10 films about the depths of the ocean and dangerous sea creatures

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

For the release of "Meg: Monster of the Depth" with Jason Statham in the title role, Lifehacker has collected the most interesting pictures about sea monsters.

Jaws

• USA, 1975.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 124 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 0.

Without a doubt, a selection of films about sea monsters should start with the legendary film by Steven Spielberg. The local police sheriff discovers the remains of a girl on the shore, torn apart by a huge white shark. The number of victims is growing every day, but the city administration does not dare to notify residents of the danger. Then the sheriff teams up with a shark hunter and oceanographer. Together they want to catch the monster.

Subsequently, the film received three more sequels, the last of which was released in 1987. In each part, a team of heroes fights a huge shark.

Piranha

• USA, 1978.
• Horror.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 9.

Before the release of this film, Steven Spielberg accused director Joe Dante of plagiarism. However, he liked the picture itself, and subsequently they became friends.

The main character is investigating the disappearance of two teenagers. She discovers a secret laboratory where piranhas were bred during the Cold War, which could live in cold and salt water and be used as living weapons. After the closure of the laboratory, some of the mutants survived, and now they got into the open sea and bred. However, the military is trying to hide these facts, and piranhas get to public beaches.

The sequel to this film "Piranha 2: Spawning" is the debut of the famous James Cameron in the big cinema. However, the second film is considered a failure in all respects.

Abyss

• USA, 1989.
• Science fiction, adventure, thriller.
• Duration: 145 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

Cameron shot this film much later. And he, in contrast to "Piranha 2", is still considered one of the standards of paintings about the depths of the sea.

A submarine with nuclear warheads on board crashes in the ocean. Researchers are dispatched to the scene of the accident from a nearby station. They must find out the cause of the crash and disarm the warheads. However, when specialists arrive on the submarine, they encounter unknown sentient beings.

Leviathan

• Italy, USA, 1989.
• Fantasy, horror.
• Duration: 98 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 8.

This film plays up a traditional plot where a group of people in a confined space is faced with an unknown danger. In Ridley Scott's Alien, the action took place on a spaceship, in Carpenter's Thing, at the polar station. In Leviathan, the heroes find themselves at an underwater silver mining station.

A group of miners discovers the sunken Russian submarine Leviathan. As it turns out, the crew of the boat was killed by an unknown virus, which the miners brought to their station. One of them mutates and turns into a ruthless monster.

Deep blue Sea

• USA, 1999.
• Horror, thriller, fantasy.
• Duration: 105 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 8.

More dangerous than a huge shark can only be a reasonable huge shark. Scientists are using genetic engineering to enlarge the brains of fish to conduct research on a cure for Alzheimer's disease. As a result of the experiment, three experimental sharks turn into intelligent creatures, who have added cunning to their thirst for killing.

Lake Placid: Lake of Fear

• USA, 1999.
• Horror, action, comedy.
• Duration: 82 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 7.

In a quiet lake located in the forests of America, there is an ominous monster that can bite a person in half. After the death of a nature researcher, the local sheriff tries to find and destroy the creature. His assistants assume that this is a giant crocodile that miraculously appeared in the lake. The heroes first want to kill the monster, but then decide that they need to catch it for research.

The open sea

• USA, 2003.
• Drama, thriller.
• Duration: 79 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 7.

This film is based in part on a true story. A married couple arrives in the Bahamas to relax and dive. However, during the last dive, due to an error, the boat leaves without them. The heroes are thrown into the open sea 15 kilometers from the coast without any hope of salvation.

People who investigated the real case that served as the prototype for this story believe that the couple died without the participation of sharks or other animals. However, the film, of course, added these dangerous creatures that attack the heroes.

Megaacula vs. Giant Octopus

• USA, 2009.
• Horror, action movie.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 2, 6.

Asylum, known for its bad blockbuster fakes, has its own sea monster movie series that kicked off with a giant shark versus an octopus confrontation. All these pictures are shot with very cheap and ridiculous special effects, and the actors play poorly. However, thanks to this, the films became famous all over the world as comedies of the absurd.

In the story, scientists are studying a glacier at the bottom of the ocean. Because of the experiments, the ice is destroyed, and giant creatures that have become extinct two million years ago are breaking free.

If this film is not enough, then you can watch other stories about "Megaakul" from this studio, as well as a series of "Sharks Tornado", where sea monsters were sucked into a tornado, and then thrown into the metropolis.

Piranhas 3D

• USA, 2010.
• Thriller, horror, comedy.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 5.

Remake of the 1978 film "Piranha". The plot is generally similar to the original, only in the new version the mutant piranhas are not the result of military experiments, but ancient creatures that have lived in a confined space for millions of years. After the earthquake, the monsters fall into the lake, where thousands of students gathered for the holidays. The sheriff and the seismologist helping him try to avoid turning the youth holiday into a piranha dinner.

Shallow

• USA, 2016.
• Drama, thriller.
• Duration: 86 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 3.

The main character comes to Mexico on a wild beach to go surfing. Not far from the coast, she stumbles upon the body of a dead whale, and a great white shark immediately attacks the girl. Having been wounded, the heroine gets out on the whale's carcass and is trapped: a predator is circling around, and everyone to whom she can shout immediately perishes in the water. She will have a one-on-one fight with a deadly monster.