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| View Larger Image | Deep Star Six | Video On DemandStarring: Greg Evigan, Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard, Miguel Ferrer, Nia Peeples
Directed By: Sean S. Cunningham
Also With: Sean S. Cunningham (Producer), Mario Kassar (Producer), Patrick Markey (Producer), Andrew G. Vajna (Producer), Lewis Abernathy (Writer), Geof Miller (Writer)
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| | Binding: | Video On Demand | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 99 minutes | | Studio: | Lionsgate | | Release Date: | January 12, 2010 | | Genre: | Horror | | Synopsis: | Far below the surface of the unforgiving sea, the daring crew of DeepStar Six are explorers in a forbidding world of impenetrable darkness and unimaginable pressure. They have invaded the icy fathoms into which no human has ever ventured. Their mission is to establish a top secret Navy base on the ocean floor. But something's down there and the crew of DeepStar Six are about to make a startling discovery- there's no escape from the terror of the deep. Director Sean Cunningham ("Friday the 13th," "House") has created a new horror that will plunge you into the depths of fear. Better hold your last breath...to scream. | | Sales Rank: | 13,479th |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 33 reviews)
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Deep Star Six by mlh8087 (Texas)  5 Stars
March 13, 2010
This movie arrived in a timely fashion. The movie played well in my DVD player. Deep Star Six is fun to watch. The special effects were okay but the acting was outstanding. It shows how fallible some humans are when in a crisis situation and how others rise to the top. Great underwater monster movie.
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seems familiar by Major W  2 Stars
October 01, 2009
i was just curious about this movie since i did not see it in the theatres. it seems like it is parts of other movies. good popcorn movie with spouse
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Needs More Monster by ReviewMaster (ca)  3 Stars
May 16, 2009
Deep Star Six: VHS Movie Review
Grade: C+
O.K., so in the age of DVD's, I buried this out of my VHS collection, and remembered one scene (the infamous decompression scene). Remembering watching it about 5 years ago, decided to give it another try. I now know why I didn't remember much of it though; most of the movie is pretty much forgetable.
The plot, yet another shameless "Alien: 20th Anniversary Edition [Award Series]" rip-off, this time tries to put Alien underwater, disturbed from his sleep (hibernaton?) by a crew of explorers trying to set up a Navy Base on the bottom of the ocean floor. It gets mad, and starts (just like Friday the 13th Uncut (Deluxe Edition), another movie Sean S. Cunningham directed) picking off the crew one by one.
But the sad thing: you just about never see the monster. (Although when you do see it, I rather liked the way it looked, despite it being a rubber suit) Instead, the movie focuses more on character development, developing useless characters that just die later on in the movie, when the monster (finally) shows up.
Along with a ton of character development, there are numourous underwater shots, but its too dark to see anything clearly. Basically, nothing really goes on for the first hour of the movie, and you don't even see the monster until the movie only has about half an hour left. (And it's only actually on screen for a total of about a minute.)
Yet there was one thing that really surprised me: the casting. The actors and actresses were chosen extremly well, and they all play their parts like they really were trapped underwater with a giant angry lobster/crab thing.
So in the end the acting saves the movie from being a total disaster, and there are some cool scenes. (Once again, the decommpression scene.) The first of 1989's "underwater thriller" era (The Abyss (Special Edition) and Leviathan are the other ones) Deep Star Six still manages to pack a punch, even on VHS.
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The Abyss R-rated by Wolfgang Muellner (Krems) 3 Stars
March 18, 2009
Sorry for the stupid title but I find it hard to come up with something short and original for every review. This is one great low budget underwater film and I`ve found it even better than the similar themed Leviathan. You can`t compare it to The Abyss because that`s a whole different kind of mosnter. The is movie is fun (which film who has Miguel Ferrer on the cast isn`t?) has some nice splatter effects (decompression) and the cast is doing it`s best to create likeable characters and keep a straight face in all the mayhem.
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A Decompressing Film by Stanley Runk (Camp North Pines) 3 Stars
October 04, 2008
I saw this one in the theater back in the day(my most vivid memory is that I really had to pee and I was happy when the film ended so I could dart off to the restroom). I wasn't crazy about it then, and I'm still not today. It's a pity coz the right ingredients are here. You got an underwater crew menaced by a prehistoric beasty(on an adequate budget) directed by Sean Cunningham. Sounds like fun, right?
Well, for a monster movie, there is a surprising lack of monster action. Most of the film it seems like endless scenes of folks sitting in cockpits/control rooms, water bursting from walls, people bickering, people shouting stuff like, "Close the hatches!", and endlessly repairing damage(or attempting to). When the monster shows up, you're already kinda tired of the whole thing. It doesn't look quite as bad as others have said(it's wisely kept in the dark most of the time), but it's not terribly impressive.
On the positive side, those of you who couldn't get enough of Greg Evigan in My Two Dads will have a splendid time watching him as a hero in a full length film! And using the F word! Also along for the ride are Matt Mccoy, Miguel Ferrer, and Ferris Buhler's mom. Ferrer is Deep Star Six's version of Michael Biehn's character in The Abyss.
Deep Star Six has a few good bloody moments, and even fewer suspense moments, but it's not a total throwaway I guess.
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