TheLittleSongbird I saw The Thing Below as, regardless of a movie's reputation, genre, age or how it looks, I've always believed in giving movies a fair chance. I had nothing else to do so I went ahead and watched it anyway. Having sat through the whole thing, I honestly wish I hadn't and am surprised that I even made it to the end. Even when giving it a fair chance, The Thing Below is still one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time, can't even remember the last time when I saw a movie with no redeeming values whatsoever, and possibly even ever. An obvious starting point in summing up what was wrong with The Thing Below(which is enough to fill an essay on how not to make a movie) would be the technical values. The interiors and lighting look very drab and the editing choppy. There are scenes as well that look as though they were edited from other movies and very clumsily too. The special effects actually look as though they were thrown into the movie at last minute through desperation with a very unfinished look to them. Other commentators have said that some of the worst special effects they've ever seen are in The Thing Below, and I really cannot argue against that. The sound effects manage to be both muddied and bizarre, while the music was so dull and generic that I can't even remember it. There is absolutely nothing believable in the dialogue either, there is so much cheesiness and awkwardness that it is enough to make your toes curl. In regards to the story it is highly derivative, but considering that this is hardly the first movie to have this problem I can kind of temporarily forgive it. But the cobbled-together structure, cringe-worthy parody-like approach to scenes, sluggish pacing and a complete lack of atmosphere, suspense and thrills I cannot forgive. Every character is underwritten and obnoxious, even the beginning had scientists behaving in a mind-numbingly stupid way. The titular monster was not menacing or memorable in the slightest, the movie doing absolutely nothing to develop it, its terrible design being the least of its problems. While a lot of the actors don't seem to have a clue what type of movie they are in, throughout there is a very strange mix of over-earnestness and disengaged blandness and it was really painful to sit through. To conclude, an extremely poor movie with nothing to recommend at all. 0/10 Bethany Cox

PeterGriffinLives I watched this movie (well, most of it) after actually making the mistake of PAYING for it at the rental store. To explain my summary, a pearl is formed when something irritating (a grain of sand, for instance) gets into an oyster's shell, and the oyster lays down more and more layers of mother of pearl onto the particle, transforming it into the beautiful object we can wear as jewelry. This movie went the other way: a beautiful grain of an idea slowly covered with layer after layer of crap.SPOILERS AHEAD The idea: The Sea Ghost is an oil rig drilling into the ocean floor. It's top-secret mission: attempting to reach a new source of energy at the planet's core. Drilling all the way to the core doesn't exactly make sense, but since geothermal power is a real concept this is an acceptable mistake. At 15 miles down (about halfway through the crust) they hit a cave, a cave with something living in it. This is great, because if you know your science, this tiny nugget of information has all kinds of frightening implications. If an organism were living 15 miles down (WAY deeper than any known cave systems) it most likely has been isolated for hundreds of millions of years. It may even have self-generated on its own, completely independent of life above. This organism would be as alien as any extraterrestrial, and none of our knowledge of life as we know it would apply to the new creature. While no known creature can get inside your head and make you see things, it has already been established that this thing is NOT any "known creature." This could have been scary, and I mean HP Lovecraft scary!Unfortunately, it isn't. SPOILERS END HERE"The Thing Below" suffers from bad directing, questionable acting, shots stolen right out of "Virus" and the worst special effects I have ever seen. The CGI is so bad that when I got my only glimpse of the creature, I COULDN'T TELL WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT! Shots of the boat and the Sea Ghost from the outside were so bad I winced every time I saw them. Visual effects should never cause physical pain.

nalies2005 This was such a waste of film, time, and money. I am surprised that some people watched the whole thing. I had to turn it off after the first CGI scene. This film was a complete joke. If you want to waste your time to see how bad it truly is, then trick somebody else into renting it for you and try not to waste your own money (trust me, you will feel cheated if you do). A word has not been invented to describe how horrible this film truly is. Judging by the story line, this had the potential of being a bad film but it could not even attain such a high level. Acting was horrible and the dialog even worst. This is the kind of film you would recommend to your worst enemies or people you don't like. Stay away from it.

dhreid I am writing this review to warm others about this film. This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Do not waste your time. As a friend of IMDb and my fellow movie commentators, I am sure that if this ever made it to the cinema, it flopped and the makers got rich from the 'bad movie' insurance because the box office receipts could not have exceeded fifty bucks. I am surprised the makers weren't picketed. The CG was just plain awful. There are scarier monsters in Super Mario from Nintendo. Don't even try to put this junk in the league with Leviathon, Deep Star Six, Deep Rising etc. which I would rate as pretty good 'B' films. It just may be worse than 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'. If I mentioned any details, I may be accused of adding a spoiler, but I won't even waste my and your time 'cause this flick is not spoiled, it is rotten to the core. The concept, even though played so many times and to a much higher level of sophistication, may have been OK with much improved CG, dropping the nudie scene, and a script re-write.Don't even waste your time unless you just want to take a peek for curiosity sake. If you do more than peek and hang to the end, I hate to say it, but you gotta get out more.