Deep Rising

1998 Directed by Stephen Sommers

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A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.

Treat Williams Famke Janssen Anthony Heald Kevin J. O'Connor Una Damon Wes Studi Derrick O'Connor Jason Flemyng Cliff Curtis Clifton Powell Trevor Goddard Djimon Hounsou Clint Curtis Warren Takeuchi Linden Banks

Alternative Titles

Octalus, Uhka syvyyksistä, The Greed, Terror en lo Profundo, Tentacle

adventure action science fiction horror

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Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 23

Deep Rising is so much fun! Treat Williams channeling his inner Han Solo, shooting machine guns you would see in a game of Duke Nukem, while trying to survive a deadly attack from sea monsters who decided to eat the guests aboard a fancy cruise ship.
It's okay to laugh at the cringeworthy CGI. Ever try to make a practical sea monster bigger than the Titanic? Man, these monsters are scary, and they want to eat like the hippos in Hungry Hungry Hippos. In all honesty; Deep Rising is a bootleg version of John Carpenter's The Thing, sold straight outta the trunk of an '82 Cadillac.
What I love about Deep Rising is the lack of moral conscience characters. Everybody…
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★½ 6

Just when you think you're being set up for Die Hard on a cruise ship, Deep Rising goes from straight '90s action movie to classic big, gross monster movie and I like it. It's extra gross because the tentacle monsters don't eat you, they drink you and there's something incredibly unsettling about that thought, loved their feeding ground with all the grue covered skellies!!!!!!
Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★ 6

#26 of 31 - HOOPTOBER 5.0 : We Don’t Need A Stretcher In There We Need A Mop
Depending upon who you ask you'll get responses ranging from it's the spawn of the antichrist or it's a great little horror actioner! My view is more middle of the road! It is NOT as awful as some would have you think! On the other hand it is nothing to write home about! Many claim it's an Alien rip off.. statements like this are growing tiresome! You do know Alien ripped off many of its predecessors! And yet we never hear how Alien ripped them off! Why exactly is that? ;-)
Actually I'm just grasping for straws here trying to find something…
Review by Jacob Knight ★★★★ 2

Ostensibly the film everyone wanted THE MEG to be: a big, weird, dumb, bloody B-Movie that’s just goofy enough but paints the ocean red whenever the monsters attack. Treat Williams is a solid Kurt Russell stand-in and it helps when Dean Cundey mans your Second Unit. One of the most entertaining genre movies from the late 90s.
Review by Tony the Terror😼🏳️‍🌈 ★★★½

This is a really fun movie, even if maybe not quite as great as I thought it was in 1998.
A group of hijackers plan to take over a cruise ship, but instead encounter a nasty monster waiting on board. It’s a total popcorn movie that borrows a little from underwater horror movies like Leviathan, a little from sharksploitation movies, and a lot from both Tremors and Aliens. There are plenty of funny scenes mixed in with the action although some of the one-liners aren’t quite the zingers they want to be. The cast is great and Treat Williams should have been given his own wise guy action franchise for sure. Also, somebody please give Kevin J. O’Connor the credit he has…
Review by Kaijuman ★★★★★ 2

“Now what?”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love ocean-based monster movies. I’ve always been fascinated by sea monsters and the surrounding water isolates the victims from the rest of the world. And while some will point to Jaws, Leviathan, or Deep Star Six as the pinnacle of ocean horror, I’ll always point to Deep Rising.
This gives the genre a bit of a twist by making it an action/horror hybrid. Our cast aren’t scientists or average joes, they’re mercenaries with crazy “triple-pulse assault rifles” with rotating barrels that rain a barrage of bullets down onto anything that moves.
The movie also knows not to take itself too seriously. If you’ve familiar with Stephen Sommers other directorial…

Recent reviews

Review by samescenes ★★★½

There are three things any movie needs to make me love it: stupidity, charisma, and unfathomable SeaDoo stunts.
Review by Manosch ★★★½

Now what?
The first time I've seen this movie, it gave me nightmares for weeks. No wonders, as a 7 years old child this motion picture will be remembered for a long time. In fact, after almost 20 years, I decided to look up that nightmare of a film and watch it as a full grown. And I have to say this action horror movie isn't that bad at all. The effects were just fine back then. The bloody and some what comedic scenes are actually quite enjoyable and fun to watch. The plot isn't that bad either. Also the main characters are likeable.
If you're looking for an entertaining action horror movie with sense of humour that doesn't take itself too seriously, you will not be disappointed.
Review by Blu_Ray_Display ★★★

HA! I love to include the classic tag-lines in the headline! 😆
Before Stephen Sommers went on to direct The Mummy and Van Helsing, he made Deep Rising. An old-school, fairly silly creature feature about some crooks trying to rob an ocean liner only to discover it abandoned and now inhabited by seemingly tentacled creatures with a taste for flesh!
Treat Williams stars as Finnegan, the captain of the boat hired by the crooks to get them to the cruise liner. He's got a great personality and a quick mouth ably supported by his mechanic and friend Pantucci played by an always crazy Kevin J. O'Connor.
The crooks are made up of some really top supporting actors who went on…
Review by Andrew "Ducky" Dutkiewicz ★★½

I literally don’t know what this is.
I was entertained and also thinking about the architecture of the wall next to the television.
A good movie?
A bad movie?
Don’t ask me.
I watched it and I got nothing!
Hence the 50% rating.
Review by David Hatfield ★★★½

Corny, 90's cheese that is actually a lot of fun to watch. Treat Williams comes into his own as an action leading man, and O'Connor is a LOT of fun. Just a year before "The Mummy," Stephen Sommers delivers a fast-paced, action-horror-lite quasi-blockbuster that's super likeable and totally harmless.
Review by Michael ★★★½

I saw this movie when it came out in theaters when I was a kid back in 1998. 20 years later, I think this movie is a very fun and awesome movie. The movie has a fun cast of characters and the movie was pretty suspenseful at times. I also love the atmosphere in the movie and how they build up the creature over time in the film. Not to mention, the humor in the movie is pretty funny too.
The worst thing about this movie is the CG because it has aged terribly. It looks like utter crap by today's standers. Overall, Deep Rising is still a great movie and it is worth checking out. Rating: 7.5/10
Review by FredM ★★★½

Playing out like an '80s actioneer of an Alien version on a lifeless cruiseship with the extra addition of great sprinkles of humor. Furthermore it's got the ragtag group of familiar and recognizable characters, some surprisingly gory situations, and above all it's just plain and simple great fun to watch with an awesome jetski finale.
Review by Dan Hassler-Forest ★★★★ 1

Cinema is Treat Williams and Famke Janssen riding a bright yellow jet ski through a sinking cruise ship while being chased by the world’s shittiest CGI sea monster. [chef’s kiss]
Review by Anders Holmes ★★★½

A very enjoyable monster film. A B-Movie delight. Lot of great lines, sci fi action scenes and some nice performances from Treat Williams, Wes Studi, Famke Janssen, Kevin J O’Connor & Anthony Heald. A true cult film and another fun film from Stephen Sommers