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Amphibious Creature of the Deep2010

Name: Amphibious Creature of the Deep
Genre: Monster & Creature, Witchcraft & Occult, Supernatural, Survival
Released: 2010-10-12
Rating: 4.3

“Terror Is About To Surface”

Directed by Brian Yuzna

4.3

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 3.4TMDB 3.7

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Year

2010

Runtime

83 min

The premise

Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of smugglers headquartered on a fishing platform in the middle of the sea. Tamal, an orphan sold into servitude on the fishing platform by his uncle, a 'Dukun' (sorcerer and master of black magic) shaman, begs Skylar to take him away. She empathizes with the boy, who reminds her of her lost daughter, Rebecca, and is determined to help him, not knowing what lurks beneath the dark inky water, waiting to surface. Ever since Tamal arrived, mysterious things begin to happen, until one by one the smugglers will be killed by the terrifying creature from the deep. In the middle of an eerie, violent storm, the animus inside Tamal grows stronger, calling for the ancient creature of his nightmares...

Horror Vault's take

When marine biologist Skylar Shane joins forces with a rugged charter boat captain to hunt for prehistoric specimens off the coast of Sumatra, their expedition takes a deadly detour among a ring of sea-bound smugglers. A mysterious orphan boy named Tamal — sold into servitude by his shaman uncle — draws Skylar's maternal instincts and unwanted attention from something monstrous lurking beneath the waves. As a violent storm closes in on the isolated fishing platform, an ancient terror begins picking off the crew one by one. The line between supernatural curse and primeval predator grows terrifyingly blurred.

Content: Creature Violence, Peril Involving A Child, Stormy Nautical Sequences