In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine USS Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell-shocked crew, trapped together in the sub's narrow corridors and constricted spaces, this is about to become a journey into the sensory delusions, mental deceptions and runaway fears that lurk just below the surface of the ocean.
Matthew Davis Bruce Greenwood Olivia Williams Zach Galifianakis Scott Foley Holt McCallany Nick Chinlund Jason Flemyng Dexter Fletcher Andrew Howard Christopher Fairbank Matthew Leitch Jonathan Hartman David Twohy Chuck Ellsworth Crispin Layfield Sebastian Knapp Max Casali Alexis Conran Gary Broadway Tim Plester Craig Blake Mitchell Barnett David Crow Nick Hobbs Chris Bridgeman Paul Bayfield Gary Bunn John Colton Show All…
Patrick Cyccone Jr. Scott Martin Gershin Michael Keller Peter Lindsay Kerry Ann Carmean Tom Ozanich Caron Weidner Branden Spencer Craig S. Jaeger Mark Choi Brian Fredrickson Peter Zinda Eric Flickinger Harry Cohen Bryan Bowen Alan Rankin
Kirotut sielut, Abîmes, Submersos, Ciśnienie, Proteus, ビロウ, Sumergidos, Abimes, Below - Da unten hört dich niemand schreien, Глубина, Merülés a félelembe, Below - Maldição Submersa, 深层恐惧, Hlubina, התחתית, Τρόμος στα βάθη της θάλασσας, Diptekiler, Под повърхността, 빌로우, L'abîme, Глибина, Ispod površine, ดิ่งลึกหลอนสยอง, Pod gladino, 鬼潛艇, Fantomele adâncurilor, Dưới Đáy Biển
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USAR
Germany16
PortugalM/16
Czechia15+
Russia
Hungary16
FranceU
FinlandK-15
JapanG
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Going into this movie, I had no idea what to expect. The one and only Jacob recommended this to me and I immediately jumped in just knowing the length of the film. With such an approach, you may either end up angry or having an incredible experience.
One thing that surprised me was the scope of the film. Despite the fact this is in many ways a low-budget film, I was still amazed by how much those rainy scenes, the flashbacks about the wreck, and the submarine scene still holds up nearly two decades later. In terms of claustrophobia, the film balances that well with the early 00s Supernatural aspects. While the jump scares and scary moments aren't the best,…
A psychological horror set on a submarine? Colour me intrigued. Great setting and camera work, but I was expecting a few more twists, as the ones we got you could see from a mile away. It was co-written by Darren Aronofsky no less. The exterior shots hold up pretty well. Maybe the sci-fi elements that got edited out during rewrites would’ve made a more entertaining film.
Actually, better than average. I like the twist. The characters were well-created and though some appeared for only a short time, they were well-characterized for you to remember who they were. The cinematography was better than what I expected from a suspenseful film, there’s a claustrophobic feeling at times but the camerawork is excellent in getting in and around the various cabins so that there's never really an idle moment in the fast moving story.
Still, the aspects of the story that fail to really come off are the hauntings, including many things that can't be rationally explained but still add considerably to the overall spooky atmosphere of the story though. That’s the major flaw, in addition to some awkward…
Cinematic Time Capsule
2002 Marathon - Film #187
”You hear a lot of strange things at depth”
A ‘haunted house’ submarine movie that’s directed by David Twohy and co-written by Darren Aronofsky!?!
How did I not know about this?!?!
I read online that Dimension wanted David Twohy to make several changes in order to achieve a PG-13 rating. When he refused they scuttled the film with an unsupported release and then quickly proceeded to bury it at sea.
What a shame, because this happens to be a nice moody, tense and atmosperic example of how talented filmmakers can achieve a lot with just a little.
BONUS POINTS for Zach Galifianakis in one of his earliest roles, as the perfectly cast Weird Wally…
”Accidents happen, right?”
"Wally...you are so outta bounds with that sh!t."
Yo, this one haunted-a$$ movie!
1% German ghosts, 1% American ghosts, 3% British ghosts...
& the other 90%?
A fkn-ton of horrendous sexist pejoratives that died in the 20th century.
Still entertaining, tho.
& Clearly I didn't know who Zach Galifianakis was whenever I first saw Below bc it was like "woah Galifianakis in this? Fun cameo 😍...oh, wait. No, he's in this in this, like, major supporting cast in this."
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on paper, this is U-571 meets Event Horizon, but it plays out more like Masterpiece Theater doing Ghost Ship — the setting is great, as is its premise, but Twohy is just too restrained (which is amusing considering this is the R rated cut he went to war with the Weinsteins on)
Like space horror and other (on top of the) sea horror, using a submarine as a setting for death and terror is such a natural fit. The claustrophobia, the isolation, and jamming everyone together like they're stranded in a cabin in a blizzard: it really does bring in parts of so many other subgenres and the synergy is fantastic.
There's a good cast here, especially for horror. Bruce Greenwood is one of those guys I'm always happy to see show up in a movie. The douchebag ex-bf in Legally Blonde handles himself quite well, too.
The CGI is pretty terrible (2002 gonna 2002, y'all), but it's mostly mechanical, which looks about the least bad of bad CGI.
This was a solid movie! There were some nice headfakes, and I didn't know where it was going for quite a while. Thanks to MAGE and HorrorBrain for reviewing it first!
It’s nice to know that the goon from Batman 89 was still getting work at this point.
A good suspense thriller
With an amazing cast
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A classic, gothic haunted houser that just so happens to be set on a WWII submarine, David Twohy's film should be liked more than it is...but then again, it should also be better than it is too...
A US submarine is rerouted to pick up three surviovors of a destroyed hospital ship deep into WWII. However after finding out that one of the survivors is a German, things start to go spectacularly wrong for the crew of the USS Tiger Shark and its not long before they begin to suspect that their boat is haunted...
Its cast well, as most of Twohy's films are - Bruce Greenwood, Holt McCallany, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, even a young Zack Galifinakis,…
🎃🕯 A VERY WALLEY HALLOWEEN '22 – FILM #1 🦇🎃
"I don’t believe we’re alone down here."
Unquestionably a new personal favorite, at least in terms of semi-niche WWII horror fair. Helmed with total confidence and style by David Twohy and dependably scripted by him, Lucas Sussman, and producer Darren Aronofsky, Below hits the haunted seas at full speed, briskly escalating the pace and stakes well before the end of the first act. And it sure as hell doesn’t stop there. Where the writing takes this voyage of the damned is to several fathoms of sustained terror. No matter the depth, each dynamic is developed enough to guarantee plenty of sturdy drama from chapter to chapter, all of which magnify…
David Twohy crops up again, this time handed this gig after the success of Pitch Black.
A claustrophobic WW2 submarine thriller with a light dusting of the supernatural, This has Bruce Greenwood's Lieutenant Brice (of the USS Tiger Shark) pick up a group of survivors from a sunken hospital ship thought downed by a German U-boat. Once aboard tensions mount as the superstitious crew dont take kindly to the presence of Olivia Williams nurse, exacerbated further when they find out one of the survivors is a German PoW.
It's revealed by a cagey Brice that the original subs commander (Winters) recently died during an accident after an attack, leaving him to assume control. Plagued by a German destroyer dropping depth…
