Into The Deep (2025) Movie Review - The Most Boring Shark Movie Ever

Welcome to Knockout Horror. Today we are taking a look at a shark themed horror that is new for 2025 – Into The Deep. This movie follows the story of a group of tourists on a diving expedition. Being kidnapped by modern day pirates and forced to dive for booty in shark infested waters. Yes… Really. That is the plot.

It’s Not Looking Good

Into The Deep has all the hallmarks of a movie that is going to be complete arse wash. Sharks, a low budget, and a starring role for Scout Taylor-Compton. Now it’s not that Scout Taylor-Compton is a bad actor. She’s, actually, fairly competent and her career had, at one time, quite a lot of promise. It’s just that she frequently seems to sign on to star in absolutely awful horror flicks.

Captive, Bury The Bride, Feral. She kinda just gravitates towards these turd piles like a moth to flames or a fly to.. Well, you get what I am saying. Hard to hate the hustle but I do tend to use her name as a barometer for what to expect. Into The Deep is no exception.

This movie is, actually, kind of tough to review because I mentally checked out early on. The promise of bikinis, sharks, and pirates sounds like a good time but Into The Deep manages to find a way to make it an, almost, punitive experience. Punishing you for every second that you stick with it rather than wandering off to do something else.

Worse Than Bad.. Boringly Bad

One thing worse than simply being bad, when it comes to horror, is to be bad and boring. A lot of awful horror movies get a pass thanks to being fun. That is not the case with Into The Deep. Director Christian Sesma has managed to turn this into an absolute chore from start to finish. It becomes clear, very early on, that the plot is thread bare. In reality, the movie should have started with the pirates forcing the tourists to dive for treasure. As it stands, it starts with some pointless character building and world developing.

The big problem there is who cares? Who cares about this world and these characters? They are unimportant, in the grand scheme of things. Let’s get to diving for booty. We can all sympathise with the situation the characters find themselves in. Most humans display, at least, basic levels of empathy so we don’t need to relate, personally, to the people in this predicament.

I can’t shake the feeling that the majority of these scenes are only there to shoehorn in shark movie legend Richard Dreyfuss. Dreyfuss has been pretty heavily involved in the shark preservation cause for quite awhile, now. He appears in Into The Deep as a character in flashbacks who chews more scenery than the sharks themselves. Also appearing in the credits to talk about sharks. Seems like a pretty interesting idea to advocate for sharks in a movie that depicts them as ruthless, evil, killing machines.

Weak Throughout

Needless to say, there are few moments where Into The Deep shines. Dialogue is particularly weak. With some of the interactions between the pirates and the tourists feeling hilariously stupid thanks to a very poor script. Outside of Taylor-Compton’s Cassidy who, at least, has some semblance of a personality. Most of the other characters are so bland as to be completely forgettable. The only other person who stood out was purely due to the fact that she spent the entire movie with her naked arse planted right in the centre of the shot.

Special effects are extremely weak. Something that you come to expect from these types of movies. Shark attack scenes feature a stark disconnect between the thing doing the attacking and the person being attacked. It all looks rather cheap and a bit strange. Pacing is incredibly laborious. Making the 90 minute runtime feel even longer than it already is. The story is absolutely packed full of low points with barely a single scene that genuinely grips you. And the camera work is a bit of a travesty, if I am being honest. How do you shoot in a beautiful location and not indulge in the scenery?

Should You Watch Into The Deep?

Absolutely not. You should not watch Into the Deep. These low budget shark movies often turn out to be some of the worst movies around. Into The Deep takes it to another level by being, not only, bad but, also, extremely boring. Overly long, poorly acted, dull, monotonous, repetitive, trope heavy, poorly filmed and with terrible special effects. There is absolutely nothing here to recommend. I doubt even fans of bad shark movies will find a single thing to like. An early contender for worst movie of 2025.

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