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After an
experiment goes wrong, a rescue team
heads into the lab to see if there are any
survivors. The laboratory is filled with slime
and water of some sort and no survivors are to
be found anywhere. What only two of the team
knows is that they're dealing with an alien
species that have escaped. As the aliens get
more and more vicious, it seems as if getting
out alive will be impossible.
Do you remember the Japanese horror flick Rasen?
It was released at the same time as Ringu in
Japan and had the same concept and some of the
same actors but as it wasn't as successful as
Ringu they decided to release it direct to video.
Well, I'm guessing that Deep Evil is House Of
The Dead's Rasen. No less than three cast members
of House Of The Dead is in here and the concept
is fairly close to the one used in House Of The
Dead. The only real difference is that this has
aliens that look like swamp monsters instead of
zombies and that it takes place inside a lab
instead of on an island.
With that being said I guess that you've all ready
figured out that the acting isn't top-notch.
Will Sanderson, who I think did a pretty good job
in House Of The Dead speaks like a rapper here and
can often be mistaken for a black hip-hopper in
this flick. I did not like that very much. Ona
Grauer isn't any more credible here than in House
Of the Dead and Lorenzo Lamas shows us just how
good he's at overacting. This time Uwe Boll
didn't do the directing though, Pat Williams
took care of that here and honestly, if you
compare the two directors, Uwe feels like the
best director in the world. What should one
expect though? This is Pat's feature film debut.
Previously he's only directed cheesy TV-series
like Smallville and the abysmal child sci-fi
series "Black Hole High".
Deep Evil does have some entertainment value
though. There is some minor gore and even if
the actors aren't that great I still thought
most of them got a pretty deep character. That
is however the only thing deep about this flick.
Why they decided to call it Deep Evil is beyond
me, that just gave me the impression that it
was going to be about some sea creature. Well,
I guess the aliens did look like the Swamp
Thing but still. For a low-budget DTV horror
flick, it could have been much worse and if
you liked House Of the Dead (which I hated by
the way, I gave it the lowest grade possible)
you will probably find Deep Evil somewhat
entertaining as well.
We get a gory but unfortunately not very clear
spine ripped out scene and we also get some
bubbly, melting skin.
It almost felt as if they had used some of the
original score for House Of The Dead, apart from
the techno music here. Works pretty well though.
While not being excellent, it's still not as
bad as one might expect. It's not an Alien
rip-off in my eyes, I'd rather call it a
House Of The Dead rip-off. It is very
predictable and you can see the twists
coming from five miles distance but as I
said before, it could've been much worse.
Review By: AnthroFred
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