Something Beneath

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Something Beneath
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DVD cover
Directed byDavid Winning
Written byMark Mullin
Ethlie Ann Vare
David Winning
Produced byPhyllis Laing
StarringKevin Sorbo
Natalie Brown
Brendan Beiser
CinematographyBrenton Spencer
Edited byMark Sanders
Music byMichael Richard Plowman
Production
companies
RHI Entertainment
Buffalo Gal Pictures
Hallmark Entertainment
Paquin Films
Sci Fi Pictures
Distributed byTime Warner Cable
Release date
  • April 26, 2007 (2007-04-26) (Houston Film Festival)
  • October 21, 2007 (2007-10-21) (Canada)
Running time
90 minutes [1]
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Something Beneath is a 2007 Canadian horror thriller film directed by David Winning and starring Kevin Sorbo, Natalie Brown and Brendan Beiser.[2] It is the 5th film in the Maneater Series.

Summary[]

On the construction site for Cedar Gates Conference Center (CGCC), Dutch comes into contact with some black slime coming up from the newly broken ground. He hallucinates that Bob (whose wife is sleeping with Dutch) and several others are chasing him down in bulldozers until he trips and is impaled on some exposed rebar—his death attributed to drinking. One year later: An ecological conference is being held at the newly opened CGCC, led by the Episcopalian priest Father Douglas Middleton. He meets CGCC manager Symes and event coordinator Khali Spence. Middleton’s friend and keynote speaker Eugene Herman, is practicing his speech in the woods nearby, when he is pulled into a pit of slime and suffocated by an unseen creature. The next day Middleton alerts Khali to his friends disappearance so CGCC Chief of Security, Jackson Deadmarsh, and her check Eugene’s room. They find Reggie and Hank (maintenance men), searching for an undiscovered pipe blockage that has been causing hotel-wide problems, but they haven’t seen Eugene. Deadmarsh and his assistant, Tony, search the woods and eventually find Eugene's body, his face badly contorted and disfigured.

Meanwhile, Middleton searches elsewhere due to his troubled history with Deadmarsh and encounters Mikaela Strovsky, an entitled celebrity/model, who is running after her dog, Cleopatra. She is covered in the black slime and tells the hotel staff to find her dog so she can return to her room to clean up and record a vlog. While recording, she hallucinates an old, eyeless woman in her room's mirror's and eventually smashes them all, violently cutting her wrists. Manuela, a housekeeping employee, finds Mikaela dead in her room and her death is labeled a suicide. Symes forbids Khali from calling the police right away and she eventually comes in contact with some black slime herself. She hallucinates she's being chased by the dog that attacked her as a child and she tries to use her grandmother's necklace for protection but Middleton wakes her from the hallucination, revealing the dog to only be Cleopatra. It's revealed in a flashback Khali's necklace was blessed with a prayer from the Ojibwe, her grandmother's people. Reggie and Hank enter the sewers under CGCC where they find a massive growth of black slime that eats them both. Father Middleton and Khali encounter Dr. Connolly, who’s now living in the woods and continuing his research into the slime. He believes it’s a single organism with a hive mind, comparing it to an ant colony, that has attacked when its habitat was threatened by the building of the CGCC, but this organism can reproduce at alarming rates.

Back at hotel, Deadmarsh views the vlog that Mikaela was recording and sees a slime covered creature crawl out of her bathtub as she’s smashing the mirrors. He and Tony go into the sewers to look for Reggie and Hank. Symes is livid that all the guests of CGCC are evacuating themselves but begins hallucinating when he comes into contact with the slime. He follows Deadmarsh and Tony into the sewers and tries attacking them, but Tony shoots him. Tony and Deadmarsh are both slimed by this point and Tony hallucinates that Symes comes back to life. Deadmarsh finds his body as Connolly, Middleton, and Khali enter the sewer and find him. Together, they find Reggie and Hank's body and discover the slime is starting to seal up all exits. Deadmarsh sacrifices himself so the others can escape, setting aflame the methane leaking out from the sewer walls after the others are behind a sealed metal door. They come across the heart of the creature including its mouth and Connolly falls into it. Middleton saves Khali as she is about to fall in and she is able to use her grandmother's necklace to calm the creature by reciting the Ojibwe prayer. They escape and Middleton reconnects with Khali at the ambulance and confesses his hallucination was that she fell into the creature and died. He asks her to leave with him on his next mission and she agrees; they kiss.

Cast[]

  • Kevin Sorbo — Father Douglas Middleton
  • Gordon Tanner — Symes, the manager of Cedar Gates Conference Center (CGCC)
  • Natalie Brown — Khali Spence, events coordinator for Cedar Gates Conference Center; her grandmother was Ojibwe and she wears her necklace supposedly traditional Anishinaabe
  • — Aimee, Khali's assistant
  • Peter MacNeill — Jackson Deadmarsh, CGCC Head of Security; was a former chief of police in Oregon but was involved in a scandal when Father Middleton sued him for the wrongful arrest and eventual execution of a young Native American man on false evidence
  • Blake Taylor — Reggie, head maintenance for CGCC
  • — Hank, Reggie's assistant
  • — Mikaela Strovsky, a stuck-up celebrity/model attending the conference for the clout of being an environmentalist; "last month's cover of Vogue"
  • — Lowell Kent, the property developer for Cedar Gates Conference Center, bound to a wheelchair and on oxygen
  • Brendan Beiser — Dr. Connolly, a scientist who warns Kent of the dangers of building on the grounds
  • — Tony, Deadmarsh's assistant
  • — Eugene Herman, keynote speaker for the conference; severely asthmatic
  • — Jim Bailey
  • — Khali's Grandmother
  • — Young Khali
  • — Dutch, a construction worker and the first victim of the slime though his death is labeled an accident
  • — Construction Foreman
  • — Backpacking Hippie
  • — Paramedic
  • — Clerk
  • — Hard Hat
  • — Sheik Abdula
  • — Manuela, a young housekeeping employee for CGCC
  • — Ajax
  • — Mr. Briggs
  • — Woman in the mirror (from Mikaela's hallucination)
  • David Winning — Beast in the Woods / Angry Arab guest / TV-announcer

Production[]

The movie was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in November 2006.[3] In a 2007 FearNet interview, Sorbo described it as “sort of a flip back to the ‘50s creature films.”[4]

Release[]

The film premiered on 26 April 2007 as part of the Houston Film Festival and was than chapter of the Rhode Island International Film Festival on 11 August 2007.[5]

Home media[]

The film was released on DVD by RHI Entertainment on September 9, 2008 and produced for television originally by Genius Entertainment. [1] [6]

It was released on DVD in Germany February 25, 2010, under the title “Endstation: Angriff aus dem Untergrund”.[7]"

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Something Beneath (DVD) (Motion Picture). RHI Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 9781594449468. OCLC 250695814. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  2. ^ DVD Verdict Archived 2010-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Hercules Vs. Slime Monster in Something Beneath
  4. ^ FearNet interview with Kevin Sorbo 2007
  5. ^ "DVD REVIEW: SOMETHING BENEATH". Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
  6. ^ DVD Talk
  7. ^ Eurovideo German DVD release[permanent dead link]

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