Lords of the Deep

Lords of the Deep (1989)

The ultimate underwater adventure!

Man has finally conquered the ocean. America's first self-contained undersea laboratory is the pride of the nation, and expectations are high for an elaborate undersea mining operation. What wasn't expected was the inhabitants of an undiscovered world.

Date of release
1989-06-02
TMDB
3.3 / 10 (46)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Science Fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Director
Mary Ann Fisher

Casting

Interesting facts

Lords of the Deep is a 1989 American science-fiction horror film co-produced by Roger Corman and starring Bradford Dillman and Priscilla Barnes, about an underwater colony being attacked by alien life forms.

Production

The movie was announced in 1982. In 1989 Roger Corman said:

I had a first draft script, didn't like it, and put it on the shelf. About a year ago I brought it back, because I had some new ideas. Weirdly enough, the biggest of the underwater films is being done by my ex-assistants, producer Gale Hurd and Jim Cameron. We'll be out well ahead of them, however.

Director Mary Ann Fisher was a long time employee of Roger Corman. She was in charge of his studio in Venice and worked on such films as Battle Beyond the Stars, Forbidden World, Space Riders and Love Letters.

Filming took place in Los Angeles in November 1988.

Future two-time Academy Award winner Janusz Kamiński served as the director of photography on the second unit crew for about two weeks of the four-week shooting schedule, in what was one of his first movies as a director of photography. According to a crew member who was present during production, Kamiński's footage was simply "too good" and did not match up well with the first-unit footage.

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