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A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952. 10. Deep Blue Sea. Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.
- 15 'Sphere'
- 14 'Underwater'
- 13 'Open Water'
- 12 'Deep Rising'
- 11 'The Reef'
- 10 'Triangle'
- 9 'Deepstar Six'
- 8 'Leviathan'
- 7 'The Cave'
- 6 'Cold Skin'
Director: Barry Levinson
Directed and produced by Barry Levinson, father to Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, and based on a novel by Michael Crichton, Spheretakes an A-list cast and puts them through a wringer. The film is more of a work of mind-bending science fiction than a conventional horror film. However, there are plenty of things to be afraid of, such as typhoons, jellyfish, and enormous squids. While the film garnered mostly unfavorable reviews upon its initial release, it quickly gained a cult following thanks to it...
Director: William Eubank
Few authors have been as successful in exploiting people’s fear of the unknown asH. P. Lovecraft.Underwater is a movie that plays on Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos, with their version of the Great Old One resting peacefully at the bottom of the ocean until his slumber gets disturbed, to horrifying results. Kristen Stewart gives a fantastic performance as a beleaguered mechanical engineer just trying to survive with a ragtag band of scientists. One of the best ocean thriller movies, the film is ex...
Director: Chris Kentis
Scuba diving is all fun and games until your boat leaves you behind in the middle of the ocean with no way to contact help. That is the disturbing premise of Open Water, which is made even more shocking because it is based on a true story. Things only get worse for the American couple stuck at sea as sharks surround them and exhaustion sets in. People often have unpleasant ideas about what might occur if they get lost at sea. ThatOpen Water was based on a tragic reality for a pair of divers m...
Director: Stephen Sommers
As if contagious diseases, electricity going out, and running out of shrimp aren’t worrisome enough when you’re on a cruise ship, Deep Risingshows it could always be worse. The action horror film depicts skeevy mercenaries seizing control of a luxurious cruise liner just before a monstrous kraken threatens the vessel. The ensuing chaos results in plenty of carnage for the ship as the monster unleashes a few surprises. The Mummy’s Stephen Sommers understands not to take things too seriously, a...
Director: Andrew Traucki
The Reef is an Australian horror survival film about a group of friends whose boat starts to sink in the middle of the ocean as they’re being hunted by a great white shark. The gang sees an island off in the distance and must make the agonizing decision between staying with the doomed ship or swimming to shore. It’s difficult not to be terrified of sharks, even though the actual harm they represent to swimmers is negligible. Still, The Reef knows that once you’re in the sharks' territory, the...
Director: Christopher Smith
Triangle shifts focus from monsters of the deep to the modern myth surrounding the Bermuda Triangle. Jess (Melissa George) meets up with her buddies for a lovely day out on the water until calamity strikes. Something traps Jess and her friends in a deadly temporal loop in the film, with no apparent way out. A lively and tightly written story that both literally and metaphorically throws the audience for a loop propels Triangle. The best feature of the film is Melissa George’s outstanding perf...
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Many of these flicks include giant sea monsters, and it’s easy to see why in DeepStar Six. In one of the best deep ocean movies, a group of military personnel and scientists band together to defend their undersea station from attacks by a massive sea scorpion. The combined power of a leviathan and the helplessness of being confined in water makes for interesting viewing. DeepStar Six can be sluggish at first, but once it gets going, it pushes the pedal to the metal.The film does an excellent...
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Leviathan came out at the same time as several other underwater creature features, including Deep Star Six, and features a similar plot line about an attacking sea creature. The movie makes the case for its existence because of impressive practical effects by legendary special effects artist Stan Winston and underappreciated direction by George P. Cosmatos, father to Mandy's Panos Cosmatos. Leviathancreates a stressful atmosphere filled with watery nightmares that lurk within and outside the...
Director: Bruce Hunt
The Cave pushes the boundaries of thrill-seeking as a team of divers led by two brothers explore an underwater cave teeming with secrets. The movie had the unfortunate timing of releasing at the same time as The Descent, with both featuring beastly creatures attacking a group of underground explorers. Despite a somewhat formulaic plot, The Cave does a terrific job in its own right, with stunning creature visuals that evoke fright. Several sleekly directed scenes, including a pulse-pounding cl...
Director: Xavier Gens
Although Cold Skin takes place above ground, it does an excellent job of exposing oceanic terrors. An unnamed man (David Oakes) travels to a remote island to work as a weather watcher, but gradually learns of the island’s terrifying truth. He eventually joins forces with a lighthouse keeper to repel assaults from beings emerging from the sea. The film is very stressful and claustrophobic, particularly when the men are confined inside the lighthouse. The enigmatic creatures of Cold Skin can be...
- 464 VOTES. Jaws. In the classic thriller Jaws, the quiet summer resort of Amity Island is thrown into chaos by a deadly great white shark. Police Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) must team up with oceanographer Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and grizzled shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw) to stop it.
- 143 VOTES. Leviathan. Leviathan taps into the fears we all have of the ocean, that there can be anything in its mysterious and dangerous depths. Add in the horror of experimenting on human test subjects, and a government conspiracy, and there are more than enough anxieties to keep audiences up at night.
- 123 VOTES. Underwater. Underwater begins as a type of natural disaster movie, with an underwater drilling station taking on water after a terrible earthquake.
- 351 VOTES. Deep Blue Sea. Bringing to mind the conundrum of Jurassic Park, Deep Blue Sea proves you cannot play God, and you really shouldn't even try. In increasing the shark's brain size to help the scientists better harvest a protein complex they believed could help in healing Alzheimer's disease, they accidentally turned the sharks into killing machines, more deadly and intelligent than ever.
Moana 2: Directed by David G. Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, Dana Ledoux Miller. With Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Tudyk, Nicole Scherzinger. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana journeys to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced.
- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Tudyk
- 2024-11-27
- 2 min
Mar 7, 2024 · The best lost at sea movies of all time chart a course through the uncharted territories of human endurance, capturing the imagination with tales of survival, isolation, and the indomitable human spirit.
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