The Abyss (1989 film)

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Summary

"There's everything you've ever known about adventure, and then there's The Abyss." A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

Details

• Release Date: 1989
• Country/Language: US, English
• Genres/Technical: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Thriller, Drama
• Runtime: 2 hr 51 min
• Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn
• Director: James Cameron
• Writer: James Cameron
• Producer/Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Pacific Western, Lightstorm Entertainment
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Ratings

MPAA Ratings

• Rated: PG-13 (Profanity, Violence, brief Nudity)

Tentacle Ratings

A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:

• S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

Not especially "Lovecraftian", though the "tentacle-monster" intelligent race discovered in The Abyss might, at a stretch, be compared to Deep Ones.

Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.

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Synopsis

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A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

Notes

Associated Mythos Elements

• TODO
• race: Deep Ones

See Also

For more soggy deep-sea tentacle horror movies, see:

• Leviathan (1989 film)
• Deep Star Six (1989 film)
• The Rift (1990 film) AKA Endless Descent
• Sphere (1998 film)
• Deep Rising (1998 film)
• Octopus (2000 film)
• Dagon (2001 film)