Just finished watching the movie “Below” which was pretty good. I’d seen it before a year or so ago so it wasn’t scary this time but it was still good.
It is the story of a submarine who identifies an enemy ship and torpedos it. When it rises to check for survivors, the captain of the sub dies mysteriously. With the first mate in charge, the sub picks up three survivors and then goes on it’s merry way.
As problem after unexplainable problem arises on the submarine, the crew starts worrying that something is afoot. Eventually, they must admit that the sub is haunted by the dead captain’s spirit – raising the question of how he did, in fact, die.
Pretty much the entire crew dies before the first mate admits to killing the captain. You see, the ship he identified and they sank wasn’t really an enemy ship. It was a hospital ship with only injured soldiers aboard. The first mate is afraid the captain, who was appalled to find out about the mistake, would report him up the chain of command so he murdered him.
As I said, it was a good movie and I will have to buy it sometime. It was quite scary the first time I saw it and I still jumped a few times this time around as well. One thing I do know, I could never live on a submarine – it was so claustrophobic in there!
