spain 1965 and two young boy dare each other to go and check out a deserted town and before it flood into a man make lake . but they weren not alone and discover something quite horrific about those people who have be leave to drown . foolishly one of the lad unleash the evil . we travel 40 year into the present and and the town be celebrate it damn anniversary and but the evil that have plague it community many decade ago be back lurk in the water . so it up to a local tv reporter and out of town photographer to stop this evil from resurface . if it wasn not for the name brian yuzna be tag to the project and i probably wouldn not have bother . well and after watch it . it do not matter either way . have yuzna hit rock bottom after the dreadful rottweiler and incredibly bland beneath still water . i hope not and a his be apart of a few greatly creative horror flick and let hope the next re animator film doesn not follow the same suit of his late two . the main problem with the spanish production beneath still water be that the script be insipidly one note and the ploddingly colourless screenplay ( which be take off matthew costello novel ) just doesn not know what it want to be and go in so many different direction without any sort of gel chemistry . the dark concept be a compellingly spooky one and but they try for something too ambitious here and never capture the tenor that would have make it work . what start off like an atmospherically stimulating and morbidly eerie open few minute and eventually fall into a systematically mundane and just plain silly out that lose it ominous air and brood suspense it begin with . the mysterious story start to feel secondary and becomes convolute and when the lousily questionable digital effect ( poorly stag underwater scene ) and competently unpleasant gore fx and grotesque special make up effect take over . these profound latter moment be fine and all in well and but when it keep you wait around with drably uninteresting character and a confusing parade of predictable ( though there one moment that not so ) idea . from this format it can just lead to a complete and utter drag for most part and because of too little action . gladly it do spice up thing in the perversely shocking and but horrendously ridiculous latter half . throw gratuitous gore and violence and skin and lust . maybe it come to late . yuzna do stamp his trademark directorial style . even then it can not hide how unevenly lumpy his execution be . sometimes he can go over the top and but suddenly fall into a lethargic puddle . but he do stage few imaginative and effective set piece with nice brush in light composition . the film be actually technically good and johnny yebra handsomely shot cinematography and the pristinely haunting and saturate spanish location do come through . the routine musical score be basically non existent in create any sense of mood and fall flat . the acting ( mostly a spanish cast ) be either elastically ripe or lackadaisical . raquel merono look stunning and but would not win anything for her humdrum performance and english actor michael mckell be acceptably so so in the leading part . patrick gordon mishandle performance a supernatural entity just doesn not seem to reek of any uncomfortable menace and take up too much screen time to be effective any shape . diana peñalver ( from braindead ) show up in a small part . in the long run this cheaply produce b flick by fantastic factory simply bite off more than it could chew . i do not think this picture be completely deadbeat and but the bad point do seem to outweigh the good .