Before revisiting the 1998 disaster horror film "ExtremeLy Deep Cold", Xiao Wan had to admit that it had brought me a great psychological shadow, making me have an unpredictable fear of deep water for a long time.
For a while, I could always imagine this picture with my eyes closed:
Torrential rain poured down. On the dark sea, a luxury titanic-style cruise ship is parked. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning illuminated the surface of the sea, and only then did it appear that the cruise ship was wrapped around a huge octopus-like brachiopod, and in the bottomless water, a huge shadow was faintly coiled.
Of course, this is just a picture in my mind, and it has nothing to do with this movie.
Okay, back to the point. Let me briefly talk about what kind of movie this is and why it scares me.
Suspenseful opening shot
The opening credits clearly tell the audience that there is a Himalayan-deep trench on the seabed of South China, where countless ships have mysteriously disappeared for hundreds of years. The painting style changes, and under the intense and solemn background music, the seabed is full of shipwrecks from the perspective of some kind of deep-sea monster. What's even more frightening is that in the midst of the rushing sea, this unknown monster is swimming rapidly on the surface.
The opening screen directly fills the sense of suspense
Fast-paced two-line narrative
On the surface of the sea at night, a clipper ship is racing in a storm.
The small boat that bumps in the storm corresponds to the deep-sea shipwreck, which makes people worry about its fate
Captain Fenigan (Tritt Williams) is hired by a group of mercenaries to carry out missions in uncharted waters. On the way, the mechanic Joey (Kevin M.) J. O'Connor) finds a batch of torpedoes in the cabin. As a result, Fenigen and Joy are held hostage by the mercenaries of Tu Poor Dagger and forced into a life-and-death crisis.
Male protagonist Fenigen
The only comedic character in the film, Joey
In front of Finigen's boat is the $480 million "Yago", which can be called the world's first luxury cruise ship. At this time, this magnificent cruise ship was full of wealthy merchants and high-rollers.
A violent storm heralded danger
Luxury cruise ships are full of Chinese elements. Tourists don't know it's the final
The female jewelry thief Trilin (Famick Jensen), who is involved in the ship, is stolen and captured during the theft, and is ordered to be locked up in the storage room by the owner of the cruise ship, Simon (Anthony Hield).
Beauty Thief Cui Lin
Simon, the owner of the cruise ship, incidentally complained that the white suit in the film and television drama is basically the villain of the internal determination
During this period, the communication equipment on the ship was destroyed by the mysterious people, and all of them failed, unable to communicate with the outside world. Just as the captain was reporting the incident to Simon, a crew member observed from radar that a swarm of whale-like unidentified creatures was rapidly swimming toward the cruise ship. Immediately after, the cruise ship was hit violently.
The cruise ship was hit
A female passenger hiding in the bathroom was attacked by an unknown creature.
The tense atmosphere was gripping, and then I began to look forward to what the "monster" would look like.
Shortly after the attack on the Yago, Fenigen's ship also crashed into a speedboat drifting from the cruise ship, causing damage to the engine. It also seems to indicate that their adventure will be difficult.
Reluctantly, they allowed the ship to move and followed the mercenaries' orders to the cruise ship Yago. Fenigan knew that the mercenaries' purpose was to loot the luxury cruise ship, but he and Joey only wanted to find the right parts in the cabin of the cruise ship to repair their ship.
Mercenaries board the cruise ship
When they boarded the cruise ship, they found it in a mess, empty, and there were eye-catching blood stains in many places. By this point, they had already felt a little uneasy.
The cabin was empty
After agreeing, the mercenaries also agreed to get the parts as soon as possible and leave the cruise ship. So the mercenary leader sent two of his men to oversee Fenigen and Joey to the cabin to pick up parts, while he purposefully took people to another place.
A thrilling escape
Upon arrival at the bottom cabin, the unsuspecting Fenigen and the others were attacked by monsters, and two mercenaries were killed. At this point, the film enters a thrilling escape journey.
At this stage, the film begins to make extensive use of peeping shots and tense music with monster roars to create a frightening viewing atmosphere.
A brachiopod swims past the pipe, while the mercenaries below do not know that death has quietly arrived
Monsters are always hidden in the waters of the cabin or behind intricate pipes, which makes people have a fear of the unknown, coupled with various winds and grasses, so that the plot characters who have long been cupping the bow and snake shadow will collapse. This also makes the audience's heartstrings tense.
The hanging cable frightened the mercenaries
After getting the parts and temporarily escaping the monster's pursuit, Fenigen and Joey rush to join the large army. And successively found the surviving female thief CuiLin and the cruise ship owner Simon.
Fenigen, Joey, and Tririn meet by chance. The general law of movies around the world, the more thrilling the plot, the more to arrange for the male and female protagonists to talk about love, flirt and swear
In the process of escape, the crowd found that this luxury cruise ship had become a hell on earth.
And this road is naturally thrilling, step by step crisis. The elevator that suddenly lost control, the corridor squeezed and deformed by the monster, all made people's liver and gallbladder.
Out-of-control elevator
The clever Fenigan deduced from some clues that the mercenary and Simon were a cooperative relationship. In fact, it was Simon who sabotaged the cruise ship's communication system and prepared to play a hijacking scene with the mercenaries in order to defraud the insurance company of huge compensation. But they didn't expect to be ruined by a group of monsters from the deep sea.
Just when everyone was in a quarrel, the monster appeared in front of them for the first time. Pursued by the monsters, they had to flee again.
The first clear appearance of the monster
To avoid too many spoilers, I can only say this about the thrilling escape.
As for the monsters, look like this.
The same monster image in European and American film and television dramas, brachiopods, spikes and long tongues
Close-up of the last one. By today's standards, it didn't seem so scary, but it really scared me as a young twenty years ago