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Underwater and underground(subterranean) films

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Submarine (1928 film) Submarine is a 1928 silent drama film directed by Frank Capra.

Submarine (1928 film)

It was produced by Harry Cohn for Columbia Pictures. This was Capra's first attempt to make an "A-picture. " Two sailor buddies have their friendship torn apart after the woman they both are in love with chooses one over the other. Their relationship gets re-evaluated when one of them becomes trapped in a submarine and the other gets sent on the rescue mission. Submarine allrovi/synopsis. The Descent Part 2. Tunnels in popular culture. Mysterious tunnels or "secret passages" are a common element of the local folklore tradition in the United Kingdom and the European continent.

Tunnels in popular culture

In Norwegian a secret tunnel-like passage is called a "lønngang" (lønn = "hidden / secret", and gang = passage) and in Swedish a "lönngång". Such tunnels are said to physically link prominent places such as country houses, castles, churches, ancient monuments and other, often medieval, buildings. Legends about the existence of secret tunnels usually involve improbably long subterranean passages, sometimes running under major obstacles such as rivers and lakes to reach their destinations. Religious buildings, monks and the landed gentry are particularly common elements in many tunnel stories. Subterranean fiction. Subterranean fiction is a subgenre of adventure fiction which focuses on underground settings, sometimes at the center of the Earth or otherwise deep below the surface.

Subterranean fiction

The genre is based on and has in turn influenced the Hollow Earth theory. The Rift (1989 film) An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with an experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the missing "Siren I".

The Rift (1989 film)

They trace the Siren I’s black box to an underwater rift where they discover that the company they are working for has been engaged in illegal genetic engineering experiments that have produced a number of different of mutant creatures. The Return of Captain Nemo. The Return of Captain Nemo was a 1978 science fiction TV movie directed by Alex March and Paul Stader, and loosely based on characters and settings from Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

The Return of Captain Nemo

It was written by six writers including Robert Bloch. During naval exercises in 1978 Captain Nemo (played by José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation aboard his submarine Nautilus beneath the Pacific Ocean. Revived by members of a modern day US Government agency, Nemo is persuaded to rescue United States interests and in so doing battle Professor Cunningham, a typical mad scientist played by Burgess Meredith. Not originally aired as a movie, it was broken into three parts, expanded somewhat with about 45 minutes of additional footage over the three episodes to become a very brief action series. Sometimes described as a "miniseries", it was intended to be the first story-arc in an ongoing serial. The film was a co-production between Irwin Allen Productions and Warner Bros. Aquanoids. Aquanoids is a 2003 horror film directed by Reinhart "Ray" Peschke.

Aquanoids

Plot[edit] In the year 1987, 17 people were killed by humanoid creatures called Aquanoids. These sea creatures seem to appear randomly and in the year 2003 return to Babylon Bay. Nazis at the Center of the Earth. Nazis at the Center of the Earth is a direct-to-video sci-fi film produced by The Asylum that stars Dominique Swain and Jake Busey.

Nazis at the Center of the Earth

It was released on 24 April 2012 on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. The UK release was called Bloodstorm.[1] The story shares similarities with the film Iron Sky. Plot[edit] A group of researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a platoon of gas-masked soldiers wearing swastika arm bands and dragged into a hidden environment in the center of the Earth. There, they discover that Dr. Cast[edit] Dominique Swain as Paige MorganJake Busey as Adrian ReistadJoshua Michael Allen as Lucas MossChristopher Karl Johnson as Dr. Production[edit] Lawson received the directorial assignment after reading the script and pitching himself as director in the fall of 2011. The entire movie was storyboarded by the director shot for shot before production began in November, 2011.

In his commentary director Joseph J. References[edit] External links[edit] Eye of the Beast (2007 film) Eye of the Beast is about a young scientist who goes to a small fishing town to fight against a creature living under the water.

Eye of the Beast (2007 film)

It is the 6th film in the Maneater Series.[1][2][3][4] James Van Der BeekAlexandra CastilloArne MacPhersonRyan Rajendra BlackBrian Edward RoachLarissa TobaccoKyra HarperKelly WolfmanRyland ThiessenRick SkeneSharon BajerBrooke PalssonBlake TaylorErik FjeldstedStephen Eric McIntyreGabriel DanielsAkulu MeekisAlicia JohnstonDaina LeitoldTom AnnikoAdriana O'Neil Official website. Graveyard Shift (1990 film) When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths.

Graveyard Shift (1990 film)

The link between the killings being that they all occurred between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. —the graveyard shift. The sadistic mill foreman (Stephen Macht) has chosen newly hired drifter John Hall (David Andrews) to help a group clean up the mill's rat-infested basement. The workers find a subterranean maze of tunnels leading to the cemetery—and a bear-sized, hairless, bat-like creature that hunts at night.

The Aquanauts - Igor Voznesensky (1979)