What Lies Beneath (2000)

A couple appear to be happily married on the surface but when the wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) begins seeing and hearing ghostly images in their home, her husband (Harrison Ford) suspects it is her imagination. But it soon becomes clear that the images are real and threaten to destroy their marriage. Directed by Robert Zemeckis (DEATH BECOMES HER), this supernatural horror film is highly uneven. It takes a good forty minutes before it gets a rhythm going and Zemeckis's pacing drags the movie down more often than not. This dismal momentum dissipates the film's tension which is fatal in a horror/thriller. A tighter screenplay would have helped but fortunately the film has Ford and Pfeiffer, who show how real movie stars can often bolster weak material. As a director, Zemeckis's direction is frequently imitative as he apes Hitchcock and even the film's composer Alan Silvestri borrows from composer Bernard Herrmann. With Diana Scarwid, James Remar, Miranda Otto, Joe Morton and Wendy Crewson.