The episode of The Black Sheep covering DeepStar Six was Written, Narrated, and Edited by Lance Vlcek, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
Sean S. Cunningham will always be primarily remembered for directing the original Friday the 13th, but he has taken the helm of some other movies that are worth checking out, like 1985’s The New Kids and the subject of the latest entry in our Black Sheep video series, DeepStar Six (get it Here).
Released in 1989 and often compared to its fellow ’89 release Leviathan (which has also gotten the Black Sheep treatment), DeepStar Six was scripted Geoff Miller and Lewis Abernathy – which is interesting because movies like Leviathan and DeepStar Six exist because James Cameron’s The Abyss was coming out the same year, and Abernathy and Cameron are pals. Abernathy even had an acting role in Titanic.
Starring Greg Evigan,...
Sean S. Cunningham will always be primarily remembered for directing the original Friday the 13th, but he has taken the helm of some other movies that are worth checking out, like 1985’s The New Kids and the subject of the latest entry in our Black Sheep video series, DeepStar Six (get it Here).
Released in 1989 and often compared to its fellow ’89 release Leviathan (which has also gotten the Black Sheep treatment), DeepStar Six was scripted Geoff Miller and Lewis Abernathy – which is interesting because movies like Leviathan and DeepStar Six exist because James Cameron’s The Abyss was coming out the same year, and Abernathy and Cameron are pals. Abernathy even had an acting role in Titanic.
Starring Greg Evigan,...
- 1/10/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
This big, expensive and well-produced action-suspense Sci-fi epic mostly delivers on its promise to be Aliens at the bottom of the sea. At heart it’s a 1950s pulse-pounder with a bigger monster, a zillion times the budget and a script that does everything but make us care. We appreciate the likable characters but it’s too easy to predict who will ‘get it’ next. The realism factor is not bad at all, although the undersea explorer video training sessions should have given ‘how not to crack up under stress’ more emphasis. And can’t anybody properly mind those pesky nuclear bombs?
DeepStar Six
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1989 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date October 13, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Miguel Ferrer, Nia Peeples, Cindy Pickett, Matt McCoy, Taurean Blacque, Marius Weyers, Elya Baskin, Thom Bray, Ronn Carroll.
Cinematography: Mac Ahlberg
Film Editor: David Handman
Original...
DeepStar Six
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1989 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date October 13, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Miguel Ferrer, Nia Peeples, Cindy Pickett, Matt McCoy, Taurean Blacque, Marius Weyers, Elya Baskin, Thom Bray, Ronn Carroll.
Cinematography: Mac Ahlberg
Film Editor: David Handman
Original...
- 10/17/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
While it may not be Friday, there is still plenty to celebrate this Tuesday the 13th, as we prepare to head back to Camp Crystal Lake with Scream Factory’s impressive Friday the 13th Collection, which brings together all the films from the original franchise, as well as the remake and Freddy vs. Jason as well. Scream Factory also put together a Blu-ray release of one of the most seminal films from my childhood this week—Terror in the Aisles—and they even are giving Motel Hell the Steelbook treatment on Tuesday as well.
Kino Lorber is also keeping busy this week with their special edition Blu for DeepStar Six as well as a SteelBook for Rawhead Rex, and for those of you who dig on The Exorcist sequels, both Dominion and Exorcist: The Beginning come home on Blu-ray this Tuesday, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Other home media...
Kino Lorber is also keeping busy this week with their special edition Blu for DeepStar Six as well as a SteelBook for Rawhead Rex, and for those of you who dig on The Exorcist sequels, both Dominion and Exorcist: The Beginning come home on Blu-ray this Tuesday, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Other home media...
- 10/13/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
If you listened to our Class of 1989 aquatic horror movie episode of Corpse Club, then you know we're big fans of Sean S. Cunningham's DeepStar Six, so we're especially thrilled that the film's submerged scares are coming to Blu-ray on October 13th from Kino Lorber.
As reported on Bloody Disgusting, you can check out the DeepStar Six Blu-ray cover art and full list of special features below (via Facebook):
"Coming October 13th!
Deepstar Six (1989)
• Audio Commentary by Producer/Director Sean S. Cunningham & Visual Effects Supervisor James Isaac
• Featurette with Creature Supervisor Greg Nicotero & Creature Designer Robert Kurtzman
• Featurette with Composer Harry Manfredini
• Original Epk
• Extended Vintage Interview Clips
• Behind-the-Scenes Footage
• Theatrical Trailer
• TV Spot
• Image Gallery
• Limited Edition O-Card
• Reversible Art
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles
Color 99 Minutes 2.35:1 Rated R
Not All Aliens Come From Space! From producer/director Sean S. Cunningham, the creator of...
As reported on Bloody Disgusting, you can check out the DeepStar Six Blu-ray cover art and full list of special features below (via Facebook):
"Coming October 13th!
Deepstar Six (1989)
• Audio Commentary by Producer/Director Sean S. Cunningham & Visual Effects Supervisor James Isaac
• Featurette with Creature Supervisor Greg Nicotero & Creature Designer Robert Kurtzman
• Featurette with Composer Harry Manfredini
• Original Epk
• Extended Vintage Interview Clips
• Behind-the-Scenes Footage
• Theatrical Trailer
• TV Spot
• Image Gallery
• Limited Edition O-Card
• Reversible Art
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles
Color 99 Minutes 2.35:1 Rated R
Not All Aliens Come From Space! From producer/director Sean S. Cunningham, the creator of...
- 8/10/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
"Will they survive?" ITN Movies has debuted an official UK trailer for a South African western drama titled Children of the Storm, which originally premiered at the Silwerskerm Film Festival last year. The film's original title is The Story of Racheltjie De Beer, but that's only in South Africa because outside of that country no one really knows who Racheltjie De Beer is. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Brett Michael Innes. Known as an "Afrikaans tale for all South Africans", this is inspired by the cherished tale passed down from generation to generation. The beloved tale of a young girl whose sacrifice saved her little brother's life after the two got lost in a snowstorm in the late 1800s. Starring Zonika de Vries, Stian Bam, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Antoinette Louw, Beate Olwagen, Johannes Jordaan, and Seputla Sebogodi. We don't hear any dialogue in the...
- 4/28/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Cast includes Long Walk To Freedom’s Deon Lotz.
Ster-Kinekor will release local production Faan Se Trein in South Africa in January 2014.
The Afrikaans-language family film is written and directed by Koos Roets and produced by Helena Spring.
The cast features Willie Esterhuizen, Deon Lotz (Long Walk to Freedom), Marius Weyers (Blood Diamond), Sandra Kotze (Die Storie van Klara Viljee), Anel Alexander (Semi-Soet), Nicola Hanekom (Jimmy in Pink), Cobus Rossouw and Gamiet Petersen.
The story, likened to Forrest Gump, is about a simple man whose inheritance inspires greed in his tiny Karoo village. It is based on the 1975 hit play Faan se Trein.
Spring who describes the film as “a haunting, yet feel good story about greed and human values”.
The film has already won a number of prizes at the M-Net Silverscreen awards.
Ster-Kinekor will release local production Faan Se Trein in South Africa in January 2014.
The Afrikaans-language family film is written and directed by Koos Roets and produced by Helena Spring.
The cast features Willie Esterhuizen, Deon Lotz (Long Walk to Freedom), Marius Weyers (Blood Diamond), Sandra Kotze (Die Storie van Klara Viljee), Anel Alexander (Semi-Soet), Nicola Hanekom (Jimmy in Pink), Cobus Rossouw and Gamiet Petersen.
The story, likened to Forrest Gump, is about a simple man whose inheritance inspires greed in his tiny Karoo village. It is based on the 1975 hit play Faan se Trein.
Spring who describes the film as “a haunting, yet feel good story about greed and human values”.
The film has already won a number of prizes at the M-Net Silverscreen awards.
- 9/16/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Red Dust
Screened at the Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Both documentaries and feature films have dealt with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa's extraordinary tribunal that attempted to heal the wounds of apartheid through confession and amnesty rather than revenge and retribution.
On balance, the documentary approach has worked best. Fiction has a difficult time competing with the brutal reality of what happened in South Africa during the dark decades of repression, torture and murder. Furthermore, fiction demands third-act resolutions that fly in the face of South African reality: The hurt suffered under apartheid may be forgiven but never truly "resolved."
Red Dust, a feature made mostly by South Africans and starring Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, at least understands the problem and succeeds to some degree in having it both ways: It solves a murder mystery, but leaves open and raw the wounds suffered by its victims.
Swank's presence will make the movie accessible in North America, but its success in adult urban cinemas may be limited in that most viewers are unfamiliar with the reconciliation commission.
Adapting Gillian Slovo's novel, Troy Kennedy Martin's script tells the story of an amnesty application filed by a cop, Dirk Hendricks (Jamie Bartlett), for the torture of political activist Alex Mpondo, played by the talented Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dirty Pretty Things), who is now a Member of Parliament. So brutal was the beating that Alex cannot remember what happened to Steve Sizela, a friend arrested along with him, who was never seen again.
Swank plays Sarah Barcant, a South African-born attorney who fled that country years before to live in New York (which presumably explains her completely American accent). At the behest of her mentor, activist Ben Hoffman (Marius Weyers), she returns to her homeland to represent both Alex, who opposes the amnesty, and Steve's family.
Two questions hang over the hearing: Will Hendricks' testimony, which must be fully truthful for amnesty to be granted, implicate his unrepentant former superior, Piet Muller (Ian Roberts), in Steve's disappearance? And will Alex remember what role he may have played in Steve's fate?
British television director Tom Hooper, making his feature debut, maintains a lively pace, and the story contains enough twists and turns to sustain interest in what is, after all, a 14-year-old murder case. Unfortunately, the film focuses more on Sarah and her reaction to what she learns instead of the true protagonist, Alex, who risks his future life and career on the outcome.
This focus tips the balance of the movie into more of an intellectual experience than an emotional one. Whether the case will persuade Sarah to remain in South Africa to help rebuild the country is not nearly as compelling as Alex's desperate search for the truth about his friend and his possible involvement in his fate.
As it is, Swank's role is far too reactive to carry the film, a task that falls to Ejiofor, who delivers a complex and empathetic performance as a man willing to get torn apart by the truth.
Cinematographer Larry Smith and designer Mark Wilby take advantage of the awesome landscapes and rugged townships of a country we are still getting to know in movies to create a striking environment for the tragic tale to unfold.
The film goes a long way toward explaining the healing philosophy and methodology behind the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which could serve an example to all damaged peoples of how best to seek justice.
RED DUST
Distant Horizon & BBC Films in association with Videovision Entertainment and Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa
Credits:
Director: Tom Hooper
Writer: Troy Kennedy-Martin
Based on the novel by: Gillian Slovo
Producers: Ruth Caleb, David M. Thompson, Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Director of photography: Larry Smith
Production designer: Mark Wilby
Music: Rob Lane
Editor: Avril Beukes
Cast:
Sarah Barcant: Hilary Swank
Alex Mpondo: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Dirk Hendricks: Jamie Bartlett
Ben Hoffman: Marius Weyers
Piet Muller: Ian Roberts
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 110 minutes...
TORONTO -- Both documentaries and feature films have dealt with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa's extraordinary tribunal that attempted to heal the wounds of apartheid through confession and amnesty rather than revenge and retribution.
On balance, the documentary approach has worked best. Fiction has a difficult time competing with the brutal reality of what happened in South Africa during the dark decades of repression, torture and murder. Furthermore, fiction demands third-act resolutions that fly in the face of South African reality: The hurt suffered under apartheid may be forgiven but never truly "resolved."
Red Dust, a feature made mostly by South Africans and starring Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, at least understands the problem and succeeds to some degree in having it both ways: It solves a murder mystery, but leaves open and raw the wounds suffered by its victims.
Swank's presence will make the movie accessible in North America, but its success in adult urban cinemas may be limited in that most viewers are unfamiliar with the reconciliation commission.
Adapting Gillian Slovo's novel, Troy Kennedy Martin's script tells the story of an amnesty application filed by a cop, Dirk Hendricks (Jamie Bartlett), for the torture of political activist Alex Mpondo, played by the talented Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dirty Pretty Things), who is now a Member of Parliament. So brutal was the beating that Alex cannot remember what happened to Steve Sizela, a friend arrested along with him, who was never seen again.
Swank plays Sarah Barcant, a South African-born attorney who fled that country years before to live in New York (which presumably explains her completely American accent). At the behest of her mentor, activist Ben Hoffman (Marius Weyers), she returns to her homeland to represent both Alex, who opposes the amnesty, and Steve's family.
Two questions hang over the hearing: Will Hendricks' testimony, which must be fully truthful for amnesty to be granted, implicate his unrepentant former superior, Piet Muller (Ian Roberts), in Steve's disappearance? And will Alex remember what role he may have played in Steve's fate?
British television director Tom Hooper, making his feature debut, maintains a lively pace, and the story contains enough twists and turns to sustain interest in what is, after all, a 14-year-old murder case. Unfortunately, the film focuses more on Sarah and her reaction to what she learns instead of the true protagonist, Alex, who risks his future life and career on the outcome.
This focus tips the balance of the movie into more of an intellectual experience than an emotional one. Whether the case will persuade Sarah to remain in South Africa to help rebuild the country is not nearly as compelling as Alex's desperate search for the truth about his friend and his possible involvement in his fate.
As it is, Swank's role is far too reactive to carry the film, a task that falls to Ejiofor, who delivers a complex and empathetic performance as a man willing to get torn apart by the truth.
Cinematographer Larry Smith and designer Mark Wilby take advantage of the awesome landscapes and rugged townships of a country we are still getting to know in movies to create a striking environment for the tragic tale to unfold.
The film goes a long way toward explaining the healing philosophy and methodology behind the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which could serve an example to all damaged peoples of how best to seek justice.
RED DUST
Distant Horizon & BBC Films in association with Videovision Entertainment and Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa
Credits:
Director: Tom Hooper
Writer: Troy Kennedy-Martin
Based on the novel by: Gillian Slovo
Producers: Ruth Caleb, David M. Thompson, Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Director of photography: Larry Smith
Production designer: Mark Wilby
Music: Rob Lane
Editor: Avril Beukes
Cast:
Sarah Barcant: Hilary Swank
Alex Mpondo: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Dirk Hendricks: Jamie Bartlett
Ben Hoffman: Marius Weyers
Piet Muller: Ian Roberts
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 110 minutes...
- 9/15/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Red Dust
Screened at the Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Both documentaries and feature films have dealt with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa's extraordinary tribunal that attempted to heal the wounds of apartheid through confession and amnesty rather than revenge and retribution. On the balance, the documentary approach has worked best. Fiction has a difficult time competing with the brutal reality of what happened in South Africa during the dark decades of repression, torture and murder. Furthermore, fiction demands third-act resolutions that fly in the face of South African reality: The hurt suffered under apartheid may be forgiven but never truly "resolved."
Red Dust, a feature made mostly by South Africans and starring Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, at least understands the problem and succeeds to some degree in having it both ways: It solves a murder mystery, but leaves open and raw the wounds suffered by its victims.
Swan's presence will make the movie accessible in North America, but its success in adult urban cinemas may be limited in that most viewers are unfamiliar with the TRC.
Adopting Gillian Slovo's novel, Troy Kennedy Martin's script tells the story of an amnesty application filed by a cop, Dirk Hendricks (Jamie Bartlett), for the torture of political activist Alex Mpondo, played by the talented Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dirty Pretty Things), who is now a Member of Parliament. So brutal was the beating, Alex cannot remember what happened to Steve Sizela, a friend arrested along with him, who was never seen again.
Swank plays Sarah Barcant, a South African-born attorney who fled that country years before to live in New York (which presumably explains her completely American accent). At the behest of her mentor, activist Ben Hoffman (Marius Weyers), she returns to her homeland to represent both Alex, who opposes the amnesty, and Steve's family.
Two questions hang over the hearing: Will Henricks' testimony, which must be fully truthful for amnesty to be granted, implicate his unrepentant former superior, Piet Muller (Ian Roberts), in Steve's disappearance? And will Alex remember what role he played in Steve's fate?
British television director Tom Hooper, making his feature debut, maintains a lively pace, and the story contains enough twists and turns to sustain interest in what is, after all, a 14-year-old murder case. Unfortunately, the film focuses more on Sarah and her reaction to what she learns instead of the true protagonist, Alex, who risks his future life and career on the outcome.
This focus tips the balance of the movie into more of an intellectual experience than an emotional one. Whether the case will persuade Sarah to remain in South Africa to help rebuild the country is not nearly as compelling as Alex's desperate search for the truth about his friend and his possible involvement in his fate.
As it is, Swank's role is far too reactive to carry the film, a task that falls to Ejiofor, who delivers a complex and empathetic performance as a man willing to get torn apart by the truth.
Cinematographer Larry Smith and designer Mark Wilby take advantage of the awesome landscapes and rugged townships of a country we are still getting to know in movies to create a striking environment for the tragic tale to unfold.
The film goes a long way toward explaining the healing philosophy and methodology behind the TRC, which could serve an example to all damaged peoples of how best to seek justice.
RED DUST
Distant Horizon & BBC Films in association with Videovision Entertainment and Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa
Credits:
Director: Tom Hooper
Writer: Troy Kennedy-Martin
Based on the novel by: Gillian Slovo
Producers: Ruth Caleb, David M. Thompson, Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Director of photography: Larry Smith
Production designer: Mark Wilby
Music: Rob Lane
Editor: Avril Beukes.
Cast:
Sarah Barcant: Hilary Swank
Alex Mpondo: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Dirk Hendricks: Jamie Bartlett
Ben Hoffman: Marius Weyers
Piet Muller: Ian Roberts
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 110 minutes...
TORONTO -- Both documentaries and feature films have dealt with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa's extraordinary tribunal that attempted to heal the wounds of apartheid through confession and amnesty rather than revenge and retribution. On the balance, the documentary approach has worked best. Fiction has a difficult time competing with the brutal reality of what happened in South Africa during the dark decades of repression, torture and murder. Furthermore, fiction demands third-act resolutions that fly in the face of South African reality: The hurt suffered under apartheid may be forgiven but never truly "resolved."
Red Dust, a feature made mostly by South Africans and starring Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, at least understands the problem and succeeds to some degree in having it both ways: It solves a murder mystery, but leaves open and raw the wounds suffered by its victims.
Swan's presence will make the movie accessible in North America, but its success in adult urban cinemas may be limited in that most viewers are unfamiliar with the TRC.
Adopting Gillian Slovo's novel, Troy Kennedy Martin's script tells the story of an amnesty application filed by a cop, Dirk Hendricks (Jamie Bartlett), for the torture of political activist Alex Mpondo, played by the talented Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dirty Pretty Things), who is now a Member of Parliament. So brutal was the beating, Alex cannot remember what happened to Steve Sizela, a friend arrested along with him, who was never seen again.
Swank plays Sarah Barcant, a South African-born attorney who fled that country years before to live in New York (which presumably explains her completely American accent). At the behest of her mentor, activist Ben Hoffman (Marius Weyers), she returns to her homeland to represent both Alex, who opposes the amnesty, and Steve's family.
Two questions hang over the hearing: Will Henricks' testimony, which must be fully truthful for amnesty to be granted, implicate his unrepentant former superior, Piet Muller (Ian Roberts), in Steve's disappearance? And will Alex remember what role he played in Steve's fate?
British television director Tom Hooper, making his feature debut, maintains a lively pace, and the story contains enough twists and turns to sustain interest in what is, after all, a 14-year-old murder case. Unfortunately, the film focuses more on Sarah and her reaction to what she learns instead of the true protagonist, Alex, who risks his future life and career on the outcome.
This focus tips the balance of the movie into more of an intellectual experience than an emotional one. Whether the case will persuade Sarah to remain in South Africa to help rebuild the country is not nearly as compelling as Alex's desperate search for the truth about his friend and his possible involvement in his fate.
As it is, Swank's role is far too reactive to carry the film, a task that falls to Ejiofor, who delivers a complex and empathetic performance as a man willing to get torn apart by the truth.
Cinematographer Larry Smith and designer Mark Wilby take advantage of the awesome landscapes and rugged townships of a country we are still getting to know in movies to create a striking environment for the tragic tale to unfold.
The film goes a long way toward explaining the healing philosophy and methodology behind the TRC, which could serve an example to all damaged peoples of how best to seek justice.
RED DUST
Distant Horizon & BBC Films in association with Videovision Entertainment and Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa
Credits:
Director: Tom Hooper
Writer: Troy Kennedy-Martin
Based on the novel by: Gillian Slovo
Producers: Ruth Caleb, David M. Thompson, Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Director of photography: Larry Smith
Production designer: Mark Wilby
Music: Rob Lane
Editor: Avril Beukes.
Cast:
Sarah Barcant: Hilary Swank
Alex Mpondo: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Dirk Hendricks: Jamie Bartlett
Ben Hoffman: Marius Weyers
Piet Muller: Ian Roberts
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 110 minutes...
- 9/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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