Sure, there were other entries, but none worthy of the entertainment standards that Deep Blue Sea gave us. And just like that, the knowingly unrealistic monster thriller seemed to subside. Hollywood put an end to his reign of moderate success. This time, he received $94 million for his budget, but only managed $54 million in the box office. After that, Hollywood said “OK Harlin, we’ll give you another shot”. It did well in the box office too - $164 million. For context, Harlin’s career hasn’t been pretty since this. Well, in 1999 we signed up for Renny Harlin’s deep sea epic. We know what we’re signing up for, and that’s a lot of fun. I think it’s part of the reason the Fast and the Furious franchise has succeeded so well. But when it knows what it is, the genre flourishes.
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What I will say is this: When an action movie gets pretentious, it rarely works.
How this genre came to be, I am not sure. Recent additions to the category include The Meg. I call this genre ‘the knowingly unrealistic monster thriller’. It’s almost like people lost their appetite for genetically enhanced sharks and the wider genre that this falls into. It’s the kind of movie that flourished in the 90s and slowly faded away. The film is produced by Markus Selin and Jukka Helle for Helsinki-based Solar Films.Deep Blue Sea is one of those movies that isn’t technically ‘good’, but what it lacks in script and realism, it makes up for in entertainment. Pekka Strang (“Dogs Don’t Wear Pants”), Saana Koivisto (“The Serpent”) and Inka Kallen star. So many of them are about spirits hiding away in the woods,” Joonas Pajunen said in another statement to Variety. “We were also inspired by old Finnish stories and myths. “Our mission with ‘The Knocking’ is to create a mood that enables waking up these fears hiding in the corners of our minds,” the filmmakers said in a statement. Their plan is to get the house and estate ready to be sold but an evil force tries to prevent them from doing so.” The Knocking is said to “revolve around three adult siblings who return to their childhood home, where their parents were allegedly murdered many years ago. LevelK has also sold The Knocking to over 70 countries around the world. The film is “expected to premiere domestically in February 2023.” The film is directed by John Pogue ( The Quiet Ones) and written by Dirk Blackman ( Outlander).įinnish horror film The Knocking marks the feature debut of Max Seeck and Joonas Pajunen, and Variety indicates in a report this morning that it’s coming Stateside early next year. Other cast includes Emerson Brooks ( MacGyver), Bren Foster ( The Last Ship) and Japanese star Reina Aoi as Miya, a grad student who is part of Emma’s small research team that is working on an island sinking in the Mozambique channel.
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Deep Blue Sea 3, as this clip reveals, picks up shortly thereafter, with Bella no longer with us and her babies now full grown… and hungry. Third franchise installment Deep Blue Sea 3is swimming our way next week, and today we’ve been provided with a clip that firmly connects the film to the events of Deep Blue Sea 2.ĭarin Scott’s Deep Blue Sea 2, you may recall, primarily centered on a genetically-modified shark named Bella, who gave birth to a whole bunch of piranha-like sharks that ate their way through the cast of stock characters.