Ep. 14: Deep Rising

Join us as Ryan presents one of his favorite movies of all time, Deep Rising! This movie holds a very special place in his heart, and he'll explain why on this first-ever 4-person episode!

We're joined by regular guest, cinematographer Ryan Kroboth, who walks us through the challenges of shooting an action film almost entirely around and underwater! And we're super excited to welcome new guest, director Brad Grimm! Brad has tons of industry experience, and lends his expertise to conversations about how difficult this movie would be to pitch and finance today, as well as how technically challenging the most infamous gross-out gore shot in this film truly was (it took ten painstaking weeks to finish just three shots!)

Deep Rising is a rare throwback to a brief period in the 90's when action/horror hybrids were getting pretty handsome budgets to play with. Deep Rising, unfortunately, bombed - it had stiff competition from another cruise-in-peril film named, uh, Titanic. But we're here to tell you this one is more than worth a revisit, as it's an incredibly fun ride from an up and coming director would soon deliver a smash hit with The Mummy.

Treat Williams and Famke Janssen battling a Kraken with Duke Nukem guns and like 1000 gallons of gore? C'mon, you know this movie is amazing...

Deep Rising
Directed by Stephen Sommers
1998, USA

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