Avalon: Beyond the Abyss (1999 film)
Avalon: Beyond the Abyss (1999 film), AKA Avalon, Avalon, Adventures of the Abyss
Summary
A team of underwater specialists with high-tech gear are dispatched to an exploding island which is spilling black slime into the ocean, threatening to contaminate the earth, but find the situation is even more bizarre than it seems when a doomsday cult dedicated to a Mayan god is implicated....
Details
- Release Date: 1999
- Country/Language: USA, English
- Genres/Technical: Sci-fi
- Setting: Cthulhu End Times, Near Future, Ocean
- Runtime: 1 hr 32 min
- Starring: Parker Stevenson, Mehgan Heaney-Grier, Billy Rieck
- Director: Philip Sgriccia
- Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- Producer/Production Co: Waterworks BHS, Viacom Productions, Paramount Television
- IMDB Page: (link)
Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: not rated (roughly equivalent to TV-PG for very mild Violence, Adult Content, and Profanity)
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)
I've not seen this, but besides the doomsday cults and soggy oceanic horror, this movie appears to be only debateably "Lovecraftian".
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 (SPOILERS)
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A team of underwater specialists with high-tech gear are dispatched to an exploding island which is spilling black slime into the ocean, threatening to contaminate the earth, but find the situation is even more bizarre than it seems when a doomsday cult dedicated to a Mayan god is implicated....
Notes
Comments, Trivia, Dedication
- In spite of the implications of the suspiciously-similar title, this "mockbuster" movie is actually not a sequel to the more famous and successful The Abyss (1989 film) it no doubt benefits from aping...
Associated Mythos Elements
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