DeepStar Six (Special Edition) aka Deep Star Six [Blu-ray]

If you’d like the older style scary movies about monsters in the ocean this is a good one

DVD came in perfect condition

This movie is just pure nostalgia. Campy. Sexist. A bit racist.But it’s a demon lobster …

Love this movie

Good SciFi Movie, Good packaging, Plays good

Good

Better acting but a lower budget than Leviathan (1989), and it blaringly shows. Monster movie fans should stick to Leviathan, but all in all this shouldn't be too disappointing.Deep Star Six follows several scientists and NAVY crew setting up a deep sea missile silo. They find that their missile platform site is on top of a large cavern system which Scarpelli (Nia Peeples; Werewolf: The Beast Among Us) is dying to investigate for new deep sea marine species. However, Captain Phillip (Taurean Blacque; Rocky II) and crew won't have it and they instead detonate the caverns to somehow "secure" the site and send down a probe to take video and photos of a cavern separated from the rest of the ocean for upwards of millions of years. They lose the probe and send a small transport to recover it. This does not go well. They get attacked by "something" in the cavern and contact is lost--presumably they're dead.No sign of the monster yet in this low budget flick, just a lot of creature POV shots as it swims about. It must be sizable because it wastes no time saying "hi" to the Star Six crew by ramming the crap out of their vessel causing considerable damage. Additional powerful checks to the facility nearly push it into the deep chasm they created.Because this is largely written around the characters, who rarely encounter the creature, this feels more like a disaster movie in which things are just "happening around the characters" instead of a monster movie where the creature "does things to the characters." So any suspense is character-driven as viewers are given little to fear in terms of this mysterious creature, which seems to respond to the facility's lights aggressively. When we do see the monster it's pretty cool-looking though. Really.From the movie's start, this sea monster seemed very large and extremely fast since it could ram the deep sea station and move it! It had more effect on that station than I would on a SmartCar with a dedicated tackle. However, when we finally meet are deep sea foe we see that this giant crocodile-lobster with sort of a Tremors' mouth couldn't weigh more than 5000 pounds (if not less?) and appears incapable of swimming faster than, say, maybe 15-25 mph--this thing is no sleek shark. Big? Sure. Big enough to push a sea station the size of a large house into a chasm? NO WAY!!!Shots of the station and ocean exterior are thoroughly unimpressive, but hardly matter for one's enjoyment of this movie. Its budgetary wounds are stitched by credible dialogue and, for the nature of the movie, effective acting by a cast representing a solid range of characters. Dr. Norris (Cindy Picket; Sleepwalkers), the medical officer, is most affected by the loss of a crewman. And when the captain suffers a fatal injury Joyce (Nancy Everhard; Urban Legends: Bloody Mary) and McBride (Greg Evigan; Tek War) are forced to assume leadership roles. Jim (Matt McCoy; The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), Scarpelli's boyfriend, provides the comic relief.Snyder (Miguel Ferrer; RoboCop, Tales from the Crypt, The Stand), the whiny high-strung tech on board, already wanted to be home since his four-month tour had already been extended. This fool detonates their missile a little too close to the station. This does not go well. This is his first in a series of major screw-ups including accidently killing a crewman with some weird air-pumping harpoon and getting himself killed in via decompression.The cast is widdled down to a few who find a way to kill the aberration. Or did they?

One of my favorite movies.

First time in proper aspec ratio.Like seeing it for the first time.Great little monster movie.Now if only James Cameron would release a HD version of The Abyss.I'll have all the underwater movies from that year.Don't forget Leviathon.

Esta cinta de 1989 dirigida por Sean S. Cunningham es una muestra de lo buenas que eran las películas de sci-fi/horror en los 80’s. El género de monstruos marinos ha sido llevado muy poco a la pantalla grande, y pocos han sido los buenos resultados: Leviathan, Deep Rising y recientemente Underwater.Con esta cinta tenemos nostalgia ochentera, un monstruo que hoy en día causa más risa en vez de miedo, efectos prácticos en vez de especiales y un pretexto de historia para que el monstruo llegue y termine con la tripulación.En lo personal, de mis favoritas.Editada por KL StudioClassics con toneladas de material extra y un transfer que vale la pena.El Blu-ray tiene audio en inglés y subtítulo en inglés.NO tiene audio ni subtítulo en español.

J'aime le film, malheureusement ce dvd est en anglais et pan scan.la description technique est fausse puisqu'il ne comporte pas de piste française

...pero viene sin un sólo extra, lo que se podría perdonar, pero el sonido, aunque mantiene el excelente y nostálgico doblaje en castellano original, está defectuoso; no se oye bien en algunos pequeños tramos del metraje, sencillamente porque al hacer la copia para DVD, no se molestaron en remasterizar la banda de sonido, porque imagino que creerían que no les resultaba rentable. Es como si cogemos una cinta en VHS e, independientemente de cómo esté, hacemos una copia a un DVD. Una pena, aunque la peli sea entretenida.

This is a classic 80's monster movie with a great story and a good cast, the monster in the movie is awesome and looks very cool for oldskool retro creature effects! Worth a low price any day, this movie was directed by Sean Cunningham who did the original Friday the 13th in around 1980.