what the hell was that thing some kind of sea monster - Deep Rising (1998) Discussion

[–] black_wolf_1970 20 years ago

In the movie it is given a scientific name which I do not remember but is listed in the sea life journals. but the creature in the movie is a varation a giant from the deep floor, and it is not in the books

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[–] Ian_Malcolm_839 19 years ago

It was "some kind of strange offshoot of the Archaea Ottoia family."

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[–] black_wolf_1970 19 years ago

Archaea Ottoia, thank you, but as I said the Ottoia are listed in journals as WORMS, but very small and the Archaea part of the name are bacteria like organisms, so if this is what the creature was it was a giant bacteria worm. The Archaea Ottoia was a name created for the movie and does not corespond to a real or extinct creature. It does however go with the original short story that the movies was based on in which the creatue was in effect a giant bacteria like creature in appearance almost like a jelly fish which is a colony of organisms.

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[–] willywants 19 years ago

'Short Story'? What short story!?!?

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[–] black_wolf_1970 19 years ago

It was the original script written by Sommers, he edited it to what we saw on screen.
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[–] Dutch90 16 years ago

as I said the Ottoia are listed in journals as WORMS, but very small

Not to mention 500 million years old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoia

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[–] black_wolf_1970 16 years ago

Again has nothing to do with what in the film. Were never even mentioned in the original story written by Sommers. Was just a flashy combo name used for the film.

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[–] tripledot 17 years ago

And to think I was starting to worry.

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[–] sam_theridge991 18 years ago

No, no, no. The island at the end is the same island that Lost takes place on. Think about it.

It's 'would have', not 'would of'.

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[–] Furious_Fenner 18 years ago

"No, no, no. The island at the end is the same island that Lost takes place on. Think about it."

That's genius! The monster noise they hear is just like the monster noise in the pilot...I think we're onto something!

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[–] RidiculousPasta 18 years ago

I had originally thought that before Season 2, hate to burst your bubble, but the monster they're so afraid of is some kind of black smoke crap. Polar bears, strange people, and black smoke. I'd rather they were on an island of killer bacteria.

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[–] Scarlet_Illuminati 18 years ago

I thought is was some sort of tubeworm...

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[–] MoviesFilmsCinema 18 years ago

I just farted.

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[–] jaconey 18 years ago

It was the island that was trying to eat the x-men in giant sized X-men 1

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[–] joshbriggs-2 18 years ago

i think the monsters were some sort of giant psycho-looking hagfish, since that hagfish have jaws lik the monsters in the movie.

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[–] Bloody_Angelus 17 years ago

Why does no one seem to get that there's only one monster in the movie and that the worm things are it's tentacles? It's fairly obvious, people.

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[–] logray-2 16 years ago

The sounds of the sea-creatures is exactly what we hear in Riddick Pitch Black.

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[–] han-skat 16 years ago

I think it was the island(s) in Jurassic Park. You hear the roar, and see the birds fly away in panic, as the T-rex did in JP.

It was a *beep* movie though, hardly deserving even the 5.5 here on imdb. Even Uwe Boll makes em better, or atleast of the same quality, so you see, Boll himself ain't anymore bad than all the *beep* directors and the hyped crap Hollywood spews out at the world.

Reminds me of that other 'giant animal killing humans' movie I saw a while ago, Anaconda. Pfft, movie was crap from beginning to end. Luckilly I rented that *beep* with no expectations of actually seeing a good movie. Don't ask me why I do this? Guess I like to watch *beep* on the screen, hehe.

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[–] Mick1994 10 years ago

That's not all. Deep Rising was made by Hollywood Pictures (Owned by Disney) and Lost was made by ABC (Also owned by Disney).

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[–] black_wolf_1970 16 years ago

Was ruin a good movie by saying it had anything to do with that POS TV series
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[–] scockery 18 years ago

It was the leftover monster from LEVIATHAN.

I can ever figure out how it was all one huge beast that somehow extended it's mouthed tentacles all over the ship and the tentacles could "see" prey, too.

Or how a half digested person could stand up.

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[–] jeffscsr 17 years ago

it didn't see it u mong it responded to vibrations
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[–] Werewolfy 17 years ago

-What the hell was that thing back there, Finnegan?
-I don't know, I didn't get a good look at it!

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[–] Soupascoopa 17 years ago

haha, you fiends.. don't you guys know what it was? the answer is easy..

IT'S DA KRAKKEN!!!

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[–] tjs_mainboi 17 years ago

It was paris hilton with out make up.

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[–] pcablade 17 years ago

What's wrong with you people. It was rosie o'donnels latest offspring.

Now what.

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[–] logray-2 16 years ago

Make up can make you skinny like that?

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[–] Allenj110 17 years ago

I think it was Ron Jeremy.

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[–] Puvwall (1459) 11 days ago

Bump

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[–] Clifford_Starfox 17 years ago

It was a giant kind of squid or octopus with extremely strange tentacles.

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[–] jamasian_man 17 years ago

I bet without that monster the Kraken from POTC 2 would look lame.

I looks like its got the tentacle thing from the graboids, and would be a kraken.

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[–] PapaDocMC 17 years ago

It wasn't just one big monster. It was hundreds of them. They were all like giant mutated hagfish or lamprey. The large monster was the granddaddy of them all. That was like a cross between a giant octopus and a prehistoric monster.

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[–] nicman92 17 years ago

IT WAS THE HEAD OF CTHULHU!!!!!
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[–] aufinger79 17 years ago

These creatures actually exist at a depth of 36,000 feet where the pressure is so great the animal must be large enough and strong enough to withstand 1.16 kilotons/sq.ft. of seawater pressure. It is unlikely they could exist in atmospheric pressure, so you are safe.

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[–] Delzante 17 years ago

Is the ocean THAT deep? Could it go further down?? I think at the start of the film, you see a hint that this "thing" swims or should I say emerges from the deep. And is that a whale bones lying around and there're lots of sunken boats! And then we only see the octopus-like tentacles swims up the surface. Maybe it did come from the island or maybe it has been "hibernating" for years down in the depth of 36,000 feet.

Who knows. But if this was real. Would we find a creature like this in the depth of 36,000 or more?

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[–] Professor_Barnhardt 16 years ago

Challenger Deep is the lowest point in the Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean. In 1960 the U.S. Navy sent the Bathyscaphe Trieste into it and it touched bottom at 35,838 feet. At that depth the pressure is approximately 8 tons per square inch.

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[–] bcr_powermetal_fiend 16 years ago

The movie was inspired by the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, chronicled in his "Call of Cthulhu" story and its spinoffs, such as Dagon. Its an entire fictional universe about these gigantic half octopus/half man creatures that are basically demonic alien gods, stranded in another realm but allowed to come into ours when the mystical island of Ryl'Deh (sp?) surfaces every few thousand years. But then it sinks beneath the waves again. The creatures are obviously patterned after the creatures in the stories, and the island at the end is obviously supposed to be Ryl'Deh.

Other movies you've seen that were inspired by this same story are Hellboy (the octopus-type demons stranded in the alien realm) and the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the "Great Old Ones" who the master was trying to unleash. In Lovecraft's stories they were referred to as the Great Old Ones.)

Metallica has also written two songs based on this story, one is called The Call of Cthulhu, an instrumental that appears on Ride the Lightning, and the other is The Thing that Should not Be, from Master of Puppets. Some of the lines from The Thing that Should not Be were taken directly from the stories.

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[–] Cretin90 16 years ago

Great post. And good songs.

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[–] kitchenaut-1 16 years ago

The 'owner' of the ship specualtes that they are from the Ottoia family 9giant worms from the cambrian period), but at that point nobody realises they are attached to a central body.

I don't know about it being related to jellyfish, as they don't have the muscle to do much outside of water, and certainly not punching through metal. There were also no signs of nematocysts along the tentacles.

It was a purely fictional creature.

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[–] rogerdemarco30 16 years ago

The creature is based off of a real creature, called the "Vampire Squid". You can see it in action here.

http://www.educatedearth.net/video.php?id=3061

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[–] kitchenaut-1 14 years ago

Sorry the Vampire Squid is as far from that creature as a worm or anything real so far mentioned. The best theory I have read is that it was a Lovecraftian creature, as it managed to herd people through the ship using some cunning. Cephalopods show signs of intelligence, but they are natural creatures, and could not adjust to the different pressure at the surface. I think the safest bet is to say it is an ancient creature from 'somewhere else'.

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[–] rogerdemarco30 13 years ago

It was the director himself that mentioned that the creature was based off of the "Vampire Squid". Obviously, the creature in the movie is greatly exaggerated, but that doesn't change the facts.

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