DeepStar Six ** (1989, Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Taurean Blacque, Miguel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 9982

Director Sean S Cunningham’s 1989 underwater-monster fantasy thriller DeepStar Six is just about watchable for sci-fi buffs, but it is submerged by the lack of action, an unimaginative alien and the particularly silly climax.

This daft, predictable alien-at-sea movie is mostly all at sea, as a man-eating monster threatens a deep-water ocean explorer station, the DeepStar Six, while at the bottom of the ocean on a secret colonisation project, where Taurean Blacque plays the captain, Nancy Everhard the doctor, and Miguel Ferrer (son of Jose) a fast-talking crew member.

They awaken the creature when they unwittingly explode its cave, and it enters their station and attacks them off one by one, Alien-style.

DeepStar Six launched a wave of largely unsuccessful watery alien pictures from 1989-90, including The Abyss (1989), Leviathan (1989), The Evil Below (1989), Lords of the Deep (1989), and The Rift (1990).

Lewis Abernathy and Geof Miller’s screenplay is based on the story by Lewis Abernathy.

Also in the cast are Greg Evigan, Nia Peeples, Cindy Pickett, Matt McCoy, Marius Weyers, Elya Baskin, Thom Bray, and Ronn Carroll.

Sean S Cunningham is the director of Friday the 13th.

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