While many films made a trip to the beach seem terrifying, only a handful of deep-sea horror films explored the dark, unknowable depths of the ocean.
Summary
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Underrated horror films explore the depths of the ocean and depict Lovecraftian horrors lurking beneath the surface.
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Movies like
Leviathan
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Submarine
Immerses viewers in a claustrophobic suspense of deep waters and terrifying battles with grotesque monsters. -
Deep lifting
offers a lighter tone with a mix of comedy, horror and action, while
dagon
offers a bloody twist to Lovecraft’s spooky stories.
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While many famous horror films have made the sea scary, underrated outings that explore the depths of the ocean can be particularly chilling. Horror movies set primarily at sea are nothing new. From Steven Spielberg Jaws Helped define the 1975 summer blockbuster, creature features have seen beaches inundated with all manner of sea monsters. Since 1978 Piranha all the way to 2018 the mega, the multiplex has often hosted sea-based horror stories. However, only a few horror films explored the darkest depths of the ocean and depicted the Lovecraftian horrors that lurk there.
Some documentaries, scarier than any horror film, have introduced viewers to the strange and unimaginably huge sea creatures that live at the bottom of the ocean. However, most sea-centric horror movies only spend time hundreds of feet below the surface. Most horror movies, including the mega and 2010 3D Piranha, they allow their monsters to escape from a deep-sea hiding place and travel to the surface to terrorize their victims. However, some of the most claustrophobic horror movies ever began at the bottom of the ocean and remain there, taking place almost entirely in the depths of the dark, lonely ocean.
10 Leviathan (2014)
1989 appropriately titled Leviathan It is named after the mythical sea beast that resurfaces in several religious texts. In this intense sci-fi horror, a group of doomed ocean explorers board a sunken shipwreck where they encounter a grotesque monster. Soon, the beast infected the crew and survivors, resulting in a terrifying battle between the humans and the infected. With an all-star cast including Peter Weller, Daniel Stern, and Ernie Hudson, Leviathan is one of many great horror movies with a poor Rotten Tomatoes score.
9 Underwater (2020)
As Leviathan2020 underrated Submarine leaves stranded an impressive set projected in the depths of the ocean surface. In this Lovecraft-inspired effort, Kristen Stewart plays an ocean researcher whose work for a deep-sea drilling company comes to an abrupt end when her team is disrupted by the presence of a mysterious and monstrous species. While SubmarineThe ambitious ending turns the film into a loose, stunning adaptation of a famous Lovecraft tale; most of the previous film’s tense running time is devoted to harrowing scenes of deep-sea suspense.
8 Deep Growth (1998)
Deep lifting takes himself much less seriously than both Submarine and Leviathan, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Following a gang of amoral jewel thieves who stumble upon a seemingly abandoned luxury cruise ship, Deep lifting provided future The Mummy director Stephen Sommers with an early opportunity to strike his signature balance of comedy, horror and action. While many of the darker films listed have endings that make the film seem like a waste of time thanks to their oppressively bleak tones, Deep lifting instead, it opts for a pleasantly cheesy ’90s action movie climax.
7 The Deep House (2021)
2021’s The Deep House is an ambitious fusion of deep-sea horror and the traditional haunted house plot as a pair of YouTubers explore an underwater house. The remains of the house are creepy from the start, even if the couple’s bickering quickly becomes boring. However, the real surprise comes when the duo discover that just because the house is submerged in water doesn’t mean it is free of paranormal activity. Strange, inventive and, above all, terrifying, The deep house is a different kind of deep sea horror movie.
6 Sphere (1998)
Sphere was adapted from Jurassic Park The novel of the same name by author Michael Crichton. For the first half of the film, viewers could be forgiven for assuming that the story of deep-sea explorers studying an abandoned spaceship is a rip-off. The abyss. However, Sphere is a horror film that enhances its story by abandoning its original premise as the film reveals that what lies behind the craft is stranger and creepier than anticipated. Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson and Livev Schreiber ensure this one has a well-rounded cast and a solid story.
5 Down (2002)
2002 Below Mountain range Intense blackDavid Twohy returns to the horror of a siege in a lonely place with the story of a submarine crew who are plagued by paranormal events during a routine rescue mission. This twisty horror was a box office flop upon release, but its clever revelations and mysterious plot remain thrilling upon rewatch. The story of the USS Tiger Shark was originally intended to be a historical thriller, but Twohy revamped the script during revisions. This resulted in a tense horror that feels as believable as it does brutal.
4 The Rift (1990)
Launched in 1990, The crack stars The metal jacketRising star R. Lee Ermey. The film follows the crew of an experimental submarine that is sent deep beneath the sea’s surface to find the remains of its missing predecessor. After encountering a tangle of toxic algae, the crew eventually discovers that their colleagues collided with monstrous beings created by generic engineering. The crack is an old-fashioned B-movie and a lot of fun, even if its gory thrills aren’t as slick as LeviathanIt’s a comparable story.
3 Deep Star Six (1989)
Released within a year of both. Leviathan and The crack, Deep Star Six It was another submarine-based sci-fi horror that many viewers missed. To be fair, James Cameron’s legendary Tthe abyss arrived around the same time, so it’s understandable that director Sean S Cunningham’s cheesy sea monster movie wasn’t seen as a result. However, Deep Star SixThe story of a doomed crew facing what appears to be a gigantic sea scorpion features tense set pieces, gruesome deaths, and a monster that could make anyone afraid to go back into the water.
2 Sea Fever (2019)
The Irish indie horror of 2019 sea fever It follows a group of fishermen who encounter a deadly parasite while far from shore in the west of Ireland. Claustrophobic and chilling in equal parts, sea fever eschews the monster attack thrills of other films listed here in favor of creepy body horror. As a chamber piece, it is a thrilling and impressively intense journey, and as a strangely timely commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, Sfever It turned out to be surprisingly prophetic.
1 Dagon (2001)
While viewers never got to see Guillermo del Toro’s unrealized Lovecraft adaptation, dagon It showed that the director’s work could come to life on the big screen despite what some detractors claimed. Directed by Stuart Gordon, dagon is a loose adaptation of the author’s famous story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth.” dagonIn the plot, its hero uncovers a creepy conspiracy in a small coastal town but, according to the film’s wild ending, this has been transformed into a strange and bloody deep-sea horror film thanks to a shocking and downbeat twist.