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The Thing Below/keep it below like in the sewer


This film sucks.

It takes recycled footage from other films, Virus most notable, and trys to make a movie using all the typical cliches of all the alien, remote location, trapped with the beast, no rescue, government coverup, films of the last 10-20 years and shoves it all together in this bad acted, poorly done CGI mess of a wannabe thriller.

Who in their right mind would cast Baywatch has been Billy Warlock in a leading role? The only way to get this film a R rating was to include the senseless nude scene that did nothing to develop the plot. If you've ever seen the original Thing and Carpenter's remake, Virus, Sometimes they come back for more, or any other film such as these, watch those instead of this load of horse $hit that fell off the truck.

Not worth watching and I wish I could my dollar back from where I rented it from.

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"It takes recycled footage from other films,"

I was really stunned to see this because I have never seen this movie before but there was a scene in the movie that I know I've seen before. When the brother was recalling how it was happening, and they were showing a scene of a girl with black eyes who said, "It's under my skin!" and tried to up the radiation... That came from another movie I saw! I can't even find it right now but I remember it was from a movie where the cast went into an old underground bunker or something of the sort but a creature got loose where it'd take over people's bodies and they'd start turning to slime somehow.

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it was from Deep Evil (2004) - even called out "Cole"

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My wife and I hardly ever listen to critics who give movies bad reviews. This is only because usually, the reviewer is so out of touch with reality they lack the mental capacity to properly digest a film for the message.

However, I really wish I would have looked here first before wasting 30 miuntes of my life on this awful scrap of celuloid.

That's right; we turned it off after less than half an hour.

And from what we actually suffered through, it came as no suprise that the director is a wannabe porn maker. (I know, I read that he has since disowned the film.) But, reusing the same scenes, even mirroring them to make them look different, my first thought was, "Is this guy twelve?"

That, added to the bad acting, it looked as though some poor schmoe took pity on the director and bought his sob story about wanting to make a serious film.

Too bad. The concept is workable, but this film just didn't cut it.

If you do want to see this film, may I recomend a HAS-MAT suit?

"Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"

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"Who's the more foolish; The fool, or the fool who follows it?"

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Movie was good.

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NO IT WASN'T!

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i thought life was terrible but then... I saw this beautiful spectacle of cinematography!!! Oh god, acting was amazing, script fantastic and the effects visually stunning! I thought i was lost but now i am SAVED!!!!

no jk not that bad of a movie for tv and a really hot girl shows her b oobies and puts oil on em and waves them around

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YES IT WAS!

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The Movie is shoddy because the studio kept on asking Directo Jim wynorski to change a lot of stuff and they kept on making him re shoot and Do rediculous set and script changes.

Infuriated Jim wynorski walked out/was fired halfway through becaus he couldnt take thier rediculous demands. a second director was sent in to patch it togeahter and jim wynorski credited himself under his most popular alias Jay andrews. I'm glad he left the production this traumatized him

blame the studio no the director I was told by him over the internet to not watch this movie!

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