Octalus - Death from below

Movie
German title	Octalus - Death from below
Original title	Deep rising
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1998
length	106 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Stephen Sommers
script	Stephen Sommers
production	John Baldecchi , Barry Bernardi , Laurence Mark
music	Jerry Goldsmith
camera	Howard Atherton
cut	Bob Ducsay , John Wright
occupation
Treat Williams : John Finnegan Famke Janssen : Trillian St. James Anthony Heald : Simon Canton Kevin J. O'Connor : Joey Pantucci Wes Studi : Hanover Derrick O'Connor : Captain Atherton Jason Flemyng : Mulligan Cliff Curtis : Mamooli Clifton Powell : Mason Trevor Goddard : T-Ray Jones Djimon Hounsou : Vivo Una Damon : Leila Clint Curtis : Billy

Octalus - The death from the depth ( Deep Rising ) is an American horror film from Stephen Sommers from the year 1998 . The film opened in German cinemas on May 28, 1998.

action

John Finnegan and the crew of his small ship are forced to help out with an insurance fraud. They drive a group of criminals to a cruise ship that is about to be sunk. But when they come aboard the ship, everything is very different than expected. You find numerous traces of blood, the passengers and the crew have disappeared. Few people are still alive, including ship owner Simon Canton, Captain Atherton, and trick thief Trillian St. James.

It turns out that mutant giant worms of the extinct species Ottoia prolifica invaded the ship and killed the passengers and crew. The group of survivors fights the worms, but is further decimated in the process. Finally, Canton tries to flee with Finnegan's small ship, which, however, is no longer controllable. It goes in circles and rams the cruise ship. The impact results in an explosion that kills the giant worm.

Finnegan and Trillian flee on a personal watercraft and are stranded on a desert island. A little later, Finnegan's ship mechanic Joey comes out of the sea, who (according to his story) escaped death with luck. At that moment, noises indicate that the island is inhabited by a monster.

Reviews

James Berardinelli scoffed at ReelViews that the film showed an "originality" as if the script had been written by a computer. He accused the film of "idiotic monotony" ("idiotic monotony").

The lexicon of international films wrote: “Ready-made adventure thriller about the threat posed by a monster superior to mankind. Superficial tension is simply derived from an increasingly monotonous sequence of shock and disgust effects, whereby the film never knows how to build up inner tension and suggestive power. "

background

The film was shot in Vancouver . Its production amounted to an estimated 45 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 11.2 million in US cinemas.

Web links

• Octalus - Death from deep in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Octalus - Death from the depths at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
2. ↑ Octalus - Death from below. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
3. ↑ Filming locations for Deep Rising
4. ↑ Business Data for Deep Rising