Review of Beneath the Darkness (2012) by Joe J — 30 Sep 2012

After the death of his wife, funeral director Ely (Dennis Quaid) unexplainably kills a friend of his by burying him alive in his wife's coffin.

Two years later, high school student Travis (Tony Oller) is working on Ely's lawn and one night he and his friends decide to sneak into the house because they're sure it's haunted, and they discover a terrifying secret. Ely catches them and kills one of their friends, but the cops won't believe their story. As they try to investigate further, Ely gets more deranged and becomes even more unhinged, targeting the teens to make sure that his dark secret never gets out.

Why Randy Quaid would give his name to such a disastrous, monotonous, boring film I have no idea. This is the type of drivel you'd find in a made-for-TV afterschool special or something. The storyline has no shocking moments and no surprises, the actors are plain terrible, and you can even tell Quaid isn't liking the movie even though he's acting in it. All in all it was a very painful movie to watch, even with fast forwarding through most of it.