Deep Rising (1998)

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.

Director:

Stephen Sommers

Writer:

Stephen Sommers

Stars:

Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Treat Williams	...	John Finnegan
Famke Janssen	...	Trillian St. James
Anthony Heald	...	Simon Canton
Kevin J. O'Connor	...	Joey Pantucci
Wes Studi	...	Hanover
Derrick O'Connor	...	Captain Atherton
Jason Flemyng	...	Mulligan
Cliff Curtis	...	Mamooli
Clifton Powell	...	Mason
Trevor Goddard	...	T. Ray
Djimon Hounsou	...	Vivo
Una Damon	...	Leila
Clint Curtis	...	Billy
Warren Takeuchi	...	Radar Man (as Warren T. Takeuchi)
Linden Banks	...	Communications Officer

Storyline

When a band of ruthless hijackers invade the world's most luxurious cruise ship, they're shocked to discover the passengers have mysteriously vanished! But that doesn't mean they are alone! Something terrifying is lurking just out of sight: a deadly force from the unexplored depths of the ocean that begins to snatch the horrified intruders one by one!

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Plot Keywords:

ocean | ship | hijacker | creature | ocean liner | 

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Taglines:

They Seized The World's Richest Ship... But No One's On Board!

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sci-fi violence and gore

Details

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

Korean English

Release Date:

30 January 1998 (USA)

Also Known As:

Tentacle

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$45,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

DEM 487,907 (Germany) (29 May 1998)

Gross:

DEM 487,907 (Germany) (29 May 1998)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Calimari Productions, Cinergi Pictures Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

106 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Captain Atherton, played by Derrick O'Connor, was named after cinematographer Howard Atherton.

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Goofs

When Finnegan is using the pump shotgun, shells never come out the ejection port when it's cocked.

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Quotes

Pantucci: [looking around the workshop] Oh man, what stinks?
[T-Ray slaps Joey in the face]
Pantucci: Did I say it was you?

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Connections

Referenced in Versus (2000)

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Soundtracks

"Shudan"
Written by Gary Kiyoshi Nagata (as Gary Nagata)
Performed by Yakudo

User Reviews

It's officially the best film ever made.

Deep Rising is one of the best films ever made, if not the best! That's right, I'm making a bold statement but it's true. Clearly many of you here will disagree, but when you've seen the evidence that I put forward I don't think you'll be able to argue:

1) The Godfather: The Godfather was less believable than Deep Rising and also lacked such things as multi barrelled assault rifles, jet skis and huge torpedoes. Deep rising however, did not.

2) Raging Bull: No half-digested/half alive bodies, no engine room full of bloody bones or cool looking harpoon guns. Deep Rising had all these things.

3) Citizen Kane: A worthy try, but in the end Orson Welles decision to omit massive underwater squid monsters, left this film floundering. Deep Rising came up trumps in this department.

4) Casablanca: Fails to deliver on every account. Most notably, no one gets pulled down a toilet. Again, Deep Rising excels.

The sad thing is that if the Colour Purple had included a raid on a sinking cruise liner, infested with sub aqua monsters as part of the film, then it too would have climbed to the top of my favourite movie list. But as with most films the director took the easy way out and chose to ignore this very overlooked area of filmmaking.

In my aquatic monster/cruise liner catastrophe marking system, Deep Rising gets a colossal 4 shrimps. But the rather lacking Godfather, gets only 3 angelfish and a haddock.