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Up from the Depths

1979 · 85 min

A cheap, silly creature feature that coasts on B-movie charm, offering mild thrills and unintentional laughs rather than real scares.

Directed by
Charles B. Griffith
Genres
Horror
Starring
Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Virgil Frye
Tagline
Your vacation is about to end!!!
Overview
The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber. The fish voraciously helps itself to a tourist buffet. Now it is open season for the local fishermen to find and kill the creature.

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Directed by
Charles B. Griffith
Genres
Horror
Starring
Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Virgil Frye
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Tone
  • campystrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • nature
  • death
  • greed
Places
  • sea
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror6
Humour3
Realism5
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity2
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
horror
Directed by
Charles B. Griffith
Written by
Anne Dyer, Alfred M. Sweeney
Starring
Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Virgil Frye, Kedric Wolfe, Charles Howerton, Denise Hayes, Chuck Doherty, Helen McNeely
Music
James Horner
Cinematography
Ricardo Remias
Runtime
85 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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