`LIES' PACKS SCARES DESPITE HACKNEYED STORY.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Movie review)

Byline: AMY BIANCOLLI Staff writer

True confessions from a hardened critic: I screamed ``AHHHHH!'' 14 times at ``What Lies Beneath.''

A few of them might have been ``OOOOOH''s. And ``OH, NOOOOOO''s. Not to mention ``ACK''s, ``ARRRRH''s, ``OY''s, ``EERRRGH''s and ``YIIIEEEEAHHHH''s. I think I might have even yelled ``EEEEEEK'' at some point, although I'd be most grateful if word of this didn't get out. I have a reputation to protect.

See, movie critics are supposed to be calloused and skeptical creatures. Which I am. I was calloused and skeptical enough to know going in that ``What Lies Beneath,'' opening today, would be hell-bent on eliciting screams from anyone who watched. I knew this from the preview, which I had seen eight or nine …