Deep Blood

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.

Almost all the scenes in this movie were filmed in Ocean Springs Ms and Biloxi Ms, but no credit is given. It's not the Mississippi River as it states. I live there and even though Katrina demolished our coast , I can still recognize all the places they filmed.

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.

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!

Just when you finally, absolutely, positively thought it was safe to go back into the water, up pops yet another Italian Jaws rip off—and slap me with a dorsal fin and chew my legs off if this isn't one of the most tedious of them all.

Directed by Raffaele Donato (with more than a bit of uncredited help from the king of Italian sleaze Joe D'amato), Deep Blood is a virtually joyless experience from start to finish, with a dreary plot, umpteen characters that are indistinguishable from one another, terrible acting (nearly all the performers fumble their lines at least once), and unconvincing shark attack scenes comprising of various odds and ends of stock footage badly inter-cut with the frenzied thrashing of the supposed victims.

The dreadful script offers a few unintentionally hilarious scenes, such as the sight of the film's heroes nipping to the local dynamite depot to stock up with enough high explosives to sink a battleship, or the hasty construction of a special shark attracting device that consists of a metal box with a flashing light on top, and further giggles might be had from the witnesses to the shark attacks, who run the gamut of emotions from 'mildy concerned' to 'slightly perturbed'; to be honest though, these brief moments of levity do little to compensate viewers for suffering through the rest of this bloody awful film.