"What Lies Beneath" (2000), now streaming on Netflix , isn't your typical Robert Zemeckis fare. The writer-director, generally known for such crowd-pleasers as the "Back to the Future" trilogy or "Forrest Gump" — and the occasional hard-hitting and somewhat sensational dramas like "Flight" (which is not based on a true story) or "The Walk" — moves in a territory here that's quite uncharacteristic of him as a filmmaker. On a first watch, "What Lies Beneath" feels like an early aughts chiller made by Sam Raimi at the end of his horror-dominated era rather than something deliberately chosen by Zemeckis. Although he did direct episodes in "Tales From the Crypt" and Meryl Streep's horror comedy, "Death Becomes Her," before, "What Lies Beneath" was truly his first attempt at a proper, unflinchin

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