Deep Rising (1998) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - January 29, 1998

Being a monster movie fan, I was, of course, super excited about there being an other sea monster movie opening at a theatre near me. In this case, it was Brenden Concord 14. That is where I saw Deep Rising for the first time.

While my expectations were not throughly met, I was far more satisfied and entertained by the film than my brother, who thought it was terrible.

My primary complaint with the film was that Rob Bottin's monster design was created via CGI, not with practical effects. Granted that the option they went with did give the creature a range of visual motion that would have been a time-consuming struggle to achieve via miniatures or stop motion. But I sure would have loved to see them try.

At least the monster's partially digested leftovers were on step practical effects.

I also love darkly comedic the tagline featured in the trailer: "Women and children first. You're next."