Deadwater starts in Saudi Arabia where the USS battleship Nimitz is docked, Colonel John Willets (Lance Henriksen) arrives on-board & meets up with Commander Combs to receive his orders. Willets is only six months away from retirement but is needed for one last mission, Combs explains that a ship commissioned by the CIA for black ops interrogation has fallen out of contact with no word from the crew or the terrorist they were holding. Willets & his team of SEALs find the ship in the Persian Gulf near Iranian waters, they board they ship & find the entire crew seemingly slaughtered except for Willets son Colin (Gary Stretch) who has no idea what happened, why the rest of the crew is dead or why he is still alive. With no sign of the terrorist Willets assumes that he was responsible but it soon becomes clear that dark forces at work on the ship, dark supernatural wartime forces that have stayed hidden for decades but has been woken by brutal violence...
Photographed, co-written, co-produced & directed by Roel Reiné this is also known under the titles Black Ops & here in the UK it's called Nazi Dawn on DVD, whatever name you watch it under this really isn't that good. The script uses the haunted ship idea also seen in the likes of Death Ship (1980) & Ghost Ship (2002) but manages to be worse that both, the script takes itself very seriously & there's not much fun to be had here at all. The mixing of horror, thriller, supernatural & Nazi themes are handled with dull aplomb. The only thing I can really remember about Deadwater is that there are lots of scenes of people walking around very dark corridors which gets very repetitive & very boring very quickly. The script tries to throw in some nonsense about Nazi's & them creating some ultimate weapon & has a confusing twist ending that is both underwhelming & relies on seemingly random flashbacks & sound-bites from earlier in the film that made no great sense to me & while I sort of understand what happened there's not much logic behind it & it could have been explained better. At 90 odd minutes Deadwater feels longer & I got quite bored, it's just people wandering around an extremely dark ship with a fairly mundane supernatural mystery element that never interested me or drew me into the story. I just thought Deadwater was a routine, low budget supernatural horror thriller with a weak script that could have been half decent but it's all so forgettable & dull.
I assume this was filmed on a real ship as the locations look good even if it's often so dark it's hard to make out any real detail. There's some blood splatter, a few dead bodies are seen & a few severed limbs but all of the gore is after the fact with no on screen kills that I can remember at all. There's nothing that creepy or scary here & the supernatural force has no great reason behind it, why possess that guy at the end? Why not just kill all the black ops like the previous crew? Why didn't that terrorist guy reveal the major plot twist if he was there at the start & saw everything?
With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 Deadwater looks slick enough I suppose & is well made, apparently filmed aboard the S.S. Lane Victory in San Pedro in Los Angeles. The acting is alright from a fairly bland cast, veteran actor Lance Henriksen as usual manages to turn in a better performance that the material deserves.
Deadwater is a forgettable haunted ship supernatural horror thriller that I didn't think was much good, a muddled plot that tries to be mysterious & a lack of any memorable moments sink it. Watch Death Ship or Ghost Ship again instead.
Photographed, co-written, co-produced & directed by Roel Reiné this is also known under the titles Black Ops & here in the UK it's called Nazi Dawn on DVD, whatever name you watch it under this really isn't that good. The script uses the haunted ship idea also seen in the likes of Death Ship (1980) & Ghost Ship (2002) but manages to be worse that both, the script takes itself very seriously & there's not much fun to be had here at all. The mixing of horror, thriller, supernatural & Nazi themes are handled with dull aplomb. The only thing I can really remember about Deadwater is that there are lots of scenes of people walking around very dark corridors which gets very repetitive & very boring very quickly. The script tries to throw in some nonsense about Nazi's & them creating some ultimate weapon & has a confusing twist ending that is both underwhelming & relies on seemingly random flashbacks & sound-bites from earlier in the film that made no great sense to me & while I sort of understand what happened there's not much logic behind it & it could have been explained better. At 90 odd minutes Deadwater feels longer & I got quite bored, it's just people wandering around an extremely dark ship with a fairly mundane supernatural mystery element that never interested me or drew me into the story. I just thought Deadwater was a routine, low budget supernatural horror thriller with a weak script that could have been half decent but it's all so forgettable & dull.
I assume this was filmed on a real ship as the locations look good even if it's often so dark it's hard to make out any real detail. There's some blood splatter, a few dead bodies are seen & a few severed limbs but all of the gore is after the fact with no on screen kills that I can remember at all. There's nothing that creepy or scary here & the supernatural force has no great reason behind it, why possess that guy at the end? Why not just kill all the black ops like the previous crew? Why didn't that terrorist guy reveal the major plot twist if he was there at the start & saw everything?
With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 Deadwater looks slick enough I suppose & is well made, apparently filmed aboard the S.S. Lane Victory in San Pedro in Los Angeles. The acting is alright from a fairly bland cast, veteran actor Lance Henriksen as usual manages to turn in a better performance that the material deserves.
Deadwater is a forgettable haunted ship supernatural horror thriller that I didn't think was much good, a muddled plot that tries to be mysterious & a lack of any memorable moments sink it. Watch Death Ship or Ghost Ship again instead.