Review of DeepStar Six (1989) by Brendan N — 10 Dec 2018
The creature is a poor design and sadly this is just like Leviathan, which I only reviewed a few months ago. I'm on the hunt to watch all the films surrounding James Cameron's The Abyss, the only film that wasn't a flop for this concept of a creature deep within the ocean.
DeepStar Six has moments of cleverness, the scene with Richardson is a ripper. I didn't care for the character motivations and some of their decisions are just odd. Cunningham was an inspired choice for this film, but this was not a horror film and he feels out of his league here.
The sea monster is a dud and lacks any menace. The end scene is exactly like Leviathan so I don't know which film entered production first, but there is a fair call for plagarism, I'm not investigating, the films are quite bad regardless.
This could have been a fun film, but it is another poorly executed genre film. 09/12/2018.
This review of DeepStar Six (1989) was written by Brendan N on 10 Dec 2018.
DeepStar Six has generally received mixed reviews.
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