Deep Blue Sea

I'm catching up on scary movies this month, and I barely recall seeing ads for Deep Blue Sea in the 90s. The only big names are LL Cool J and Samuel L. Jackson, but it's still a pretty entertaining, suspenseful shark attack thriller. I bet it was rad on the big screen!

The premise was popular enough for two sequels, but I think it would be hard to improve on the original. Samuel L. Jackson plays a businessman who sinks millions into a special project involving shark brains to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. As you can imagine, science goes awry in the search for a cure and the sharks turn on their human masters, rawr!

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Final Destination

So, there were some movies in the 1990s I passed over because movie-going was rather expensive at the time and I was also a total snob and felt some genres were beneath me. A teen horror flick? Yeah, I was too old and mature for that. Final Destination actually was released in 2000 and stars Devon Sawa as Alex, a teenage boy who disrupts fate for a teacher and six classmates.

Apparently the story is based on a spec X-Files script and at about 1.5 hours, I can totally see it as an expanded TV episode. I think I would have found the movie scary if I was an actually 2000s-era teenager. I would have found it pretty laughable even if I watched it when it was released. It has the same vibe as Ghost in the Machine where people are killed in some pretty bizarre ways and I loved that John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" was used a foreshadowing element. The movie was more funny than scary to me, but it was entertaining, so there's always that.

Final Destination spawned five sequels and I think I'm good with just the original movie, unless I need something playing in the background, LOL!

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