Up from the Depths
“Your vacation is about to end!!!”
1979•R•1h 25m•3.7•Released
Horror
The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber. The fish voraciously helps itself to a tourist buffet. Now it is open season for the local fishermen to find and kill the creature.
Director
Charles B. Griffith
Writer
Alfred M. Sweeney, Anne Dyer
Languages
English
Studio
New World Pictures
Cast
Sam Bottoms
Greg Oliver
Susanne Reed
Rachel McNamara
Virgil Frye
Earl Sullivan
Kedric Wolfe
Oscar Forbes
Charles Howerton
Dr. David Whiting
Denise Hayes
Iris Lee
Chuck Doherty
Ed Bennett
Helen McNeely
Louellen Bennett
Ken Metcalfe
Mr. Holland
Randy Taylor
Jimmy
Dave D'Martyn
Tourist #1
Clem Persons
Maintenance Man (as Clem Parsons)
Peter Cooper
Nieberg
Katherine Scholy
Darleen
Ken Petruic
Harry
Production
Company
New World Pictures
Producer
Cirio H. Santiago
Producer
Roger Corman
Recommended
6
Jaws 2
1978
6.5
Primate
2026
5.9
Into the Deep
2025
6.5
Dangerous Animals
2025
7.7
Jaws
1975
6
Deep Blue Sea
1999
6.6
The Devil's Mouth
2026
6.4
Sweetheart
2019
6.4
Shivers
1975
6.2
No Way Up
2024
6
April Fool's Day
1986
7.2
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
6.2
Splinter
2008
6.2
Body Snatchers
1993
6
The Last Breath
2024
6.1
Thrash
2026
5.8
47 Meters Down
2017
5.9
The Grudge
2004
6.3
Do Not Enter
2026
6.4
Die Alone
2024
Similar Movies
5.5
Open Water 2: Adrift
2006
5.8
Indigenous
2014
4.7
Great White
1998
5.5
Open Water
2004
6
Deep Blue Sea
1999
6.7
Zombie Flesh Eaters
1979
4.5
Shark Waters
2022
5
Shark Side of the Moon
2022
6.2
Lisa and the Devil
1973
5.9
Into the Deep
2025
6
Jaws 2
1978
4.1
Jaws: The Revenge
1987
7.7
Jaws
1975
5.9
Black Water
2008
5.8
Hatchet
2006
4.1
Red Water
2003
5.6
Toxic Shark
2017
5.9
The Ruins
2008
4.3
Cam2Cam
2014
5.5
Turistas
2006