Listen. Yes, Elizabeth Banks made a movie about a bear that got into a hefty amount of cocaine, and people liked it. But that doesn’t mean we need more movies about other animals that get into someone’s stash. We do not need a Cocaine-Addled Creatures Cinematic Universe.
But we got Deep Fear anyway, because clearly the next best animal to give some coke to is a shark.
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The synopsis for this film is extremely to the point:
Deep Fear is an intense and visceral survival thriller with a mix of storms, drug traffickers and great white sharks.
Don’t confuse this Deep Fear with last year’s Deep Fear, which was set in the catacombs of Paris and did not involve sharks or cocaine, so far as I can tell. This one is directed by Marcus Adams, who seems not to have made a feature film since 2005’s The Marksman (he has made quite a few music videos). It stars Ed Westwick (of relative Gossip Girl fame) along with model Mãdãlina Ghenea (who played Sophia Loren in House of Gucci) and Macarena Gómez (30 Coins).
In the trailer, Ghenea’s character takes off across the sea by herself before running afoul of a trio of drug dealers who take advantage of her kind offer of assistance by ordering her to dive down to their boat’s wreckage to rescue their cocaine. (Presumably it is very carefully packaged.) But there are bodies down there, and as everyone in a movie knows, dead bodies anywhere in the ocean inevitably draw in sharks. The sharks get to the cocaine first. Terror ensues?
Possibly you didn’t even need to know that much. You’re either going to watch a movie about coked-up sharks … or you’re not. It’s not really a situation for wishy-washiness.
Deep Fear is on demand on November 3rd.
