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It's 2022 and I'm still annoyed at this movie...

He's a YouTuber.. Fine. Haunted houses.. Fine.. But 1. They followed a random stranger to a "secret location" 2. They just prepared like that to dive and film a haunted house on the fly.. Ok 3. Nothing in the house would make it on YouTube.

4. The actually got in the house... Urgh!!!

5. Her first hallucination a actual woman leaves.

6. Is the main character in on it?.. No way he that dumb 7. IS HE POSESSED OR NOOOOOOT!! GOOD GOD.. sometimes in the same scene he switched back and forth.. Idk if it's bad acting or poor writing.. 8. WHY NOT USE THE MAGIC ROBOT TO DO EVERYTHING FROM OUTSIDE THE WATER????

9. the dead ppl want to kill them.. Whoppty doo.. 10. Let's explain that we are evil to these random ppl because we love their "fear" but we already POSESSED one.. Or we think we did.. 11. OH BUT LET'S KILL HIM ANYWAY!!!

12.. WHY... DID THE GIRL DIE.. for what.. Like why?.. Becuase she lied about holding her breathe?.. Pointless cuz the movie just ends there.. 13. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SON THAT LEAD THEM THERE?!?!? IS HE JUST GOING TO FIND MORE DUMB SUBBA DIVERS TO SEND TO THE HOUSE??? SO HE EVIL?.. BUT WHY???

Lmao.. One of the worst movies ever.. Whole thing has no point.. It's just a video of two random people dying under water...

Oh my lord. 75% of this movie is the woman screaming Ben Ben Ben Ben. Over and over and over. To the director of this movie, you made your point, she was looking for Ben. Was it really necessary for her to scream it 100 times during the movie. That alone brought the rating down a few but the ending and the whole movie being in the dark where you only see 25% of the screen and the rest is black and several other reasons. My recommendation skip this piece of garbage. You'll be more satisfied sorting your sock drawer then watching this movie.

I literally couldn't wait for them to die. I wish these morons would've been tortured to death. The guy is a complete clown. He wants to take shots of dead bodies, but no social media site will let you post that.

Okay, so I have to preface this by saying that I watched this based on the pedigree of the writer/directors without so much as glancing at the trailer. By the writers/directors of Inside, one of the greatest horror movies ever made?!? I couldn't download this movie fast enough!

So the premise is that there is a Youtuber couple who want to take their channel to the next level by scuba diving to an intact house at the bottom of a lake. Okay, I've seen hundreds of horror movies in my time, but I have never seen or heard of one where the setting is submerged house, meters below the surface of the water. It was nice to be given something unique for a change, and it started off really promising....

and then it fizzles into a wholehearted MEH of a movie that could have been so much more if they just pushed it further. First of all, the physics inside the house were all over the place. I mean, I get that they needed to allow the couple to freely traverse the place without constantly bumping into chairs and phones and stuff, but come on! We had certain objects just laying there, as if they weren't submerged at all, just sitting on desks like they were above water. The next scene, there'd be pianos and chairs floating all over the place. At least be consistent with your setting!

Then it's the actual "horror" in this horror film. Jump scares annoy the living hell out of me, and this movie was just one jump scare after another. I mean, are these the same guys that made a movie about a nurse cutting a baby out a woman's stomach? What happened? When did they start making juvenile, tween horror films that rely on jump scares instead of being truly disturbing? I was hoping for a twisted plot about the ghosts of a deranged family trapped in a house after it became part of a dam. What I got was a lame story about child sacrifice, revenge of the town's people and not even a full exposition, just some half-hearted explanation that made me roll my eyes in a "we've seen this a hundred times" type of fashion.

Man, I really wanted to like this movie, and it really did have everything going for it; the acting was good, the setup was strong, and the actual action was mostly clean and easy to see. But then the "ghosts" all looked like they were holding their breaths and it just ruined everything from that moment on.

Waste potential from two dudes who could have done so much more, but I guess profit beats artistic integrity these days, doesn't it? What a shame.

At least the ending was realistic and wasn't ruined by American horror movie standards.

This was meh and good grief how many times does she say ben? It had a newer idea horror underwater I think thats a first but could have been so much better. Ben ben ben ben ben ben.

Two YouTuber divers explore a house submerged in deep waters, but their dive turns into a nightmare as the house reveals its atrocious past.

Directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury offer a unique take on the haunted house genre. The Deep House takes its time to get going, once the couple get to the submerged house it delivers some jump scares and creepy visuals, but Bustillo, Maury, Julien David and Rachel Parker offer a story we've seen on land many times before. Raphaël Gesqua's eerie, unnerving music and the sound design heighten the tension.

Camille Rowe is notable and offers screen presence, but like a lead singer of a band if you don't take to actor James Jagger voice you're in for a slog, as his tone carries much of the film's exposition and momentum in the third act.

Clearly a lot of work went on behind the scenes. Yes, the novel setting makes it entertaining. It's wonderfully filmed but the novelty wears off quickly, that said, you can't fault it for its ambition. Certainly from a technical level. However, imagine those countless underwater cave and shark survival horrors mixed with every haunted house film there is and you'll get the gist. The down beat finale offers grim horror viewing echoing the likes of 47 Metres Down, Open Water 3: Cage Dive or the Descent to name a few. But In true horror fashion (after the credits) there's a quick scene that sets up a sequel.

Overall, credit to Bustillo and Maury The Deep House is a technical marvel, but it's one of those films you'll either love or hate depending on how engaged you are by the concept and mixing of sub-horror genres.

2021's The Deep House is my latest write-up. Dug this French-produced movie and the title, well it's pretty self-explanatory.

So OK, let's not beat around the bush. The Deep House is a ghostly horror flick that will indeed give you the creeps. Its blueprint is a sadistic haunted house that lies meters down below a lake. Bona fide concept if I might say so myself. The lead actors are a little annoying at the beginning but you feel their suffering in the end. Yeah, for the majority of "House's" brief running time I was sent away with my knees knocking.

The Deep House is what you get when the films Paranormal Activity, The Blair Witch Project, The Descent, and 1989's The Abyss adopt a child. It's gotta be tough filming anything underwater and directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo go into the project with reckless aplomb. I'm thinking some professional divers did the diving and troupers James Jagger and Camilla Rowe did the emotive voice dubbing. If that's the case then those are some darn good dubs.

"House" builds a lot of collywobbles throughout until it bogs down a little bit by the third act. Don't worry, it's not a huge oversight. The Deep House is not jolt-happy mind you, just flat-out eerie. Maury and Bustillo are almost Hitchcockian in their approach. What you're waiting to see scares you as opposed to thrusting the horror and anguish at you right off the bat. The underwater mansion is the star and minus some occasional jittery camerawork, its callous images and hostel environment really suck you in. All that and the main characters have to worry about their level of oxygen, their level of normality, and well, the concept of the bends. Yeesh.

If you wait till after the closing credits, The Deep House provides one brief scene that you can interpret any way you want. By then I already had my recommendation in place. Safe "house".