Deep Star Six - Spanish import with original English audio [Blu-ray]

This 1989 sci-fi horror concerns itself about the struggles of the crew of an underwater military test colony to defend their base against the attacks of a sea monster which is accidentally released after they detonate a depth charge in order to collapse a large underwater cavern.The film often doesn't take itself seriously, featuring many one liners and with plenty of action sequences it never plods but the lead into the main plot is too long and many characters are too flat and unlikeable. Of the 11 crew, only four are major players, the rest are just disposable fish food which tends to make it all too predictable as they just seem to be scene fillers and never part of the story. The special effects are often impressive, although it lacks modern CGI but there are many lost moments where the tension could have been even greater,The single disc loads to a languages screen [English/German] then goes to main screen offering play, scene selection, special features [trailer, featurette, making of, behind the scenes and photo gallery] and set up [English or German stereo, audio commentary or subtitles in English, German or Turkish]. With plenty of horrific deaths it will appeal to many gore fans but it flits from tension to calm far too quickly, lessening the impact. Also, I couldn’t help think that Nancy Everhard and Nia Peeples were cast in the wrong parts. Still deserving of a worthy **** late evening view but not quite a five*.

Directed by Sean S. Cunningham (original Friday The 13th) this is probably his best film, as he seemingly had a decent budget to work with.His background in low budget filmmaking comes into play here, as a lot is left to the imagination initially helping create an air of suspense, although events get more monstrous and even a little gory towards the end.This always felt like the one that got left behind releasing the same year as similarly structured movies, The Abyss & Leviathan and whilst perhaps not as slick as either, it's just as much fun and a worthy addition to your monster movie collection.

I watched this on Youtube. Yes, i did. but anyway, this film is a good watch. Similar to Leviathan with the deep water settings. My only criticism is the creature design. They tried to stay realistic with actual monsters of long ago - i think. Plus, the lack of TV channels showing the movie. That doesn't help it much. Blade Runner was criticised real bad at the box office. when shown 5 years after on TV, it got interest from people and an addiction for Riddley Scott's movie took off.Otherwise, a good film to watch. those were the days of action films. now, well they pull us to the cinema to spend money on movies we will never talk about after watching them.

This overly talky and pedestrian sci-fi creature feature was part of the short lived trend of underwater set alien clones released during the late 80’s which, along with the Peter “Robocop” Weller vehicle Leviathan (1989), ironically pipped James Cameron’s mega budgeted aquatic alien epic The Abyss (1989) to home video. Despite it bombing at the box office, Deepstar was a pretty popular rental fixture in ‘89.Despite it attempting to be a rip off of alien (“some aliens don’t come from space!!” proudly screamed the VHS box art), the inane, dialogue heavy first hour comes across more like an old episode of Star Trek sans personality and there’s little in the way of any real tension or suspense.People shout a lot of made up technical jargon, frantically mash at myriad flashing buttons and thrash about in the water whilst Harry Manfredini’s made for-tv-disaster-movie soundtrack tries to convince us that what we are seeing is suspenseful and entertaining.Greg Evigan is the cardboard cutout hero / charisma bypass victim and Miguel Ferrer is great as an unhinged, scenery chewing character who constantly rodgers everything up.In a hilariously bad and repeated series of continuity flubs, characters who have just been swimming under water appear bone dry in subsequent scenes!There’s a couple of stand out, old-school splatter fx scenes courtesy of The Fly creator Chris Walas and the scant glances of the monster we do get treated to look suitably icky. The creaky underwater miniature work has a charming obviousness to it and it’s difficult to be too harsh on the film as it was clearly made with a lot of heart by director Sean Cunningham (Friday 13th).This review is for the Spanish Blu-ray. Picture quality is excellent and the film has both English and Spanish audio options. Sadly there are scant extras on the disc.Deepstar Six is still worth a watch if you can’t track down Leviathan.

A most enjoyable tongue in cheek horror.I have never enjoyed horror films, so its safe to say this is anything but, even when the cast get chomped in half or mauled by this pork chop with lobster claws its more comic than horror.

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I like this type of movie, up to a point. This is a cut above the SyFy channel offerings. The monster is not overdone and there is a believable subplot regarding people who have been under compression too long in a closed environment. A good movie for a dreary afternoon.

Whilst not a true classic Deep Star Six is as entertaining as you're gonna get with a budget horror. Its an entertaining romp set in a deep sea research labatory. Plot aside which is nothing to particularly shout about. There are some decent acting moments, the monster is very well done, for a budget horror, and theers lots of blood and guts to keep gore fans happy. if ur an afficinardo of underwater creature features u cud do worse than to pick this up dirt cheap on amazon... it even has a commentary track..