For some reason in 1989 the world just decided it was
obsessed with deep sea diving and exploration. This was the year that gave us The Abyss, DeepStar Six, The Evil Below, Lords of the Deep, The Rift,
and today’s topic Leviathan. Now for most folks that list probably
seems pretty obscure aside from James Cameron’s The Abyss but chances are if you grew up in the era of video rental
stores chances are you know quite a few of those entries by sight if not by
name. Almost all of these deep-sea
base films had a very unique and similar box art design, which is actually how
I stumbled on Leviathan as a choice
for this review. That was just
nature of rental video in the days before the immediate reward and no risk
structure of streaming. This also
means that even when you’re talking about low-rent video rental scifi horror
like Leviathan you can count on it to
at least look good and be bonkers in all the right places.
