In the handsome, haunting submarine thriller Below, the usual perils of deep-sea maneuvers are heightened by psychic unraveling.
As ghost stories go, this one is handled with great subtlety and delicacy.
Twohy pulls all the strings to create an inventive genre piece.
Has a slamming first hour. As Ian Wilson's camera darts over Charles Lee's spookily atmospheric sets, enigmas sprout like mushrooms.
An ingenious hybrid of submarine movie and ghost story. And there's a wee bit of "Macbeth" in there too.
With more character development this might have been an eerie thriller; with better payoffs, it could have been a thinking man's monster movie.
A movie where the story, like the sub, sometimes seems to be running blind. In its best moments it can evoke fear, and it does a good job of evoking the claustrophobic terror of a little World War II boat.
