American history students Ben (James Jagger) and Tina (Camille Rowe) have made a trip to France to explore some extra-creepy places for their YouTube channel in hopes to eventually make some money from it. And one of their ideas was to do a show about a village that has been flooded some decades ago for a dam project. Thing is, the lake that has taken the place of the village has become a tourist hotspot, plut Ben and Tina have to learn that village as actually been levelled before being flooded. But then they meet local Pierre (Eric Savin), who tells them about one house that was still in perfect condition when flooded, and takes our heroes to a remote spot where they can dive for said house. And Ben and Tina sure come prepared with the latest in terms of diving equipment, including intercom and an underwater drone. Once underwater then, they have to realize the house is all bolted, as if someone didn't want for others to get in, but in their eagerness they find a way. But the further they get into the house, the creepier it gets, including traces of Satanic rituals and hints at kidnappings, until they find two corpses all chained up and wearing archaic torture masks in the basement, as well as a collection of severed bodyparts. Ben and Tina try to bolt, but their flight comes to a sudden halt when they find the window they came in all walled up. And then the chained up corpses seem to come to life - and with our heroes basically walled in, that's not at all a good thing ...

One just has to utterly commend this movie for its being shot at least 90% under water, and still managing to tell a very coherent story. And fortunately, a decision was made to not film this found footage style (though there's still more than the usual amount of POV shots) but using very decent camerawork - except for some of the finale I have to admit, that just left one confused. And there are many nice moments in The Deep House as well, though at all the film relies a bit too much on jump scares, basically because it takes too much time to build up to its finale, which means the suspense that's initially there fades away after a while as nothing but a few fake scares happen for the longest time. The film's still well worth a watch as its underwater photography is pretty wonderful, and the diving scenes alone already add something special to the proceedings, it's just that the whole thing quite honestly could have been structured better.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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