Deep Star Six

• Taurean Blacque: Captain Phillip Laidlaw
• Nancy Everhard: Joyce Collins
• Greg Evigan: McBride
• Miguel Ferrer: Snyder
• Nia Peeples: Scarpelli
• Matt McCoy: James Richardson
• Cindy Pickett: Dr. Diane Norris
• Marius Weyers: Dr. John Van Gelder
• Elya Baskin: Burciaga
• Thom Bray: John Hodges
• Ronn Carroll: Osborne

Deep Star Six is an American science fiction film directed by Sean S. Cunningham from the year 1989.

Action

The crew members of the underwater station Deep Star Six build a rocket launcher for the military. By blowing up an underwater cave a prehistoric creature is freed. This acts on the station. In response, the crew members all missiles are preparing for the evacuation of the station, said Snyder due to an incorrect classification of the threat ( "hostile behavior " stands for a military enemy ) destroyed by detonation of the warheads. Thus, a blast wave is triggered, which severely damaged the station and makes the evacuation almost impossible.

The creature kills a crew member after another. The nuclear reactor of the station is threatening to explode. When only McBride and two women remain alive, McBride swims to a small submarine, trying to escape with all three. Prior to his return, the women are faced with the creature that kills one of the women. McBride and the other woman Joyce spend some time in the decompression chamber, they escape in time before the explosion of the reactor. You can take the U- boat on the water surface. They apply a lifeboat to the water, at this moment appeared the beings on. McBride kills it, by putting the submarine on fire and bring to explode. At the end you can see McBride and Joyce row ashore in the rescue boat.

Reviews

Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times of January 13, 1989, the exotic underwater world WOULD not interesting in the film than an average closet of a bedroom. The film show mainly the command center with " flashing lights ". He was " flat" and " predictable "; the tension was " minimal".

The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was an " exciting underwater adventure genre with usual elements." Its equipment is " cheap", he was " cut edgy ", but "surprisingly confident in image composition ." The underlying hidden " crude ideology " was " outrageous as well as placed ".

Background

The film played in theaters in the USA about a 8.1 million U.S. dollars.

Certification

The film was released in its original theatrical version of the FSK over 18 years. This version was also adopted on the DVD, making these many years was long not released for 18 years. Only through a re-examination in 2008 was the film uncut FSK 16 release.