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.

Famke Janssen Treat Williams 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 Anne-Simone Leanne Adachi Melanie Carr Rana Morrison Marti Baldecchi Jana Sommers

Alternative Titles

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

horror adventure science fiction action

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Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 22

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 Flynch ★★★★ 13

Ein Kreuzfahrtschiff, viel Leute mit noch mehr Geld, böse Menschen, hier (angeheuerte) Söldner.....Beutejagd ist angesagt.
Doch wer hier wohl wen jagt. Stephen Sommers (die Mumie; Van Helsing) 45 Millionen teure Monsterhatz macht auch nach über 20 Jahren noch immer mörderisch Spass, gibt Vollgas und ist obendrein auch noch etwas blutig splattrig geraten. (R-rated).
Aus einer Zeit, als noch die bösen Buben charismatisch sein durften, der Held sowieso und die Heldin erst recht, und der lustige Sidekick für Entspannung zwischen der Action und dem Horror sorgen durfte.
Die manchmal dürftigen Computereffekte geraten durch den gut aufgelegten Cast, bleihaltige Action, Verfolgungsjagden mit Jetskis, handgemachten Grauslichkeiten und einer enorm fetten Explosion schnell in Vergessenheit.
OCTALUS will nie mehr sein als er ist, nämlich nichts anderes als ein lautes, schnelles, blutig unterhaltsames Monstermovie- de luxe.
Für Fans der Graboiden und Freunde der gepflegt gehobenen Trash-Unterhaltung.
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 David Sims ★★★★ 4

the world doesn’t deserve kevin j. o’connor and yet we were blessed with him anyway
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 Helen ★★★½ 3

23 years ago today, this film graced movie theaters everywhere.... and made back only a quarter of its budget. 😂
Did you like Speed 2 but wish it had a tentacle creature? Well, you’re in luck!
You gotta give credit to a film where the climax is literally portrayed on the cover art with the tag line “FULL SCREAM AHEAD.”

What a magnificent little stinker... I have such a soft spot for it.
Review by Varan_the_Man ★★★★★ 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…
Review by Matt Winfield ★★★

🌜Daily Horror Hunt #27 (Sept. 2020)🌛
[12] Watch a horror composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
Starts off like your run-of-the-mill, action-packed hijacking movie, but quickly gets turned on its head, becoming a goopy, gory, body slurping, monster from the depths of the murky blue bit of horror. A change for the better I say!
It's smart not showing the creature off for the first half of the flick, keeps things mysterious by just having bodies disappear into a puff of red mist (that toilet scene ❤️). Once the tentacled beast is revealed, the cgi work, ehhhh, it's decent. Good in that late 90's, "still figuring this shit out" kinda way, not distracting at least. Glad to see Rob Bottin on board…
Review by Sofa Sinema ★★★ 2

The Abyss without the cutesy pretentious stuff. For older CG, those tentacles still look pretty cool. Stephen Sommers is far more effective with these lesser budgets. Apart from the criminally overlooked Odd Thomas, this is his most satisfying thrill ride. I scored this blu-ray on Black Friday in a Mill Creek combo pack with The Puppet Masters (which I've also not seen before) for only three bucks!
Review by DirkH ★★★★ 4

Stephen Sommers should only work on a small budget. His latest efforts have been big budgeted blockbuster wannabes, sometimes nice, but more often than not incoherent and over the top. He should rewatch Deep Rising, then he'll know what it's all about again.
Fun. And lots of it. Deep Rising is the ultimate ode to the monster B-movie. It is unpretentious, perfectly paced and a big understanding wink at genre fans watching it. After having seen it several times it never disappoints and still provides what it aims to give, a good time. Nothing more, nothing less.

Recent reviews

Review by Gonzo McNulty ★★★★

This is such an underrated little b-movie romp, made by someone who clearly 'gets' and, most importantly, has "deep" affection for monster movies and creature features.
Stephen Sommers displayed that once more with THE MUMMY before mixing the ratios incorrectly between affectionate 'tribute' and money / bloat.
What works here is that Sommers isn't mocking the conventions of what he's working with. He adheres to them with zero embarrassment whilst putting in a knowing wink here and there, but only where it fits and never where it dilutes the horror elements.
The film's secret weapon is Treat Williams. Anyone surprised by what he pulls off here has clearly never seen DEAD HEAT. He plays the reluctant hero very well, never…
Review by Molly ★★★

Some of the acting in this film is beyond abysmal but honestly it kinda added to the charm idk I enjoyed it I thought it was fun
The cgi was of the same quality of the simpsons hit and run
Review by Michael Newman ★★★½

Big, dumb & lots of fun
Review by Lang88 ★★★

On request of the Pigeon Boys I watched Deep Rising I was promised a naughty action romp. And it certainly was, love the supporting cast which has every characteristic going. The effects where glorious but it was the 90s so it’s fine, the guy getting regurgitated was boss thou, his skin all melted and shit.
I will take a sequel even thou it’s been donkeys just make Treat Williams like an older Alan Parish with the beard and leaf get up.
Review by Andrew ★★★½

The movie starts as a nautical heist film. Then it transitions to a nautical haunted house movie. The it changes once more into a nautical monster movie. All the while being action packed, with moments of outrageous gore.
Treat Williams runs a boat for hire service (whatever the hell that might be) for less than legal consumers. Unbeknownst to him, his current clientele plan to hijack a cruise ship and blow it to kingdom come.
But when the criminals board the ship, they find it abandoned, with the power cut, and all the lifeboats still in place.
Soon they discover what is at the root of the mystery, a giant sea creature(s) has infested the ship, and killed everyone aboard,…
Review by Russell ★★★½

Watched on : Disney +
A cheesy B-movie monster movie is my best way to describe this. Which has since had a cult following.
And I can see why it's gory, violent and totally hilarious. Just a film you can switch your brain off and enjoy.
Review by Brent Disney ★★★★½ 2

Who knew I like horror on the high seas so much? I'm guessing GHOST SHIP ruined me for exploring much further than I did, but this was too much fun.
Review by Kai Walker ★★★

Has some of the worst line delivery I’ve ever seen and the cgi looks like something from those zombie games that I used to play at the bowling alley as a kid, but this is otherwise a really fun monster b-movie and I’m so glad that it was added to Disney+ so that I could rewatch one of my favourites from my childhood!
Review by krysta now’s energy drink ★★★

The effects in this fall somewhere between Resident Evil PS1 and 3D hentai pop ups
Review by John Austin ★★★★

Took immediate advantage of this popping up on the new Star part of Disney+ to watch this old favourite. The CGI is a little bit hokey now but this is still a top drawer creature feature that homages (or rips off) all the big hitters in that genre - particularly Alien and Aliens.
It’ll leave you wondering (as it does me) why Treat Williams and Famke Janssen never quite made it onto the A List. Stephen Sommers would go on from this to the Mummy, The Mummy Returns and then Van Helsing and for me - that’s an exceptional strike rate on enjoyable mainstream ‘horror’ blockbusters.
No doubt I’ll be watching this again in a couple of years - and I fully expect to enjoy it just as much then.
Review by Francisco J. Ruiz ★★★½

- Stephen Sommers SLAPS and deserved so much better.
- Filled to the brim with excellent character actors.
- Treat Williams playing Han Solo was both terrible and genius.
- Famke Janssen got a shitty character and gave zero fucks.
- Marvelous gore, movie goes completely bananas with the concept.
- Iconic monster design!
- Leila deserved better too.
- The mercs were really fun together, it's a shame most of them get separated and offed so quickly.
- Insane amounts of cringy one-liners per second. Love it.
- Jerry Goldsmith gave it his best.
- THAT ENDING!
Review by Iván Cabrera ★★★

Ok, esta es la película que logro que quisiera armar una lista de películas de terror que encontrarías en canal 5 de 1990-2010.
Plus: Jean Gray siendo una deus ex machina andante, monstruo misterioso que castiga la avaricia y la violencia (?) dialogos de peli de acción en trama lovecraftniana (?) Además, ¿A qué hora se les terminan las balas? Esto no es Resident Evil jajaja