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Something Beneath | 
 enlarge | Director: David Winning
Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Peter Macneill, Brendan Beiser
Studio: Genius Products (TVN)
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 37275
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: GEPD80854D
UPC: 796019808545
EAN: 0796019808545
ASIN: B0018PH3JC
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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Product Description
When a conference center is developed despite warnings that the grounds are toxic, guests start complaining that strange events are taking place. Conference coordinator Khali (Natalie Brown, Dawn of the Dead) is accosted by a rogue German Shepherd the very same one that attacked her when she was just a child. How can this be? As slime amasses on the lake front and seeps into rooms, priest Douglas Middleton (Kevin Sorbo, Hercules) discovers that the slime is actually a massive cellular organism living in the sewer system highly intelligent, and capable of inducing fearful hallucinations in its victims. Panic spreads and so does the slime pulsating, dripping, and moving rapidly.
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Creepy October 21, 2008
DazzleDoll67 (Ontario Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok maybe a little far fetched but damn, Kevin Sorbo? Really do I need to say more? The price was right. First time I have seen it when it arrived so really not a big review at this point.
Good movie for what it is! September 12, 2008
R. Sorrow (Georgia USA)
Something Beneath is a good movie,for what it is. Kevin Sorbo does a good job playing the priest. It wasn't as scary as you might think it is. The one thing I don't like is the packaging of the dvd. I was told that the version released in Australia has a picture of Sorbo on the cover. I would have much preferred that to the cover of the US release-I don't even remember that scene being in the movie!
 A good movie July 29, 2008
Mara Lucia Giangiardi (São Paulo, Brazil)
I've watched this movie and I think it's a good horror thriller. Kevin Sorbo - as usual- is great and the story is interesting!
 Not bad for a Sci-Fi Original. May 30, 2008
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Something Beneath (David Winning, 2007)
Why do I keep watching Sci-Fi Channel Original Movies? Simple. Ten years ago, Sci-Fi Channel picked up Cube, a movie that had been overlooked for cinematic distribution in America. Cube has gone on to be the Sci-Fi Channel's greatest success story, still garnering impressive ratings when it shows up, and picking up relatively awe-inspiring DVD rental figures. I keep waiting for the next Cube. And so I keep watching Sci-Fi Channel Original Movies. Every once in a while, I get a mildly nice surprise. Something Beneath is not, by any standards, the next Cube, but it's the closest Sci-Fi Channel have come in quite a while.
The story opens on the construction site of a conference center, during which a construction worker is killed. Fast-forward a year, the conference center is open and on the verge of holding its first conference, an environmental summit. Trying to hold everything together on the conference end is Douglas Middleton (Kevin Sorbo), a laid back priest whose main concern is trying to keep his keynote speaker, the public-speaking-challenged Eugene (Capote's Rob McLoughlin), safe from celebutante Mikaela Strovsky (The Plague's Brittany Scobie), who believes she should be the keynote speaker. Things are a little crazier on the center's end, though-- they seem to be plagued not only with plumbing problems of epidemic proportions, but a staff who range from the incompetent brown-nosers to the useless stoners. The only one of any worth whatsoever is Khali Spence (Natalie Brown of Dawn of the Dead), who quickly forms a united front with Middleton in trying to keep the whole conference from imploding. Things get complicated when Eugene is found dead in the woods a short way from the building.
On the surface, this is just another dumb ecohorror flick, but this is unlike any ecohorror flick I've ever seen. For one thing, the writers-- Ethlie Ann Vare, David Winning (the two of whom worked together previously on Andromeda), and Mark Mullin (Eye of the Beast)-- never treat it as an ecohorror flick. That alone is refreshing, and sends this way above the average for the genre. What they do treat it as can sometimes be confusing, as the flick veers from romance to murder mystery to satire to monster movie to just about everything else under the sun, but it never stumbles into the usual message-laden ecohorror tropes. And really, the biggest surprise of the movie: who knew Kevin Sorbo could actually act? All these years I've passed him off as another Schwarzenegger wannabe, now all the sudden he shows chops. Sorbo and Brown have a natural, easy chemistry between them, and it works. As well, the parts of the movie that are supposed to be funny are actually funny, even if the parts that are supposed to make you jump don't, really. And the big bad guy is really silly, when we finally get to the big reveal, and the CGI is pretty badly done, but hey, it's a monster movie. What, you were expecting the Lord of the Rings?
All in all, it's a fun little movie, definitely worth killing two hours with if you're in the mood for that sort of thing. ***
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