2/10
Terrible piss-poor
Not For Me.
Right the underwater
Work was awesome,
Not quite seen it as inclusive for us the audience to be apart of. That was some of the best underwater work I've seen,
Shit that would impress
James Cameron.
But everything else just falls apart the moment this lackluster movie begins.
I hated Ben and Tina
Right from the get go,
Super annoying and they just irritated me to fcuk.
I actually said at the beginning god I hope they both get got
With whatever the problem is in this movie.
Then the french kicked in
Without subtitles which
Went on for way way to long,
(even Ben made a joke about
Having no subtitles,
I wasn't laughing).
The plot and reason and
None conclusion was utter nonsense and complete
Bollocks. What was happening in the house was frickin awesome, was the enough of that....absolutely not.
Then the End.
"WAIT....WHAT"
(get the.....outa here).
I was waiting to see this one
as I love this kinda stuff
And i'm a massive fan
Of found footage scares,
This however was just
An Epic Waste Of
My Time.
Verdict: This could
Have Risin to the top
Of being a great horror
Instead it
Sank
Hard and Fast and
Drownded me in Boredom
And I just found like the hole
Affair robbed me of my
Life's Oxygen.
2 Thumbs Down.
The Deep House is plagued by a problem of twos. Meaning there are opposing forces slowing it down, and keeping it from being a good movie.
Throughout the short runtime, we only have two characters, and they are both completely annoying. We have Ben, who is grossly ambitious, to the point of being self-centered and mean.
Then we have Tina, who is whiny through most of the film. Look, I get it, being trapped in a haunted house is bad enough, but add to that being underwater and life sucks. Trouble is, Tina's dragging her feet well before that point. She's clearly just not open to the YouTube life like Ben is.
This is what I mean by a problem of twos: Option 1. Have a couple who are both on board for this or 2. Give us a couple who are annoying and we'll hate. Why choose the latter?
Onto the way this is filmed. We already have a couple who is filming their entire journey, so it's the perfect excuse for a found-footage movie, but It's also blended with third-person shots. Why? Pick one. This would have worked much better as POV the whole time.
On to the plot. This is a standard haunted-house movie, only underwater. Great idea. It's already scary being underwater as a land mammal, but then you throw in ghosts. Trouble is, how much information are we going to give our drivers? Too much seems way too convenient, and too little could make it confusing. No surprise, The Deep House gives too much.
Another set of twos is making the movie bilingual. Nothing is going to take me out of a movie more than having to read subtitles.
Does everyone remember the subtitles in The Blair Witch Project, and Cloverfield? No? That's because it's only going to hurt a movie that is largely found footage.
The final nail in the coffin: Tina dies. Does a ghost kill her? No, she drowns just inches from the surface of the lake. What a waste of time. What a waste of a good idea for a horror movie.
Okay, after reading another review, I saw that there was a post-credit scene. I watched it. It adds nothing to the story.
Review by CaesarBlockedParent2021-11-06T13:19:55Z
This is the newest horror film from French duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury following Tina and Ben who are a couple of young youtubers specialized in abandoned building exploration videos. They're on trip for their new video. After reaching their destination, the lake is too crowded and obviously isn't suitable for diving. Lucky for them there's a local there who knows a remote lake area where a preserved house is completely submerged and he agrees to take them there. This is probably the best haunted house film I've ever seen. It's fun, unique, tense, and actually scary. The subgenre is tiring already so seeing film like this is refreshing. It still has the usual haunted house formula but the fact that it's underwater makes it a lot scarier. The acting's mostly ok, there are moments where I find them annoying but never in an irritating way. The highlight of the film is the setting and visuals. They're fantastic and elevate the film a lot since the exploration aspect fills the most runtime. The water is dark and murky giving you very limited vision and there's a lot of creepy floating objects. Since it's underwater, it got me anxiety filled throughout and the oxygen level as a time bomb effectively increase the tension.