What Lies Beneath & Gothika
Rotten Rewind15 Touko 2023

What Lies Beneath & Gothika

Before the "Saw" franchise staked their claim to the Halloween release slot, Dark Castle was delivering its annual nu-metal take on classic horror movies. Ah yes, that blissful period in between the 90's slasher wave and the post-9/11 torture porn/J-horror remake craze. During that brief window, we got movies like "House on Haunted Hill" and "Ghost Ship," but their last hurrah was the 2003 supernatural thriller "Gothika" starring a post-Oscar win Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz and Robert Downey, Jr. in his first comeback role. A minor box office success, but a critical disaster at 14%, Matheiu Kassovitz's American debut was the first in a string of post-Oscar win bombs from Berry and is mostly forgotten today. But is it really as bad as its reputation suggests?

Another relic of cinema's past is the big budget adult thriller starring bonafide movie stars. In the summer of 2000, Robert Zemeckis delivered a box office success with "What Lies Beneath," starring Michelle Pfieffer and Harrison Ford in a sort of supernatural erotic thriller. Written off as silly schlock by most critics at the time of its release, we can't help but feel like this movie be embraced with open arms by the same critics today.

So join us for this nostalgic look back at a pair of 2000's comfort watches as we discuss the last era of movie stars, bad bangs, unexpected Limp Bizkit needle drops, the underrated careers of John Carroll Lynch and Joe Morton, and white women seances. How many times can Max say the word "shlock?" Does Harrison Ford eat pussy? And most importantly, can you get fingered to these movies? Find out now!

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