Dead Sea

Do yourself a favour and don't bother.

I've watched some bad movies in my time', those sort of no brainers you go in knowing are going be bad like those on movies on the syfy channel, but jeez this is terrible. The only good thing about it is when it ends!

The acting is bad, the sound is bad, the filming is bad, and that stupid monster groan has no justification for being used at any point, it's beyond ridiculous.

I have seen better home movies shot on a iPhone!

If you paid to buy this I'd write to the makers and demand your money back, even if it was only 50 pence, it be worth the postage stamp for the principle of the matter!

Pro's: It ends.

Con's: It's boring, boring to the point of complete tedium.

The characters are the most, miserable, nasty and downright unlikable cast you will ever see. I literally wanted them ALL to die.

The effects, they're aren't any, a little bit of blood in the water and lump of rubber that jabs into a leg over and over as the camera shakes around all over the place, so you can't tell what you are looking at. You NEVER see the monster barring a quick flash of some kind of teeth in the last few minutes.

The plot, seriously, it actually does have a nice idea in there somewhere but the story just keeps jumping from one set of people in one location, to another set in another location, while trying to cleverly follow about 5 different story threads. It just becomes confusing and fails miserably. The actual monster plot takes up about 5 minutes of the whole film, the rest might just as well have been a dull family drama.

The camera work, sound and lighting in this film are dreadful. Shaky camera work, bad lighting and sound that at some points, is so low that you can't hear anything and then in other parts, it's loud and bellowing.

The artwork for the poster is misleading and the people named on the poster are only in it for a few minutes. James Duvall must have about 2 or 3 minutes of screen time, it's ridiculous.

All in all a really dull, boring and poorly made, horror (sniggers) film. Avoid!

I'm not sure if I watched the same movie as the other people on this comment section or people have no taste in movies anymore, or these people work for the production company but this film is "just bad". The comments and trailer makes it out to be this great monster movie. It was just a mess, the writing, the acting, the effects the lack of scares, or lack there of, and the guy from Ghost Hunters Britt Griffith should be banned from acting because I have seen boards act in a more exciting manner than he did. The story is all over the place from a action to a bad, bad B movie horror flick. I just did not get any of it and I think I even dosed off a couple of time during it. A sea monster showing up every 30 years? Does he have a clock and a calender? I really should have turned it off after the first 15 minutes but I figured maybe, just maybe it would get better but it never did. The poster kinda resembles Piranha and who ever put together the trailer I give the one star because they got me to watch this trash. Otherwise the movie just stinks of bad rotten sea monster.Oh and by the way where was the monster? I was waiting for his or her grand entrance but all I got is a few peeks and some groaning, roaring or whatever the sound crew had in their short list of monster sounds. If you want to watch a move about the water then you can watch this move because it stinks like dead fish.

Very poor filming with sound bites not constant. The movie has little or no story line or character development. Needless drawn out moments do not build any suspense or contribute to the plot. The music and background soundtrack music is fair - the only kind word I can say about the entire movie. Not sure what the United Stated soldiers in 2002 Iraq Desert Storm action bit was about at the beginning of the movie unless it to build some mojo in some of the lead charters - if it did, it failed completely. Little or no suspense or even a suspense build up. How does such a big creature go unnoticed in a confined clear water lake? The science is not believable or supportive of the plot. The feature creature is non-show. A dreadful ending. Do I need to say more.....?

Right, well I have to admit that I was lured in by the movie's cover. I mean, a woman walking in chest-deep water and with unseen tentacles lurking beneath the surface of the water, well that seemed interesting to me.

But the movie was definitely nothing like I had expected it to be. And it most certainly was nothing like what the movie's cover indicated. Instead we are treated to a movie that jumps between different story arches, and none of them proved particularly interesting. I cannot honestly fathom what writer and director Brandon Slagle was trying to accomplish with this movie. The narrative was all over the place, and it was a confusing mess of a narrative, which made little sense.

The acting performances in the movie were fair, but nothing outstanding or memorable. And the only cast member I was familiar with was James Duval, and he was hardly in the movie at all.

If you enjoy thrillers, do yourself a massive favor and stay well clear of "Dead Sea". It quite simply isn't worth the time of day.

The effects in the movie were bland. They were passable, sure, but hardly anything worthwhile writing home about.

This movie was a huge swing and a miss. And it is without a doubt not a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time, as it was quite a struggle to sit through it the first time. You know that when a movie is written, directed and starring the one and the same person, it is going to be a questionable affair, and "Dead Sea" was one such instance.

My rating of writer and director Brandon Slagle's 2014 movie "Dead Sea" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.