Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfieffer are a couple in a beautiful house haunted by a ghost. Bob Zemeckis is a great director but this is one of his lesser efforts. There is nothing really wrong with the film except looking at the marquee names one would have expected more. It has ghosts, jump scares and spooky music- even great locations but it is better suited as a film made by a first time director not the guy who made Back to the future or Contact. Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfieffer add allure to the star cast but you can clearly see by their motions they are pondering on when the cheque will clear.

This movie is very chilling, it's one of the mystery/horror movies that keep you hooked to the very end. And that's what "What Lies Beneath" did for me.The story goes like this, a woman named claire Spencer has the life she has always wanted, a nice house, a good husband, and a daughter. One day her daughter goes off to college. As time passes by strange things start to happen. Doors are opening, electronics are turning on, things fall and break in the house. Overtime it gets worse, claire starts seeing the figure of a girl in the house and she is convinced that it's a ghost trying to harm her. Others don't really believe her, especially her husband Norman Spencer. Claire wanting to prove of the ghost presence, starts performing rituals and spiritual communications. It works but no one still does not believe her. As memories come flooding back, Claire starts putting the pieces together and it eventually leads to her husband. Who for many years has kept a deep dark secret.Something he has kept hidden has come back. Secrets can come back to haunt you.This is not your ordinary ghost story, this story proves that secrets should not be kept hidden.I like this movie because of the story and the way it slowly plays out. I like the mystery of the story, how claire puts it all together and the creepiness of it all. Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford play their parts really well, and the woman who plays the ghost, Amber Valletta,does a really good and creepy job of it. One night I watched this alone and I couldn't go to sleep, it was that creepy for me.I am giving "What Lies Beneath" a 10. For the story, the creepiness, and deep dark secret that is so well hidden it really surprises you when claire finds out. I wish they would make more movies like this, a good classic ghost story with a mystery behind it. A story about secrets that can come back to haunt you, no matter how hard you try to hide them.

What lies beneath really does make the best out of the material it's given. Michelle Pfeiffer is just awesome in her starring role! I mean she just fits the role so well and really rocks it! And Harrison Ford is great here, he is determined, dramatic, and even scary at times. The suspense and tense energy that runs rampant thought what lies beneath is incredible, it's so creepy and unwatchable at times. Just the music itself will creep underneath your skin. Robert Zemeckis has done it again, he successfully made an entertaining, well acted and well written creepy thriller. Also Pfeiffer and Ford do have good on screen chemistry together, they just work and click during a scene, especially an intimate one. The visuals are great here, and the film is directed and shot very well, great to look at. The script is well written with intelligent dialogue between the main characters. The ending is very satisfying, I liked it, it is creepy, smart, and bone chilling. It's not exactly a big twist, but just a little one. You may see it coming, then again you may not, depends on the viewer. I give what lies beneath an 8/10.

Robert Zemeckis's What Lies Beneath, although a bit melodramatic at times, is a nicely freaky bit of domestic terror, in the vein of Hitchcock. It's a pseudo supernatural thriller that I saw at a very young age, so I have a spooky nostalgia for it, as it scared me in that way that only kids can get, staying with you even as you get older and making whatever film it was that made you feel that way resonate unconditionally for you. Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer play an affluent married couple who are beset by strange paranormal phenomena that may or may not be linked to one of their pasts. Ford is a busy medical professional, away for days at a time working, Pfeiffer the stay at home wife, plagued by creepy voices, noises and bumps in the night when alone in their large mansion, in some nice eerie sequences. Clues lead her to the odd job couple living next door (James Remar and Miranda Otto) but soon it becomes clear the answers won't be as easy or obvious as that, and the cold, clinical nastiness of a thriller that knows what it's doing and won't compromise sets in, freezing us in our seats for a nice jarring third act of unexpected resolution that lets the actors go to some places they haven't ventured in their careers. Ford is calm, cool and barely connected, Pfeiffer is detached and perplexed, and there's fun work from Wendy Crewson, Joe Morton and a ghostly Amber Valetta as well. The dog making a nasty discovery in the backyard pond is a nice moment for me, one I had dreams about for a while after seeing this at probably an all too young age. A nice little package of a thriller; cold, classy, frightening.