The saying that there’s no such thing as bad publicity could never have been coined in the age of social media, where thousands of people gleefully unite online to level their contempt at a single subject with relentless and merciless ridicule. One such target, Netflix’s horror What Lies Below, is now trending precisely because of how much everyone hates it.
The plot sees a teenage girl returning from summer camp to discover that not only has her mother found a new younger lover in her brief absence, but that she has already agreed to marry him. While initially being distracted by how insanely hot the frequently shirtless hunk is, she quickly comes to suspect that there’s something not quite right about him, and becomes determined to uncover what it is.
Here’s a small selection of how people have been reacting to it
Watched #whatliesbelow and WTF did I just watch
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— Naya⁷
(@usersexist875) April 27, 2021
@netflix where can I go to get the last 1hr and 45 mins of my time back for watching What lies below. Top 10 worst movies I seen….ever.
— model broad wit da hollywood smile (@bbygrlt) April 26, 2021
These were the WORST. I kept watching behind her eyes bc it looked so good and I was confused and somewhat interested but I regret wasting my time
& don’t get me started with what lies below… what kinda weird monster crap was that
— cloudsss (@claudiaaapz) April 25, 2021
what lies below was the weirdest thing i’ve ever seen
— ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฝ (@sarahnxtdoor) April 28, 2021
Who the fuck decided that #WhatLiesBelow was a good movie & gave the OK to show it to people with actual eyeballs! Wtf did I just watch
— Taylor Wolf (@tayw0lf) May 2, 2021
watched what lies below on netflix lastnight and it feels like my brain has been in a blender
— ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ป๐ป (@MadiBall17) April 29, 2021
Just finished watching "what lies below" on Netflix, and uh what did I just watch!?!!
— Victoria
(@sp0okyvic) May 1, 2021
I’m like a half hour into What Lies Below and it’s absolutely one of those movies that feels like it was made by somebody with the barest knowledge of filmmaking and even less knowledge of how humans work. Cannot recommend enough.
— twenty dollar lunch (@queenbuttpirate) April 25, 2021
I just watched What Lies Below on Netflix thanks to @KennieJD for suggesting it. I have no idea wtf the purpose of this movie was. Like wtf did I watch just now. So many questions & confusion. WTF? pic.twitter.com/PJ0DwD8da6
— Im Me
(@96Otono) April 26, 2021
I’m starting to think #Netflix is punking us with some of their very terrible original films. My gah. #WhatLiesBelow was HORRIBLE. Laughable.
— Monique (@MoVa78) May 3, 2021
If the movie’s premise sounds more like that of a Lifetime melodrama than a Netflix horror, that’s entirely the problem. Had it remained a sinister yet simple tale of a mysterious man’s hidden secrets being revealed it might have been vaguely tolerable, but the shoehorning in of cosmic forces and aquatic hominids as though it’s attempting to be a really loose adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth leads to the impression that everything was thrown together with no consideration given to if they would actually complement each other rather than incoherently clash.
Additionally, the film is peppered with vague allusions to a difficult family history, but none have any relevance to the story at hand, merely thrown in as a substitute for competent character development, making the screenplay feel like it was assembled using a series of notes copied from writing manuals without the requisite talent to ascertain how to put them together.
There’s no reason why family drama and horror can’t work together – and in fact have on multiple occasions – but it takes a far better movie than What Lies Below to realize this.
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