Release Date: 17 March 1989
Run Time: 103 minutes
Origin: USA
Mimi's Rating: 3 1/2 goopy tentacles out of 5
I know this movie "borrows" heavily from films like Alien and The Thing but... I still love it!
Leviathan follows an undersea mining crew (a stacked cast that includes: Peter Weller, Daniel Stern, and Ernie Hudson) who discover a Soviet shipwreck, the Leviathan. As you would expect, this creepy wreck unleashes a mutagen that begins to turn the crew into goopy, tentacled monsters. Will the remaining crew escape their underwater prison? Find out in: Leviathan!
I supposed it would be fair to call this movie a rip-off of more popular films in the genre, and yes it has its problems (the pace can be a bit slow at times) but I guess I'm just a sucker for great-looking sci-fi sets and slime covered rubber monsters because I kind of loved this. There's a great cast of 80s B-listers, the aforementioned sets are lovely to look at, and there's something about underwater horror that just hits different.
Why you should watch:
Like me, you're a sucker for practical creature effects and awesome lived-in-looking sets.
You don't mind a slower-paced movie.
Why you shouldn't watch:
You like your movies to move a bit quicker.
You don't like body horror.