The movie starts off with Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) and his beautiful wife Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) moving into their new home. After they send their daughter off to University, life is pretty quiet for the Spencer family until the day Claire starts to hear sounds which are amiss every time she was home alone.

Because of some traumatic events the previous year following an accident, she dismissed the sounds as similar hallucinations of fear and paranoia. However, the following night, all alone she follows the sounds of a dripping tap and a creaking door, parting to allow her passage, leading her to the very source of the mysterious voices itself, a young woman's wraithlike image.

She hurries to Dr. Spencer's office in panic and fear, only to have her mounting terror dismissed as a delusion by Dr. Spencer himself. Having no-one else to turn to, she follows her husbands' advice to pay a visit to Dr. Drayton (Joe Morton) a friend and psychiatrist.

Asked to confront her fears by contacting the ghost-like apparition she had seen as a reflection in her bath-tub the night before, Claire conducts a séance with close friend Jody (Diana Scarwid). Nothing comes of it and they both return home. But soon afterwards, Claire is visited once again. Only this time the wraith-like image communicates with her. It wants to posses Claires' body in order to complete a task. She gives Claire clear instructions on what to do in order for the possession to taker place, and Claire follows it to the tee, including finding and holding up a strand of the dead girl's hair.

Possessed, Claire seeks her husband to confront him on issues deep and dark. Spine chilling secrets spill out as the now possessed Claire speaks to her husband in another girl's voice. Stories of murder, deceit and past loves and affairs fill the room.

This movie has a solid star cast, with both leading actor and actress having a string of successes to their movie careers. To top it off, 'What Lies Beneath' was directed by Oscar winning Robert Zemeckis ('Forrest Gump').

You can be say that it follows a typical horror plot, beginning with a bright cheerful time of day turning grey, and dark as the plot unfolds. But make no mistake, this is no other ordinary horror genre movie. For starters, there are almost no comedic elements commonly entwined with the very essence of the horror in most stories. This makes it very real. Very true to life. The acting is seamless and suited to each of the actors, showing a great deal of thought had been put into the cast.

If you haven't had your spine tickled or sizzled in a while, you might want to follow this dark thriller, where, for the first time Harrison Ford is NOT at all what he seems!