LEVIATHAN

LEVIATHAN
   Film (1989). Gordon Co./Filmauro. Dir George P. Cosmatos, starring Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays. Screenplay David Peoples and Jeb Stuart, based on a story by Peoples. 98 mins. Colour.
   One of several undersea- ALIEN movies of the period, L most resembles (and improves on) DEEPSTAR SIX (1988), especially in the near-identical finale. In thisefficiently scary but routine horror-adventure film, miners at an undersea base discover a sunken Russian submarine which turns out to have been the jettisoned arena for dangerous experiments in genetic manipulation. Two of the miners, infected, mutate into a shapeshifting MONSTER of familiar format, like a downmarket cross between the menaces in ALIEN and the 1982 remake of The THING . Few survive.
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   See also: MONSTER MOVIES.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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