The Deep Ones

So, this has decent production values, but the film falls into comical presentation with the actors. It follows well with the Lovecraft plot, but the fanaticism of the group turns the acting into pantomime. And unfortunately the film doesn't want to answer this or call into question the quality of acting. Harumph.

I stumbled upon the 2020 movie adaptation of a classic H. P. Lovecraft tale titled "The Deep Ones" in 2021. I must admit that I was initially thrilled to find a movie such as this, but my hopes and expectations were immediately lowered, because many of the previous movie adaptations of Lovecraft's works have been dubious at best.

And the 2020 movie "The Deep Ones" from writer and director Chad Ferrin wasn't a movie to break the slump of less than mediocre movie adaptions of Lovecraft's stories. Sure, there were definitely Lovecraftian elements here and it was based on a Lovecraft story, but writer and director Chad Ferrin just didn't capture that essence that permeates all Lovecraft's writings, that particular sense of cosmic dread and sense of hopelessness.

Sure, the movie was watchable, but it just didn't capture the key element that defines the Cthulhu mythos. I managed to sit through "The Deep Ones", but I was hardly entertained, and I can in all honesty say that this is not a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time, nor is it a movie that I would recommend fans of Lovecraft's writing to rush out and get their hands on.

For me, "The Deep Ones" snuck in under the radar, and the movie will just as quietly and unnoticeably fade into oblivion for me. This wasn't a groundbreaking or defining moment in Lovecraftian movie adaptations.

The acting in the movie was actually good enough, and I do enjoy the fact that I am presented with a cast ensemble that I am not previously familiar with. It was just a real shame that the actors and actresses didn't have much of anything to work with here.

My rating of "The Deep Ones" lands on a shallow three out of ten stars. Not really an outstanding foray into the Cthulhu mythos.

Badly written, badly acted, you name it and its bad in this movie. At some point during the filming I feel like someone would have raised the point that this movie was on-fire garbage and that all production should be stopped and all work prints destroyed for the good of humanity. Nope.

If you have a toilet, watch it flush for an hour and a half and you will come away with the exact same experience as this awful, awful film.

This movie has absolutely nothing going for it. Terrible James Welch Henderson, Arkansas 8/13/2021.

I dont know why but all the time movies on Lovecrafts books are so trash. But this one also take the soul from it. It is like cheap hipster fantasy so called movie gathering or just to put it on a cv that the director could make a movie. Where is the terror and the suspense of Lovecraft? The mystery of the mythos and the unknown? I think this guy should change his genre of movies to porn or smthg he could do better in my opinion. I love thrashy movies generally but this is horrible.