What Lies Beneath is an odd movie. Parts of it work very well --the casting I liked, and some of the scenes were genuinely spooky-- but there is something unpleasantly clumsy about the manner in which this film was assembled. It was as though the director was working with some sort of a checklist, and was stuffing plot twists and surprise endings into places where they didn't quite belong. I don't mind being manhandled and manipulated by a director, but I like the manipulation and manhandling to be just subtle and skillful enough so that I can fall for the story, suspend all disbelief, and still respect myself in the morning. You know that there are problems with a movie when the 'ghost out for revenge' idea is the most believable part of the story. If the script had been a bit more original, this could have been a much better film.

6/10