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The Deep House
France / Belgium 2021
produced by Frédéric Fiore, Jean-Charles Levy, Clément Miserez, Eric Tavitian, Matthieu Warter, David Giordano (executive), Natan Bogin (associate), Louis Leterrier (associate) for Radar Films, Logical Pictures, Apollo Films, Umedia, Forecast Pictures
directed by Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
starring Camille Rowe, James Jagger, Eric Savin, Carolina Massey
written by Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, music by Raphaël Gesqua
review by Mike Haberfelner
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American history students Ben (James Jagger) and Tina (Camille Rowe)
have made a trip to France to explore some extra-creepy places for their
YouTube channel in hopes to eventually make some money from it. And one of
their ideas was to do a show about a village that has been flooded some
decades ago for a dam project. Thing is, the lake that has taken the place
of the village has become a tourist hotspot, plut Ben and Tina have to
learn that village as actually been levelled before being flooded. But
then they meet local Pierre (Eric Savin), who tells them about one house
that was still in perfect condition when flooded, and takes our heroes to
a remote spot where they can dive for said house. And Ben and Tina sure
come prepared with the latest in terms of diving equipment, including
intercom and an underwater drone. Once underwater then, they have to
realize the house is all bolted, as if someone didn't want for others to
get in, but in their eagerness they find a way. But the further they get
into the house, the creepier it gets, including traces of Satanic rituals
and hints at kidnappings, until they find two corpses all chained up and
wearing archaic torture masks in the basement, as well as a collection of
severed bodyparts. Ben and Tina try to bolt, but their flight comes to a
sudden halt when they find the window they came in all walled up. And then
the chained up corpses seem to come to life - and with our heroes
basically walled in, that's not at all a good thing ... One
just has to utterly commend this movie for its being shot at least 90%
under water, and still managing to tell a very coherent story. And
fortunately, a decision was made to not film this found footage style
(though there's still more than the usual amount of POV shots) but using
very decent camerawork - except for some of the finale I have to admit,
that just left one confused. And there are many nice moments in The
Deep House as well, though at all the film relies a bit too much on
jump scares, basically because it takes too much time to build up to its
finale, which means the suspense that's initially there fades away after a
while as nothing but a few fake scares happen for the longest time. The
film's still well worth a watch as its underwater photography is pretty
wonderful, and the diving scenes alone already add something special to
the proceedings, it's just that the whole thing quite honestly could have
been structured better.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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