Movie

Open Water

2004 · 79 min

A slow-building, suffocating plunge into isolation and dread, where the vastness of the sea becomes a terrifying character.

Tagline: Scream all you want.
Overview: Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
How it feels: Tense, bleak, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Survival, isolation, fate, death
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
fate
death
freedom
Places: sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild