The Deep House
The Deep House is a super bad movie that is ultra obsessed with people escaping from a flooded house possessed by demons and a story that does not progress much beyond that.
Edited: 2023-05-13 21:18
(Spoiler) – The Deep House is one of those movies that has an interesting eye-catching poster while almost everything else about the movie is complete shit.
The story does not progress much beyond "scary satanic monsters are trying to kill you", and the near entirety of the story focuses on two divers trying to escape from a flooded house. This is just not interesting. Of course, the way out – the same way they came in – is suddenly magically blocked by a brick wall with no explanation as to how the wall got there.
Occasionally it seems the divers suffer from delusions, so you constantly wonder if the next thing to happen is real or part of the delusions. This "effect" just does not work well. It just feels like boring fill-out material, especially because you can not really see what is going on in many of the sequences.
Horror movies
The movie concludes abruptly by the main characters being killed off for no good reason. In fact, in this piece of garbage the divers even turn against each other in something that looks like demonic possession.
At the end you sit back with a feeling of profound regret because you wasted your time watching the whole thing from start to finish.
A lot of movies in the horror genre follow this perverse pattern, and I rarely bother watching horror movies for the same reason. Movies that follow this pattern are all garbage.
The story has been given little or no thought, because what matters is, we are scaring, creeping out, or shocking the audience?
In this case, it just appears like a desperate attempt to create a "claustrophobic" environment while showing off some gory effects and images. The claustrophobic element works very bad if the story does not progress beyond that, and the story does not progress at all in this movie.
It could have been better
I would have liked to see the main characters make multiple dives to the house, rather than spending the entirety of the movie focusing on a single element (people trying to escape flooded house).
Another thing is the mindboggingly bad camera work. I think I understand what the director was trying to do with the numerous of close-ups, but the result is that you can not really see what is going on a lot of the time, and it ends up just being an annoying distraction from the little story there is. I guess this was either a bad attempt at enhancing the claustrophobic atmosphere, or it was just a collection b-rolls used to reach whatever length wa intended. Either way, it was super badly done.
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