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So does that provide any pointer to the way What Lies Beneath turns out? “I can’t tell you that,” grins Pfeiffer, adding however: “For me, this woman starts out a kind of blind, fragile being because of the environment she has created, then ultimately is like a phoenix that rises from the ashes. At the end of the film, she is a braver, stronger and more independent woman.”
“I loved vampire films and then, later on, The Birds, The Exorcist and the first Alien. I have always liked scary films”
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For Zemeckis, however, the frightening parts of the movie are what really make it work. “I think it’s something that was ingrained in the primitive parts of our brain when we were cavemen running around,” he says. “Any time an outside force can change your mood emotionally, whether it makes you laugh, cry or scares you, you get that brief moment of experiencing the fact that you are alive. And that is why we like to experience those things.”
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WHAT LIES BENEATH
A DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox
presentation of an Imagemover production.
Prod: Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke; Exec prod: Joan Bradshaw, Mark Johnson; Dir: Robert Zemeckis; Scr: Clark Gregg, based on a story by Gregg and Sarah Kernochan; Ph: Don Burgess; Prod des: Rick Carter, Jim Teegarden; Cost des: Susie DeSanto; Ed: Arthur Schmidt; Mus: Alan Silvestri.
With Harrison Ford (Norman Spencer), Michelle Pfeiffer (Claire Spencer), Diana Scarwid (Jody), Miranda Otto (Mary Feur), James Remar (Warren Feur), Joe Morton (Dr Drayton), Amber Valletta (Madison Elizabeth Frank), Victoria Birdwell (Beatrice), Katharine Towne (Caitlin Spencer).
International distribution: 20th Century Fox.
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