Deep Blood

Compared to the mass of shark movies, this one is not very different from many others.

From the start of the movie to it's end, a lot of scenes are so generic that they could occur in every other shark movie. You could probably cut out some scenes and exchange them, not many would notice. The story is standard, the effects are below average, the music is boring to annoying.

What really hurts is the amount of useless scenes in this film, nobody needs. Diving down and planting dynamite over and over again feels trashy and I don't understand how somebody can watch this and say "Yes, we need to see him plant three more dynamite packs".

Another really annoying fact is how you can see the back of the pool in some of the shark scenes. Come on, everybody has to spot this.

I recently watched the Italian film 🇮🇹 Deep Blood (1989) on Tubi. The story takes place in a small ocean town where people mysteriously go missing. A group of friends suspects the disappearances are due to shark attacks connected to an ancient Native American curse. Determined to stop the shark, they venture out to sea-unless the shark finds them first.

The film is co-directed by Raffaele Donato (in his only directorial credit) and Joe D'Amato (Death Smiles on a Murderer) and stars Cort McCown (Teen Wolf), Frank Baroni (Double Exposure), Laura Gemser (Black Emmanuel), Charlie Brill (Silk Stalkings), and Mitzi McCall (Crimson Peak).

Deep Blood is a blatant Jaws knockoff with almost no redeeming qualities. The shark footage is lifted from a National Geographic special, and the attack scenes are embarrassingly bad-basically people flailing in the water with red dye bubbling up around them. There is a mechanical shark that appears at the end, but it's underwhelming at best. The Native American curse subplot is unnecessary and absurd, adding nothing to the film.

In conclusion, Deep Blood is a low-budget Jaws rip-off that's not worth your time. I'd rate it 3/10 and recommend skipping it.

Deep Blood (1989)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Joe D'Amato's next to last horror film is yet another Italian rip off of Jaws. After a group of friends take a blood pack, their friendship is put to the test when one of them is eaten by a shark. This is without question the worst of the Italian rips I've seen but I do have two more coming to me. The film has one suspenseful moment, the first attack, but after that everything is pretty dull. There's not a fake shark used throughout the film. Instead we get stock footage of a real shark that naturally never matches up to watch we're seeing in the other footage. Since no fake shark is being used, all of the attacks are rather silly.

I like to think of myself as a bad movie connoisseur. I like to think that the films most people label as the worst of all time I can easily withstand.

But...there are exceptions. I can only recall three movies I have had the misfortune to see that I have repeatedly used the fast-forward button for large chunks of the story. Those movies are The Mighty Gorga, Night of the Seagulls, and this little crap, Deep Blood.

In the world of Jaws ripoffs, this falls off the scale. Deep Blood doesn't have the realistic storyline of the original Crocodile, nor the incredible effects of The Sea Serpent, nor the commentary of Tintorera. No, instead we are treated to a handful of teens from any random failed '80s public access sitcom battling bullies and the local sheriff.

Shark attacks are realized by quick cuts of documentary footage with actors thrashing about in the water, occasionally with a bit of what appears to be orange-ish paint thrown into the water. Not a minute of original shark footage exists in this celluloid waste dump.

Normally, I, or somebody like me, would read a dismal review like this one and say "cool, I gotta find a copy of this!" That's the same thought I had when I read another viewer's review on this very site. How wrong I was.

So...from one bad movie fan to another...let this collect dust on the shelf...grab Up From the Depths or The Great Alligator instead to satisfy your need for something evil lurking in the water.

This is the worst italian movie ever, quite possibly the worst movie of all time! Joe D'Amato is of course no cinematic genius but many of his movies are interesting and watchable. Unfortunatly this is not one of them. Its cheesy and boring....waaaaay boring. If you want a movie to MST3k, get Troll 2, if you want a movie to put someone into a coma, get deep blood!