William Eubank's aquatic horror film UNDERWATER starring Kristen Stewart is aiming to bring back the glory days of deep-sea horror flicks such as LEVIATHAN and DEEP STAR SIX. Albeit with a PG-13 rating. And today we have word from Stewart that lots of the film's FX were done practically.
She says:
A lot of stuff that we did was super practical. It was fun, it was not hard to do the movie in terms of trying to fantasize and play pretend. It was hard to do the movie because it was scary and it was genuine! It made a lot of these things happen, we blew a lot of stuff up.
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Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and terror, and brief strong language, the flick sports the following official synopsis:
A crew of underwater researchers must scramble to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory.
William Eubank (THE SIGNAL) directs from a screenplay written by Brian Duffield (THE BABYSITTER) and Adam Cozad (THE LEGEND OF TARZAN). Stewart's co-stars include T.J. Miller (SILICON VALLEY) Vincent Cassel (IRREVERSIBLE), John Gallagher Jr. (HUSH), Jessica Henwick, Mamoudou Athie, and Gunner Wright. Peter Chernin, Tonia Davis, Kevin Halloran, and Jenno Topping produce. UNDERWATER surfaces on January 10, 2020.
TRIVIA: Shooting took place in the spring of 2017. By the time it is released in January of 2020 it will be almost 3 years since it was filmed.