The Thing Below (Video 2004)

A top secret drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico raises a dormant alien creature from the depths. Once loose, the creature goes on a murderous rampage.

Director:

Jim Wynorski

Writers:

Raul Inglis, Keith Shaw,

Stars:

Billy Warlock, Kurt Max Runte, Catherine Lough Haggquist

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Billy Warlock	...	Captain Jack Griffin
Kurt Max Runte	...	Crank Wowchowski
Catherine Lough Haggquist	...	Anna Davis
Peter Graham-Gaudreau	...	Dean Rieser (as Peter Graham Gaudreau)
Warren Christie	...	Cassidy
Kiara Hunter	...	Mel Rodgers
David Richmond-Peck	...	Bobby Gibbons
Colin Lawrence	...	Dixon
Jim Thorburn	...	Cole Griffin
Craig Bruhnanski	...	Captain Mark Stewart (as Craig Brunanski)
John Reardon	...	Lance Taylor
Ari Solomon	...	Prouty
Julie Hill	...	Professor Glenda Marshall
Ken Kramer	...	Dr. Edgar Pretorious
Darryl Scheelar	...	Peters

Storyline

A top secret drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico raises a dormant alien creature from the depths. Once loose, the creature goes on a murderous rampage.

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Plot Keywords:

alien | drilling platform | female nudity | showdown | military | 

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Taglines:

Fear is Rising.

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence, language and sexuality

Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 January 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

Sea Ghost

Filming Locations:

British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$1,500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hellfire Productions, Insight Film Studios, Movie Central Network

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited from Steel Sharks (1997)

User Reviews

Wretched from start to finish

This movie is one sorry mess and its hard to believe it was ever made. There had to be some kind of tax shelter deal that enabled the birth of this monstrosity, because I fail to see how any rational person would ever willingly invest money into a script like this.

The plot involves a government-owned oil rig conducting secretive drilling operations deep underground. Something goes wrong and the crew from a tugboat delivering supplies to the rig investigates. Of course, there are government agents involved and higher-level military officers trying to keep the oil rig experiments a secret from the outside world.

This could have been a decent horror/thriller but the filmmakers obviously didn't care. Some scenes were so blatantly stupid that one would have thought of them as parodies of horror film clichés, but no, they were actual attempts at generating suspense and drama. Usually scenes are included in movies to move the story forward and to develop the characters, but the makers of "Sea Ghost" decided it would better to include scenes that made absolutely no sense in the context of the movie. To top it all off, the CGI was pathetic, I'm sure an eight year old using a Mac could have developed better effects, and would have saved the producers some money to boot. At least the no-name actors tried, although some seemed to be playing it as a comedy and others as a serious horror.