These films explore the dangers that lurk within the ocean’s depths.
They find the ship infested by a massive sea monster.
Should have taken out massive sea monster insurance!
Blake Lively in ‘The Shallows’; Ricou Browning in ‘The Creature From the Black Lagoon’; Bruce in ‘Jaws’.Credit:Vince Valitutti/Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection; Bettmann Archive/Getty; Courtesy Everett Collection
Leviathan(1989)
MGM/courtesy Everett Collection
How happy were fans of aquatic horror in 1989?
Pretty freakin' happy.
Just a couple of months later this second tale of beneath-the-waves terror swam onto screens.
Ricou Browning in ‘The Creature From the Black Lagoon’.Silver Screen Collection/Getty
“Some of the fun is: ‘Okay, thisisa dollar ninety-eight version ofJaws.'“C.C.
“It’s such a physical movie,“Lively told EW in 2016. but theKristen Stewart-starringUnderwateris more fun than a barrel of sea monkeys and has an ending that H.P.
Lovecraft would surely have approved.C.C.
Macarena Gomez in ‘Dagon’.Lionsgate Films/Courtesy Everett Collection
Thomas Jane in ‘Deep Blue Sea’.Warner Bros./courtesy Everett Collection
Treat Williams in ‘Deep Rising’.Doug Curran/Buena Vista/Courtesy Everett Collection
(From left to right) Byeon Hie-bong, Song Kang-ho, Doona Bae, and Park Hae-il in ‘The Host’.Magnolia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection
Roy Scheider in ‘Jaws’.FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty
Richard Crenna and Hector Elizondo in ‘Leviathan’.MGM/courtesy Everett Collection
Melody Thomas Scott and Belinda Balaski in ‘Piranha’.United Artists/Getty
Hermione Corfield in ‘Sea Fever’.Gunpowder & Sky/Courtesy Everett Collection
Blake Lively in ‘The Shallows’.Vince Valitutti/Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection
Sally Hawkins in ‘The Shape of Water’.Fox Searchlight
Kristen Stewart in ‘Underwater’.20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
