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Beneath

Maureen Miller

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It was Stella Gullaksen’s final break before starting her freshman year at college. Joining her...

Ally and her Mad Hatter (The Madness of Wonderland #2)

S.N. Hunt

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Wonderland is just a story.... Ally spent her whole life being told Wonderland was just a...

Dark BDSM Erotica Contemporary Fantasy TRIGGER WARNINGS Profanity

Brainwave Studio

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Stressed out? Trouble sleeping? Distracting sounds at work or school? Need a relaxing break from a...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Underwater (2020) in Movies

Feb 9, 2020

Underwater (2020)

2020 | Horror, Sci-Fi

6.5

(26 Ratings)

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Solid (if slightly derivative) horror-SF movie with extra added treats for fans of classic weird fiction. Following a disaster at a deep-sea drilling site, the survivors must try to make their way to safety, contending with the collapsing installation and grotesque and hostile marine creatures. Who or what exactly have they woken up...? One of those movies where you can have fun spotting all the things it's ripping off (Alien, Gravity, The Abyss, numerous others) but none the worse for that: the movie plays with genre tropes intelligently even if some of the storytelling could have been tighter.

That said, I probably wouldn't have bothered to see this movie if a member of my RPG group hadn't spotted that it contains a fairly sizable easter egg of particular interest to us, so we trooped down en masse and mostly had a very enjoyable time. Fans of Providence's most famous writer of horror stories will probably also get a kick out of Underwater, although I would imagine this works equally well for the uninitiated. Solid production values, decent direction and performances from a good cast; I imagine this film will find a natural home in the 9pm slot on the Horror Channel and do very well for itself there.