Deep Blood (1990)

Interesting facts

Deep Blood, also known as Sharks and Sangue negli abissi, is a 1989 Italian sharksploitation drama.

Production

Joe D'Amato met Raffaele Donato in 1975 on the set of Red Coats and used him repeatedly as an English dialogue coach. He encountered him again years later in the United States and hired him on Deep Blood because he needed someone who was fluent in English.

D'Amato said "(It was shot) in Florida mostly, though we did do a small part along the Mississippi River. (...) The actual underwater scenes though were shot in various places: at Ventotene, in a Roman swimming pool and in a New Orleans aquarium. We built a mechanical shark's head, and for the rest we used stock footage shots." The shark stock footage was bought from the National Geographic Society.

For a time, the film carried the working title Wakan. It was announced as Sharks (The Challenge) directed by "David Hills" (one of D'Amato's pseudonyms), but D'Amato stated that he finally decided to credit Rafaelle Donato for directing it, since he himself had already shot many films during that year and wanted to avoid it becoming apparent that he was doing everything himself.

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