What Lies Beneath

Rating: 8/10 (6 August 2018)

The presence of Richard Jenkins in the opening sequence suggested that we were going to get something classier than the usual teenage slasher nonsense; but for quite a while the ghoulish build up seemed conventional enough.
The cheerful amorality of the bad guys' manipulation of the likeable youngsters chosen to be their victims at first roused my indignation; but as all is eventually revealed I became increasingly relieved that the emphasis was going to be on providing an ingenious and well thought-out resolution rather than just the usual welter of blood. For which I was very grateful.