The year was 1989 and we were flooded with a lot of underwater movies, all hoping to catch the summer box office prize, unfortunately, legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman was late to the party with his film Lords of the Deep so this entry never even made it out of the kiddie pool.
Tag: The Abyss
Leviathan (1989) – Review
Directed by George P. Cosmatos, this film takes viewers on an underwater adventure that attempted to combine the creature-feature thrills of John Carpenter’s Thing with that of claustrophobic tension of Ridley Scott’s Alien, in an underwater horror entry that, despite its viscous sea monsters who relentlessly stalk our valiant heroes, the true victim of this…
DeepStar Six (1989) – Review
In 1989 James Cameron released his underwater epic – the one not involving Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and a big boat – but that year saw him challenged by four other ocean “thrillers|” with the first being DeepStar Six. This undersea adventure pitted a group of misfits against a menace from the deep and…
The Atomic Submarine (1959) – Review
Hollywood has produced quite a few alien invasion movies over the years and while most of them dealt with UFOs in the traditional style of those found in films like Ray Harryhausen’s Earth vs the Flying Saucers it was Allied Artists who took a different tack with their science fiction entry The Atomic Submarine. This…