Beneath (2007)

Director:

Dagen Merrill

Writers:

Kevin Burke (writer)
Dagen Merrill (writer)

Release Date:

7 August 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Terror lives below

Plot:

Christy (Zehetner) returns to her hometown years after a car accident that disfigured her older sister. Haunted by the accident in which she was the driver, she learns that her worst nightmares have either come true ... or are about to.

Plot Keywords:

Vision | Car Accident | Buried Alive | Borderline Personality Disorder | Murder

Cast

Nora Zehetner	...	Christy Wescot
Brenna O'Brien	...	Christy at 14 years
Carly Pope	...	Vanessa Locke
Don S. Davis	...	Joseph
Beatrice Zeilanger	...	Nun's at Vanessa's funeral
Matthew Settle	...	John
Gabrielle Rose	...	Mrs. Locke
Timothy Paul Perez	...	Dr. Perry (as Tim Perez)
Jessica Amlee	...	Amy Locke
Nicola Anderson	...	Debbie
Eliza Norbury	...	Stark Woman / Claire
Patrick Gilmore	...	Randy
Warren Christie	...	Jeff
Julian Christopher	...	Dr. Cestia (as Julian D. Christopher)
Lynsey Brothers	...	Young Nurse
Gillian Barber	...	Donna
John Emmet Tracy	...	Funeral Home Employee
Tom McBeath	...	Mr. Wells
Leedine Lah	...	Hurried Nurse
Bruno Verdoni	...	Coroner Hank
Heather Feeney	...	Vanessa Dark
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Brian Mulligan	...	Zeke

Directed by
Dagen Merrill

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Kevin Burke		writer
Dagen Merrill		writer

Produced by
Sean Covel	....	producer
Troy Craig Poon	....	producer
Christopher Dalton	....	co-executive producer
John Fiedler	....	executive producer
Victor Ho	....	co-producer
David Kaye	....	executive producer
Chris Wyatt	....	producer

Original Music by
John Frizzell
Frederik Wiedmann

Cinematography by
Mike Southon

Production Design by
Tink

Art Direction by
Rick Willoughby

Costume Design by
Heather Douglas

Makeup Department
Calla Syna Dreyer	....	key makeup artist (as Calla Syna Dool)
Corrina Holburn	....	special makeup effects assistant
Shauna Magrath	....	special makeup effects artist
Bill Terezakis	....	special makeup designer
Maureen Terezakis	....	makeup effects producer
Vince Yoshida	....	fabricator

Production Management
Christopher Dalton	....	production supervisor
Victor Ho	....	production manager
Kiki Morris	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
David Heimbecker	....	third assistant director
Victor Landrie	....	second assistant director
Jennifer Lum	....	trainee assistant director
Matthias Mellinghaus	....	first assistant director
Chris Wyatt	....	second unit director

Art Department
Karie Adkens	....	property master
Tyler Jones	....	graphics
Dylan Patti	....	assistant property master

Sound Department
Matthew Sordello	....	sound
Peter Staubli	....	sound effects editor

Special Effects by
Allen Benjamin	....	special effects coordinator
Brant McIlroy	....	special effects

Stunts
Laura Lee Connery	....	stunt double
Kim Howey	....	stunt double
Phillip Mitchell	....	stunts
Jeffrey C. Robinson	....	stunt double
John Wardlow	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Dan Basaraba	....	dolly grip
Glen A. Dickson	....	additional camera operator
Mike Fiedler	....	best boy grip
Mathias Herndl	....	director of photography: second unit
Jesse Keay	....	best boy electric
Morgan Lafleur	....	lamp operator
Martin Nicholas	....	key grip
Michael Wallbank	....	grip

Casting Department
Kerry Barden	....	casting: USA
Lynne Carrow	....	casting: Canada
Melissa Perry	....	casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Jen Howe	....	costume supervisor (as Jennifer Dawson)

Editorial Department
Ray Boniker	....	assistant editor
Gregg Garvin	....	colorist
Cher Hanusiak	....	assistant editor
Grant Myers	....	first assistant editor

Transportation Department
Ian Thompson	....	picture bus wrangler (uncredited)

Other crew
Kelley Baker	....	production accountant
Dale Cornick	....	first assistant accountant
Alix Falkiner	....	assistant location manager
Heather Gittens	....	first assistant production coordinator
Michael David Kaye	....	assistant to producer
Douglas Kirkpatrick	....	production attorney
Blair Miller	....	second assistant coordinator
Eric Moro	....	unit publicist
Susan Nestibo	....	location manager
Darren Robertson	....	playback coordinator
Joyce Sawa	....	production coordinator
Damon Isiah Turner	....	assistant: Mr. Poon
Susan Williams	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• MTV Films
• Paramount Classics

Distributors

• Paramount Vantage (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
• Paramount Home Video (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  dollies

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence and disturbing images.

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:M | Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

MTV Films

Goofs:

Continuity: When Christy Wescot (Nora Zehetner) goes to Amy Locke (Jessica Amlee)'s room for the first night, a camera takes her picture, it's clearly a compact digital camera on a tripod, but it sounds like an SLR camera. Then Amy tells Christy that she has set the camera to take picture every half an hour to picture the dark thing. Later Amy is showing Christy photos taken with the camera from two nights ago, and although earlier we saw the camera was on a tripod, but the frame in the photos change in each picture.

Adams Family Secrets....

Horror flick: girl returns home after traumatic accident earlier in her life and is she possessed and crazy due to the trauma of that accident or is it those around her who are mad? The girl is either a psycho or the only sane one in the asylum. A feast of weird characters are in this play quite apart from the lead. There is the Bett Davis type housekeeper, the child who sees dead people or something like that; there is the sinister male in the house and lets' not forget the deformed and deceased ugly sister who may still be with us....etc Throw in the illusions being suffered by our main star and add in multi layers of other complications then beneath goes even deeper. I almost turned this off a few times only because it had become too confusing, though ultimately all is mostly explained and there are some decent moments. 5/10