Lords of the Deep

This soggy underwater "epic" just doesn't fall flat, it reaches new lows of horror movie depths and keeps submerging itself into its own murky abyss. Originally, it was made to compete with DeepStar Six and Leviathan, and even those movies were quickly forgotten after James Cameron's The Abyss. But ouch... this movie is REALLY REALLY bad. This movie has ZERO redeeming qualities. Just a wet mess with some actors nobody cares about, a rubber suit that substitutes for a monster and FX so bad, they were outlawed in the 70s. The acting is atrocious, the directing is a joke, the editing is a mess. Actually this movie looks a lot like something from the 1950-60's rather than updated FX from 1989. It is indeed deserving of the classic "Direct-to-video" moniker that describes many sci/fi movies as flat Velveeta cheese.

Firstly, I will admit the only way I have seen this movie is through a Mystery Science Theater 3000: the gauntlet spoof. If you have ever seen any of The Asylum knock off movies on the SyFy channel - this is exactly that. Only made in the 80s. If you haven't seen any of their movies imagine storylines ripped from other movies (popular at the time) with a cast of actors who were most likely found down at the local off-off-off broadway playhouse. Some are good, some are okay, and some are ... well, not great. Then mix in some cheesy dialogue and you have Lords of the Deep. However, under the capable hands of MSTK: 3000, what would have been a death by boredom movie is now an experience that will have you coming back for more! Give it a try! It's on Netflix.

This movie came out in June of 1989I was born in July of 1989. So luckily I wasn't alive to witness this. If a middle schooler got a couple of bucks from his parents and had the neighborhood act in the movie, that's kind of what you get with Lords of the Deep. The title is throwaway because it's never mentioned of alluded to. There's like 10 people who work in the underwater lab but everyone has name tags.With first and last names. The aliens look like they were made in an elementary school art class by first graders. The MST3K episode of this trash is awesome, so I would highly recommend watching it. But don't watch this movie alone, your sanity may depend on it.

Lords of the Deep is a misnomer. It should be titled Lord of the Creeps. The D actors? in this home movie are terrible. A PHD scientist from Colorado State University sticks her hand in vat of chemicals and falls in love with fish monster. Really, you can't make this stuff up. Except for her teeth, she is creepy; everyone in the film is creepy. Even the fish are creepy. This is The Abyss on crack.

The main thing I took from this movie was that I want the horrible jumpsuit that they all wear, it's so 80s yet also timeless. The movie was bizarre yet somehow boring. The energy from the cast was as if they were all acting in different movies. The commander was in a Shakespeare play for some reason and all the other men looked exactly the same and I was lost honestly. The only way I could get around this was by giving them all stargate character names since the one guy is called jack O'Neill. It's a good film to make fun of

Back in '89, I was 8 yrs. old and living in a small town with no decent theaters, and *no* cable TV service. This left me with home video rentals as my only option ... and most of these were cheesy B-movies. But this one I do respect. It is an Abyss look-alike (which curiously, I watched BEFORE Abyss) and back then I liked it a lot. In fact, so much that I taped it and still preserve the movie up to this day. Of course, watching it about 18 years later kind of made me look how bad it was, but it is still enjoyable. It feels kind of some weird mix of Abyss (underwater aliens), 2001 (killer computer), Aliens (megacorps and hidden interests) though looking like it was filmed with a budget on par with Turkish movies a-la "Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam". Kind of good to watch, but only if you have lots of time to waste and really really like underwater movies.