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Deep Rising (1998)

★ 6.2 · 806 ratings on TMDB

Full scream ahead.

Deep Rising poster★ 6.2

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.

DirectorStephen Sommers
CastAnthony Heald, Cliff Curtis, Clifton Powell, Derrick O'Connor, Famke Janssen, Jason Flemyng
GenresAction, Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Deep Rising keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E6 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

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