stagger
Seattle
A review of this — 3 years ago
This movie is basically a ghost story on a submarine during WWII.
Good points: technically well made, good acting, mostly interesting to watch.
Main Bad Point: it is really not scary at all. Maybe if I had seen it in a theater instead of my living room, it would have been better. As it was, there were exciting and tense parts, but nothing I would call scary.
The DVD reveals some cool scenes that were cut because it made the film more action oriented than scary, but, IMO they should have put them back in because the scariness wasn’t really there. In some ways it did seem like a war movie with a lot of people freakin out instead of a horror movie.
Another Bad Point: I thought the story was a little lame, which may had contributed to its lack of scariness. The fact that it was all psychological (the above freakin out) rather than supernatural was kinda interesting, but not really done well. I also thought one major character was not written well (the only woman in the story).
Perhaps it is just too hard to make a really scary story on a submarine. After all, they are pretty cramped (though the one in the movie seemed too roomy to me), so action seems more appropriate.









