An enjoyable, if occasionally flawed, experiment. Desson Thomson,Washington Post
Twohy's overwrought, comic-book theatrics work against him, as does the hokey script. Edward Guthmann,San Francisco Chronicle
The reason Below gets beneath your skin is that the scriptwriters know what most current horror filmmakers never learned: Fear is an emotion, not a visceral response. Eric Harrison,Houston Chronicle
Below has ambitions to be better than average, but doesn't pull itself together and insist on realizing them. Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times
With more character development this might have been an eerie thriller with better payoffs, it could have been a thinking man's monster movie. Janice Page,Boston Globe
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10/17/2002 @ 12:00 AM
Becomes swamped early on and spends the rest of its running time dragging itself to Davy Jones' Locker, and us along with it. Gary Dowell,Dallas Morning News
Distances you by throwing out so many red herrings, so many false scares, that the genuine ones barely register. John Monaghan,Detroit Free Press
Twohy pulls all the strings to create an inventive genre piece. Robert K. Elder,Chicago Tribune
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10/12/2002 @ 12:00 AM
While director David Twohy arguably doesn't mine the premise for all it's worth, he gets enough out of it to make it an effective Halloween treat. James Berardinelli,ReelViews
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10/11/2002 @ 12:00 AM
Twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying, and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record. Jan Stuart,Newsday
