OK, a bit more serious discussion (from me, anyway) about the movie
From the Depths (2020).
Apologies about the title mix-up, but one sometimes struggles to find the real titles of movies posted on YouTube.
I actually thought it was perhaps a low-budget, but relatively good movie.
Although, yeah there is a campy quality about it, and some honorific reference to the decomposing corpse visitation of
An American Werewolf in
London (the original postmodern horror-comedy), or the very racialized, homophobic fears of the comatose white protagonist in
Sublime
(2007).
I see it only got one star from IMBd:
www.imdb.com...
One of the six main characters/actors in the film on this site is Flea Collum as Brody (the doggie).
A reminder that Brody, and his absences and presences are quite a hint in the narrative.
Both the protagonist Liz and her lover Roberta are well acted, with the somewhat stony expressions of the latter a clear hint that she is some kind of
spiritual guide, only mirroring the appearance of the doctor.
Clearly a very patient and loving being, considering the two "corpses" have almost convinced Liz to knife her to death, and at some point the audience
is led to believe that Roberta must be up to something (I mean being queer and black, which I think is deliberately supposed to play with audience
prejudices). It could also be Liz's prejudices (why for one moment would she believe her lying and cheating sister and boyfriend over Roberta)?
Significantly, eventually she doesn't believe them, but the fact that she considered it ... well you can see which "great white" tummy consumes her -
is that hell or a release? Almost like a post-Jaws Hieronymus Bosch imagery of hell (or purgatory) as being eaten.
Whatever the case here, I think the suggestion is that Liz is not "heavenly" material as yet.
The camp elements include the make-up, the dodgy shark(s), or the fact that three people were massacred in one shark attack (and there's no references
to World War Two where under extreme circumstances that historically occurred).
I think the love story element between Liz and Roberta is really touching and romantic at times, and I hope given time, this will be more of a
cult-classic than currently assumed.
edit on 2-9-2021 by halfoldman because: (no reason given)