Underwater
There are tons of peachy revulsion subgenres that rise and fall in popularity , but aquatic horror is evergreen . There ’s just something about slimy savage from the deep reaches that speaks to the primal fear of the unknown in all of us .
Updated on December 7th , 2020 by Mark Birrell : With the mussy Hollywood release agenda of 2020 being suboptimal at best for a mess of movies , the entertaining aquatic sci - fi horror thriller Underwater so well could have been lost to the depth . Yet , the movie has developed a logical stream of interest since its release and got more and more motion picture fans question what else there is out there that ’s similar . For those searching for such stories , we ’ve increased the size of this lean to better radiate a Inner Light on Underwater and earlier movies like it .
Underwater (2020)
Kristen Stewartshines as her own variety of sci - fi action ace in this aquatic creature feature that may look and feel like everyAlienmovie crammed into ninety minutes but still mixes the subgenre ’s crotchet around to make its own mod tailspin on the high - concept horror B complex - movie .
A squad of survivors trapped in a mining facility on the ocean storey have to jumble and salvage what they can to retrieve some form of understanding as to how they can survive , why their adroitness has been destroyed , and what sort of demonic freak are stalk them .
Jaws (1975)
Really the grandfather of them all when it comes to aquatic repulsion flick that audience see being released today , Steven Spielberg ’s game - changing shark movie is cleanly gripping and more than subject of producing a good jump even in this day and age .
On the hunt for a killer great white , a Ithiel Town falls to hysteria and three men embark on a foolhardy missionary work to wipe out it , evoking many classic stories and Hollywood techniques , showcasing the power of the less - is - more advance – debatably – better than any other movie in history .
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
The only movie that can be argued to be more significant thanJawsin the ontogenesis of the aquatically - theme repulsion film is , of course , Jack Arnold ’s iconic world-wide monster picture show from 1954 .
Creature from the Black Lagoonbegan a love social occasion between movie fans and one of the most notable monstrosity of all time , one that is more than worthy of being bring up in the same breath as Boris Karloff ’s goliath fromFrankensteinor Bela Lugosi ’s take on Count Dracula .
The Shallows (2016)
Blake Livelystars in this smartly simple take on the shark thriller as a womanhood trapped not more than a few hundred meters from the shoreline in a rocky rock outcrop , a hungry shark constantly encircle her and waiting for her to try and make it back to Edwin Herbert Land .
Whilst still by no mean value being in any way about realness , The Shallowsis a much more down - to - land rendering of aquatic revulsion than a pic likeUnderwater , but no less slick .
DeepStar Six (1989)
One of a figure 0f deep - sea horror movies from the 80s and 90s thatUnderwaterclearly draw inspiration from , DeepStar Sixis a through B - picture show romp ready in a likewise futuristic underwater research facility that unwittingly unearth an onset of grotesque monsters .
Fans ofUnderwater ’s tech and puppet conception will surely get at the very least a retro kick out ofDeepStar Sixand its barefacedly schlocky sensibilties .
Piranha (1978)
In Joe Dante ’s ( Gremlins ) aquatic horror - comedy , thousands of military - tier piranhas get away into a river shop by the guests at a vacation camp .
Dante ’s sophomore feature already expose the anarchic humor that would characterizehis well - known moviesand is one of the onlyJawsripoffs ( of which there were many ) to be deal something of a classic in its own rightfield . Alexandre Aja ’s idiotic 2010 remaking , Piranha 3 - Dis also deserving a look .
Leviathan (1989)
When the CEO of a major tummy ( Meg Foster ) engage geologist , Steven Beck ( Peter Weller ) to manage an underwater minelaying surgical procedure , he channelize to the sea ’s depth with his bunch . At the bottom of the ocean , the crew slip up upon and look into a sunken ship , only to bring a malefic lifeform back to their own . As the wight mow down bunch members and cause them to grotesquely mutate , Beck must relieve who he can and get back to the surface before the watercraft is overtaken .
barefacedly cribbing elements fromJohn Carpenter’sThe Thing(1982)andAlien(1979),Leviathanis dense , rank - out fun as infectious as its central spongy beast .
The Abyss (1989)
Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio champion as divorced petroleum engine driver draft to help a Navy SEAL ( Michael Biehn ) retrieve a nuclear sub from the ocean ’s deep point .
From soda water amusement mavenJames Cameron , The Abyssis a fine - tuned , claustrophobic thriller bathed in Oscar - winning special effects .
Deep Rising (1998)
When a brand new sail ship shoves off , the passenger are unaware of the danger ahead . Not only is a domain - social class stealer ( Famke Janssen ) essay to rob everyone aboard blind , but when a monstrous tentacled ocean creature collides with the ship and leaves it dead in the water , panic band in . And that ’s before the bloodshed set out .
Stephen Sommers ( The Mummy ) write and directed this late-90s Zea mays everta flick , which evidence to be a major vital and commercial-grade failure upon freeing . However , the few who sawDeep Risingfell hard for it , and it ’s achieved cult classic status over the retiring couple of X .
Sphere (1998)
Having provided the U.S. politics with a elaborate paper on how best to theoretically handle extraterrestrial life , psychologist Norman Goodman ( Dustin Hoffman ) is surprised that his plans are being put into natural action to investigate an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific . With the assist of a biochemist ( Sharon Stone ) and astrophysicist ( Liev Schrieber ) among others , it ’s up to Goodman to hear the secrets of a ship that may , in fact , hail from the far distant future .
Also boast Samuel L. Jackson and Queen Latifah , and directed by Barry Levinson ( waggle the Dog),Spherebrings top grade endowment to a waterlogged labor with mixed results .
