![]() ![]() If you are a desperate horror fan, it could pass for some turn-off-your-brain entertainment. There are always key phrases, symbolic things, and repeating elements that are significant for the deeper understanding of the film and, consequently, for your overarching review. ![]() The special effects are decent though, and it does prove the shocks and gross-outs a good horror movie should provide. ![]() "The Superdeep" is most often a formulaic mess, and a little nonsensical when it's not flat-out uninteresting. Unfortunately, once the creature appears, you never get a good look at it, which actually may be a decent idea because what is seen is quite putrid and repulsive. Without showing his hand, he builds an incredible amount of tension and suspense using the actors and an ultra-creepy soundtrack. This choice by first-time writer/director Arseny Syukhin proves to be smart. After hints and allegations of the foe's existence, it doesn’t make an appearance until almost two-thirds of the movie has passed. I was going to wait until I read those Volumes before I made a review, but these are words I feel I need to get out now. Surely the whole movie could be explained away as a severe case of decompression sickness, but there's a terrifying and horrifying creature at the bottom of the borehole. However, after hearing unending praise for the Made in Abyss film Dawn of the Deep Soul, which adapts Volumes 4 and 5 of the manga, I decided to read up to where the anime ended and then watch this film as my first exposure. And while the story on the surface seems to be understandable, there are a number of scientific plot holes that make it hard for a thinking person to accept, like an elevator that can rise and fall several miles into the Earth in a matter of minutes. "The Superdeep" has a classic horror movie shell for its plot: "Despite all warnings and common sense, let’s send the well-meaning heroine in to face an unknown threat while surrounded by well-armed military men who are led by a man with different priorities than our heroine." Instead of space, which is the anticipated setting for these type of stories, "The Superdeep" takes place in a station that is already buried miles beneath the surface of the Earth. ![]()
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