Below: Critic Reviews

Directed by David Twohy with the same great eye for eerie understatement that he brought to Pitch Black.

Below may not mark Mr. Twohy's emergence into the mainstream, but his promise remains undiminished.

It's not original enough.

An enjoyable, if occasionally flawed, experiment.

With more character development this might have been an eerie thriller; with better payoffs, it could have been a thinking man's monster movie.

Though the genre collisions ... are as jarring as the sound design, the cumulative effect is one of claustrophobic creepiness.

The reason Below gets beneath your skin is that the scriptwriters know what most current horror filmmakers never learned: Fear is an emotion, not a visceral response.

Becomes swamped early on and spends the rest of its running time dragging itself to Davy Jones' Locker, and us along with it.

Below has ambitions to be better than average, but doesn't pull itself together and insist on realizing them.

Twohy pulls all the strings to create an inventive genre piece.

...begins with promise, but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot.

While the mystery surrounding the nature of the boat's malediction remains intriguing enough to sustain mild interest, the picture refuses to offer much accompanying sustenance in the way of characterization, humor or plain old popcorn fun.

It's basically an overlong episode of Tales from the Crypt.

This is an exercise in chilling style, and Twohy films the sub, inside and out, with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery.

While director David Twohy arguably doesn't mine the premise for all it's worth, he gets enough out of it to make it an effective Halloween treat.

A movie that plays like a gimmick, reliant upon one's appreciation of movie genres ranging from film noir to ghost stories rather than a tale that unfolds to its own rhythms and logic.

If Below had been released in 1943 -- the year of its story -- it would have come in at an agile 70 minutes instead of a protracted 104.

A subtly eerie mood piece.

A well-crafted and criminally underrated Underwater Ghost Story.

O roteiro tem sua parcela de furos e absurdos, mas a boa direcao de Twohy consegue manter o clima de tensao por boa parte do tempo.

An underappreciated little film that would go down well as part of a triple bill on video for some undemanding entertainment.

Half Submarine flick, Half Ghost Story, All in one criminally neglected film