Under the Bed

This movie will make you think twice about getting a cup of water in the middle of the night. A fantastic scary movie, and a great creature feature. Yes, at times the movie can be a little cheesy, but it was extremely entertaining. It starts off a little slow then blows you away! All of the bratty characters get what's coming to them, and it had an okay "love trumps all evil" kind of ending. If you've ever had your local neighborhood sleep paralysis demon pay you a visit as kid, then you will LOVE this movie.

I absolutely loved it!, it is a great scary movie for kids and for adults as well!great story! very good actors!plus you can really see a monster in the flash! so it can't get any better than that! this is one of those movies that your kids or your family and you could watch together at home, it did kind of ended too fast though? but maybe it had to end this way? I don't know I kind of hoped for a better end? it's okay though maybe next time! thanks.

I made the mistake of NOT renting this film when it first appeared on Amazon ONLY based on the 1 customer review (which gave it 1 star). Clearly it is the reviewer who is less than an adequate film watcher or reviewer. I was relieved to see 2 other (more appropriate) reviews & I agree...WELL WORTH THE COST OF ADMISSION TO THIS E TICKET RIDE, And what a ride it is! You'll not rest from the minute you get it going to the last 5 seconds. Absolutely great story, decent job of the actors - especially the 2 leads. More than a good job by all......GREAT. Whew, I'm glad I didn't listen to that creep.

Novice director Steven C. Miller (Silent Night) takes a stab at an R-rated contemporized approach to the classic "monster under my bed" story. I was generally pleased with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011) and The Boogeyman (2005), so why not give this a shot?After years apart following the death of his mother, disheveled and angsty teen Neal (Jonny Weston; John Dies at the End, Taken 3) returns home to live with his father (Peter Holden; Alien Abduction) and younger brother Paulie. He had been sent away two years ago to "get well" after he burned the house down with his mother in it, defending himself from the monster residing under his bed. Now that he has returned, he learns his little brother has been tormented by the same demon every night.The notion that an otherworldly monster can magically cross into our dimension through the floor under one specific kid's bed is pretty silly. Terrifying, in fact. That it only does so in the dark while you're asleep…even scarier. There was so much potential for dark figures and painfully drawn-out tension. But for some reason I never saw or felt either. And what about the story…actually, what exactly is the story? What drives this monster and how did it get in their house? Why did it want these boys? Are there more of these monsters? Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011) and The Boogeyman (2005) made at least some effort to explain their monsters, their motivations, their origins and their behavior. But here, it just seems that this monster came with the house and its abilities and weaknesses seem to change without explanation as the movie persists. That's really all we get.Not willing to tell their parents this ridiculous story (as they haven't in years past), the two brothers unite to fight this monster. They arm themselves with flashlights, tape, wire, a power drill and duct tape. But is this monster really a threat? Neal was once psychologically tortured and sleep-deprived by this creature. But that creature had 365 opportunities a year to get the upper hand on a sleeping child and somehow never won! After Neal left, his younger brother made it 730 consecutive nights unscathed. If this monster was really in the business of eating children to survive, it clearly would have starved to death by now. It doesn't seem that menacing. A clawed hand reaching out from under the bed is scary, YES! But if it never does anything else…what's the big deal?I think the filmmakers really thought this movie was scary…..it wasn't. Despite their addition of loud music prefacing "SOMETHING SCARY" every time the camera zooms in on something (like, for example, the edge of a menacing bed skirt), I never felt convinced that anyone old enough to buy their own ticket for this movie could possibly be frightened by it. Sophomoric scare attempts include a shaking washing machine and load noises, loud noises by themselves for no apparent reason, and close-ups of Neal looking at the bed with loud noises. Noticing a trend here?THEN ALL THE SUDDEN EVERYTHING CHANGED!For over an hour we sit back and wonder why this movie isn't rated PG-13 or even just PG. Then, after years of going hungry under the bed, the monster suddenly decides to show Neal's family and the audience that it is, in fact, not at all bound to the bed! Neal and Paulie are next door when the creature arrives and twists off the neighbor kid's head in a gloriously gory display. There's that R-rating we came for! When they run back home it follows them and tears their dad's head apart like a food processor. You hear that? It just followed them! Why the Hell did it just stay under the bed all these years? We went from a lame movie starring a rubber claw under a bed with loud music and no scares to a gore-slathered, slimy creature romp. The monster itself is actually pretty damned cool looking and the special effects are up to snuff as well. It looks like an inbred, disfigured Moorlock covered in snot.Why on Earth the director waited so long to reveal this creature, the action and the gore is beyond me because all of the exposition leading up to this was completely empty and the other characters--the parents, the neighbors, some random love interest that never goes anywhere--really never offered anything to the story, which never made any sense to begin with beyond the simple fact that inexplicably there is a child-hungry monster under Paulie's bed.If things weren't random enough yet, the monster actually fashions a hunter's rope snare, traps Paulie like an animal and drags him into the under-the-bed slimy Netherworld! So, just like in Poltergeist II (1986), Neal ties a rope around his waist and goes after him armed with a flashlight trident. I can't even believe what I'm writing right now! WTF is going on in this movie? Were the writers all high? When they come back to--ummmm…reality I guess--the monster now literally has the ability to teleport before our eyes like Nightcrawler in X-Men. Hooray consistency! Then Neal is about to lose a fight against our under-the-bed teleporting Netherworld snot monster when he discovers that his dead mother's ashes are its one weakness. Yeah! He throws his mother's ashes on the monster and that's what kills it!After a slow, confusing start this film eventually catapults its audience into a tumultuous spin cycle of bonkers gore, creature effects and action which--despite making no sense whatsoever--make the whole experience worth the price of admission. In fact, the last 20 minutes were so off-the-wall entertaining that I don't regret buying this at all. Yes it's very dumb. But it's the kind of dumb I want to share with friends with an improvised drinking game.Enjoy the madness.

I recently read an article about some of the better horror movies to come out midway through 2013, and the reviewer listed this as one of them. Really? Seriously? "Under the Bed" is one of the WORST horror movies I've seen in years. Watching it, I had the suspicion that many scenes, scenes of exposition or explanation, ended up on the cutting room floor, because so many of the scenes that remain seem ludicrously short of reason or motive. A perfect example is the scene in which the stepmother heads to the washer/dryer in the garage to do laundry and has an encounter with the thing from under the bed - then NEVER even mentions it afterward. Another is the whole character of the father and his methodology to get the kids to behave. Lock them in their rooms and unscrew the lightbulb in the ceiling! THEN we'll have a scary encounter with the thing from under the bed... The neighbors? The thing from under the bed heading on over there only to provide the movie with a scene of horror?Ludicrous plot. Ludicrous direction. Ludicrous performances. Yes, I hated it.

This movie had me on the edge of my seat for the whole thing. This movie employed the "leaving it to your imagination to see what is happening just out of sight of the camera" technique which as a viewer, you know what is happening, but it still creeps you out. I definitely cheered for the heroine in the end. Stayed with the story just to see the bad guy get his ass kicked.

Great to see some filmmakers still know how to tell a interesting tale and let the story build. The million mile a hour action sequences that seem to be in almost all films recently get so redundant. We absolutely loved the slow tension build and the sticking with traditional effects instead of CGI did nothing but add to the overall feel of the movie. A fantastic soundtrack and a edge-of-your seat finale made for a extremely enjoyable watch!

This story. Just wow. The creature was actually done very well. The acting was top notch. But, the story...now that was on a whole new level. This movie is a must watch.

C'est une histoire d'horreur différente.C'est bon.

Neal is sent away to his aunt's house for two years after almost burning his parent's house down. He returns to find his younger brother is being terrorised by the same supernatural creature that had haunted him - a creature that lives under his bed.This sounds like a fun idea for a film and probably should have been, but for much of the run time the audience doesn't know if the monster is real or is just a figment of the brothers' imaginations. In reaching some conclusions there is a lot of focus on a surly Neal and the fragile relationship he has with his somewhat disturbed father, which becomes tiresome as it distracts from the monster angle. There are also a few throwaway sub-plots where potential love interests are added for Neal and also some cursory investigation into the hostilities the people around him harbour, but none of these are properly explored and instead thrown away. In the end it's all rather silly and I was left wondering how on earth the survivors were going to explain what had happened, as the police were brought in. Could have been so much better.

Gut das ich mich von den Rezensionen nicht beeinflussen lassen hab. Der Film ist Mega! Super Effekte ein paar richtig gute Goreszenen und eine menge Spannende und richtig Gruselige Szenen. Dazu noch super sympathische Darsteller. Also alles in allem einer von der nicht allzu oft existierenden guten Horrorfilmen.

Loved this film! Jumpy, scary and unpredictable. Worth a buy! Reminded me of my childhood and being scared of monsters under the bed, must watch!

Très bon service mais le film n'est pas un grand succès