Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

TheLittleSongbird I saw The Thing Below as, regardless of a movie's reputation, genre, age or how it looks, I've always believed in giving movies a fair chance. I had nothing else to do so I went ahead and watched it anyway. Having sat through the whole thing, I honestly wish I hadn't and am surprised that I even made it to the end. Even when giving it a fair chance, The Thing Below is still one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time, can't even remember the last time when I saw a movie with no redeeming values whatsoever, and possibly even ever. An obvious starting point in summing up what was wrong with The Thing Below(which is enough to fill an essay on how not to make a movie) would be the technical values. The interiors and lighting look very drab and the editing choppy. There are scenes as well that look as though they were edited from other movies and very clumsily too. The special effects actually look as though they were thrown into the movie at last minute through desperation with a very unfinished look to them. Other commentators have said that some of the worst special effects they've ever seen are in The Thing Below, and I really cannot argue against that. The sound effects manage to be both muddied and bizarre, while the music was so dull and generic that I can't even remember it. There is absolutely nothing believable in the dialogue either, there is so much cheesiness and awkwardness that it is enough to make your toes curl. In regards to the story it is highly derivative, but considering that this is hardly the first movie to have this problem I can kind of temporarily forgive it. But the cobbled-together structure, cringe-worthy parody-like approach to scenes, sluggish pacing and a complete lack of atmosphere, suspense and thrills I cannot forgive. Every character is underwritten and obnoxious, even the beginning had scientists behaving in a mind-numbingly stupid way. The titular monster was not menacing or memorable in the slightest, the movie doing absolutely nothing to develop it, its terrible design being the least of its problems. While a lot of the actors don't seem to have a clue what type of movie they are in, throughout there is a very strange mix of over-earnestness and disengaged blandness and it was really painful to sit through. To conclude, an extremely poor movie with nothing to recommend at all. 0/10 Bethany Cox

Theo Robertson I feel the need to justify myself by saying that there was absolutely nothing on and found myself watching the SyFy channel . I wasn't expecting because we are talking about the SyFy Channel and was intrigued by SEA GHOST ( That's the title it was broadcast under ) and if I didn't like it I could always share my opinion on it with my faceless peers on IMDb . Unfortunately if I'd visited this page before seeing this dreadful piece of excrement I might have saved myself two hours of my life that I will never get back The bizarre thing is that SEA GHOST gets off to ... well I won't use the word " good " but it does seduce the audience in to thinking it might be better than it really is as the early scenes features a group of scientists examining some alien DNA they've found under the ocean surface . Suddenly the DNA comes to life and attacks the scientists . I say DNA but perhaps CGI would be a better expression since it's obvious how the effect is achieved . SEA GHOST contains perhaps the worse CGI I've ever seen in a film and I've seen a lot of movies on the SyFy Channel and this goes way beyond bad as an alien tentacle resembles something out of a kids cartoon . Things get even worse as it's revealed that the cartoonish CGI is only the second worst thing about the movie What really makes SEA GHOST stick out from its mediocre fellows is the lack of a focused storytelling genre. I thought I'd be watching the tried and trusted formula of a CGI monster chasing scientists around a ship but this isn't how it plays out . The scientists are killed off and new characters are brought in to carry the story . As the story continues there's scenes that belong in a totally different film . We get some soft porn , a Western sequence complete with the man with no name and an action scene set in Iraq . This is explained by a character stating something along the lines of " The alien must be able to read our thoughts and give us intense hallucinations " SEA GHOST is a film that gives the audience the impression that it's being written as it's going along . One is left perplex at the number of scenes that feel as if they've wandered in from a different genre never mind a different film . One wonders if the often laughable and inept CGI is either a symptom or the cause for the way the narrative constantly changes structure

Paul Andrews The Thing Below starts aboard a US Naval ship called the Semenza which is transporting a top secret alien specimen to Maryland during a tropical storm which causes an accident & the alien organism to escape & cause a catastrophic explosion & sinking the Semenza. The top brass & the president back in Washington start crapping themselves as another alien specimen still remains on the Sea Ghosy, a top secret Government oil-rig that has been used for deep sea drilling in search of a new energy source. Sensing the potential danger a team of sailors come hard as nails mercenaries lead by Captain Jack Griffith (Billy Warlock) are dispatched to the oil-rig to assess the situation & clean up as necessary, joining them is scientist Anna Davis (Catherine Lough Haggquist) & slimy back stabbing Government man Dean Rieser (Peter Graham-Gaudreau). Once on the rig they find the alien creature loose & it has a taste for human flesh...This straight to video piece of crap Canadian produced sci-fi horror film had the working title It Waits Below, was shown on cable TV as Sea Ghost, was bizarrely pitched as a sequel to Ghost Rig (2003) here in the UK & was retitled & released on DVD as Ghost Rig 2: The Legend of the Sea Ghost & was released on video in the US as The Thing Below which was executive produced under the name Noble Henry & directed by Jim Wynorski under one of his other many alternate names Jay Andrews & to be quite frank is utterly awful both conceptually & technically. The whole film feels so lame & just randomly cobbles together all sorts of plot points from other much better sci-fi horror films such as The Intruder Within (1981), The Thing (1982) & Aliens (1986) & is so bad that out of the three people it took to write this god-awful crap one went uncredited & the other two hide under pseudonym's like Wynorski did. There are so many plot holes it's just not funny, I mean this alien creature is known to emit radiation so strong that it could kill 100 men yet the greatest scientific minds the US Government can conjure up decide to put it in a glass tube so weak it breaks when dropped on the floor, why does this alien creature spend so much time & effort creating elaborate hallucination's for it's victims when it could quite easily just kill them straight away which it eventually does anyway, why can the creature seemingly change size & shape at will, why does the US Government insist on sending in a team that know nothing of what's going on, wouldn't it help if they did know at least a little bit about what was going on & what they might end up having to face? Also before I run out of space there's loads of clichés like the unearthed alien, a bunch of character's trapped with it on a remote location, Government cover-ups & conspiracies are thrown in here & the makers even have the nerve to set-up a sequel with an awful twist ending (that comes after the awful ending in which the alien takes human form, speaks perfect English & explains itself & it's origins to the survivors for some reason) that left me worried that one might actually emerge one day. The Thing Below is simply awful, it's overlong at over 90 minutes, the film suddenly switches genre from sci-fi monster film to low rent porn to cheap western to so bad it's laughable drama to an action war film set in Iraq(!) that destroys any sort of flow the film might have built up.So the script, pacing, narrative, logic & flow of The Thing Below is awful but the pain doesn't stop there as besides conceptually The Thing Below is also technically abysmal too. For a start there are scenes from other films edited into The Thing Below, & badly edited too as they don't match the footage shot for the film itself anyway. The most recognisable footage is stolen from Virus (1999), not that it matches as the footage used is of the boat tugging a barge along which disappears between certain shots. Footage from Deep Evil (2004) is also badly edited into the film. Ther also seems to be lots of annoying stock footage of US army ships & helicopters taking off used as well. I suppose I should mention the CGI computer effects which are notable only because they are some of the worst ever committed to celluloid, they really are that awful. The alien has no discernible shape or size & the best I can figure out looks like a blob with tentacles. There's not much gore here, there's a shot of a tentacle going into someone's stomach & exiting through their mouth & someone is shot through the head & that's it. There's an impromptu strip scene which comes of nowhere.The IMDb reckons this had a budget of about $1,500,000, well I don't believe that for a second as I just cannot see where that money would have went & since the CGI effects are amongst the worst I have ever seen & there's plenty of footage stolen from other sources edited in here I just don't see The Thing Below having anything like that sort of money spent on it. Filmed in British Columbie in Canada the production value are poor, it's not scary & did anyone else notice how Rieser just stands in exactly the same spot on that boat for the first fort odd minutes? The acting sucks & the fact ex-Baywatch (1989-2001) bloke Billy Warlock is the star says everything.The Thing Below or under whatever title you see it is simply terrible, it's OK for a laugh or two but is that really worth sitting though one of the worst written sci-fi monster films ever made? I'd say no. Simple really, don't bother.

adriennemdavid **Spoilers ahead** This movie is retarded, the actors, director, and whoever did the special effects should be sent to a desert island forever. They throw in a nude scene with a porn star throwing her gigantic breasts around and pouring oil on herself in a room full of fire. This is probably where all the budget for the special effects went. The awful acting, pathetic CGI and the stupid storyline make this the worst waste of 94 minutes ever.But the movie is a lot of fun if you like to make fun of movies mystery science theater style.Anyone who gave this movie more than 1 star is too generous. Run and hide.