This would be your garden variety scary movie except for two things: Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer.  It's interesting to see these old pros in action in a pretty standard predictable scare-fest.  They make it much better! Otherwise, as I said, it's fairly predictable what's going to happen and all the really scary moments are preceded by scary music so you know they are coming. I can't tell much of the plot without giving things away so here are the bare bones (so to speak).  Harrison Ford is a scientist who is trying to escape his famous father's shadow by making a really big discovery.  Michelle Pfeiffer is the supportive wife who gave up her music career to make a home for her husband.  All seems well until their daughter leaves home to go to college. Then strange things begin to happen.  Their house seems to be haunted, of course, only when Michelle is alone in the house. I should add that this is most of the time since Ford, in a fairly realistic portrayal of a scientist, spends all his time in his lab.  I can't say more about the plot except that things get scarier and scarier.  Ford and Pfeiffer show why they earn the big bucks by injecting some real characterizations into What Lies Beneath.  The director, Robert Zemeckis , who has directed a few little movies like Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and Contact, is one of the best.  He makes the most of the material although the scary music is a little much. You don't need it to guess when something is about to jump out at Pfeiffer. I quite enjoyed this movie until it was about three quarters through and then they lost me with all the standard end-of-a-scary-movie plot devices. They have them all! Still it's worth seeing.  You might want to see it in the daytime if you have to go home to a big empty old house...