2021 Directed by Andre Becker, John Nicol …
UNDERNEATH is a grassroots, self-financed anthology in the vein of CREEPSHOW and is comprised of five chapters, an epilogue, and several mind-bending vignettes that are all bound together by something unnatural and sinister.
USA
The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, New York
USA
I love DIY films... so I really wished I liked this a lot more. There really was nothing to grasp onto as I watched tortured souls doing not so nice things
But, good on them for getting this made and shown on good ole Tubi.
Partially created by one of the minds behind Channel Zero, and boy does it show. Sure, it’s got microbudget DIY enthusiasm oozing through it, but it definitely looks like a NIN film clip - an aesthetic that really only works for Chapter Four (which is the most NIN part of the overall).
And, like most modern anthologies, not only is it a real mixed bag, but it’s also pretty damn disjointed as an overall unit.
The directing trio of Andre Becker,John Nicol(CHANNEL ZERO[2015]),and Cory Ivanchuk construct this five stories containing,$50,000 budgeted super artsy but utterly brainless Canadian horror anthology feature that contains stories of both various men and women driven to kill while displaying their fair share of gory bloodshed and ample nudity,but none of the stories make any sense as it is just one artsy scene after another that only leaves UNDERNEATH:AN ANTHOLOGY OF TERROR as a pretentious film that is utterly cold and mindless without any thought or literal sense put into it.
31 days of Halloween
Looks like a student film that's trying to be abstract just for the sake of it.
Underneath: An Anthology of Terror is a DIY horror anthology co-written and directed by John Nicol (Channel Zero), along with segment directors Andre Becker, also a co-writer, and Cory Ivanchuk. The framing device of the anthology centres around a man, who is tormented by a demonic force that subjects the man to five horrific tales, before everything is tied up with the experimental epilogue Entropy.
As with most anthologies, the different segments of Underneath: An Anthology of Terror is very hit or miss. It is evident throughout that this is a film produced on a very shoestring budget and there is a noticeable lack of polish and perhaps too much echo in the dialogue. The film’s pattern consists of longer…
