Into the Deep (2024)

"Above Average Modern Exploitation Film"

INTO THE DEEP, is getting a Digital, Blu-ray and DVD release from Signature Entertainment, and, despite the generic box art, it's a film that's definitely more fun than a lot of similar fare currently out there.

As a child, Cassidy (Scout Taylor-Compton from Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN films) was traumatised by seeing her father partially eaten and then dragged to his death by a shark. She's now an oceanographer, but that's thanks mainly to the efforts of her grandfather (Richard Dreyfuss) helping her overcome her fears.

On holiday on Reunion Island (south west of Madagascar) with her husband, the two of them embark on a sea trip on the rickety old boat of her husband's old friend Daemon (Stuart Townsend - THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN's Dorian Gray). 

There's another couple along for the ride, too, and when they all decide to engage in a spot of diving a shark appears and bites the arm off one of them. Then a gang of drug smugglers looking to pick up a cache of heroin that has been dumped nearby turn up and everything gets a whole lot worse.

INTO THE DEEP starts off like a lot of modern-day low budget movies of its type - glamorous location footage, name star wheeled onto give a speech that justifies their name being on the credits, and diving scene that goes on a bit too long and allows you to start thinking you can find better stuff on YouTube. But when the pirates turn up the film suddenly decides to become a proper, good old fashioned action movie, with Jon Seda's snarling pirate leader just the right side of moustache twirling, and plenty of shenanigans and gun battles to liven things up. 

INTO THE DEEP is being sold as yet another shark movie but it's actually better than that, so don't be put off by the poster. If you fancy the modern equivalent of the kind of stuff a studio like Cannon Films used to put out you'll have fun with this. Here's the trailer:

INTO THE DEEP is out from Signature Entertainment on Digital Platforms on Monday 27th January 2025 and Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 3rd February 2025