to discover a long-hidden secret. Ely is not what he seems.
It sure sounds hackneyed and you’d do well to find a critic who would disagree. “Doesn’t even have the pulse-pounding excitement of a second-tier Scooby-Doo mystery,” writes The Village Voice, getting in an early claim for zinger of the year. Slant was equally unimpressed: “Overly expository dialogue abounds, as do questionable filmmaking choices and plenty of stupidly unconvincing actions taken on the part of the film’s characters.” By the sounds of it, Dennis Quaid may never quite recover from being involved in this kind of darkness.
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