Two YouTuber divers explore a house submerged in deep waters, but their dive turns into a nightmare as the house reveals its atrocious past.
Directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury offer a unique take on the haunted house genre. The Deep House takes its time to get going, once the couple get to the submerged house it delivers some jump scares and creepy visuals, but Bustillo, Maury, Julien David and Rachel Parker offer a story we've seen on land many times before. Raphaël Gesqua's eerie, unnerving music and the sound design heighten the tension.
Camille Rowe is notable and offers screen presence, but like a lead singer of a band if you don't take to actor James Jagger voice you're in for a slog, as his tone carries much of the film's exposition and momentum in the third act.
Clearly a lot of work went on behind the scenes. Yes, the novel setting makes it entertaining. It's wonderfully filmed but the novelty wears off quickly, that said, you can't fault it for its ambition. Certainly from a technical level. However, imagine those countless underwater cave and shark survival horrors mixed with every haunted house film there is and you'll get the gist. The down beat finale offers grim horror viewing echoing the likes of 47 Metres Down, Open Water 3: Cage Dive or the Descent to name a few. But in true horror fashion (after the credits) there's a quick scene that sets up a sequel.
Overall, credit to Bustillo and Maury The Deep House is a technical marvel, but it's one of those films you'll either love or hate depending on how engaged you are by the concept and mixing of sub-horror genres.
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