Film Review: Leviathon George P. Cosmatos manager had a short career having made only ten films in four decades with Shadow Conspiracy in 1997 being his last film. With Leviathan (1989) Cosmatos was ending a career in a high score (Tombstone 93 would be a cap on his career).
Leviathan is the story of a mining facility submarine comes into contact with a ship sunk Russian who seems to have been sunk on purpose. The crew return to their facilities with a safe that there may be a reason for the vessel to be there but found nothing but a bottle alcoholic they believe to be innocent. Unbeknownst to them the ball harbors a genetic experiment goes wrong. When several crew members drinking the ball they are infected with an organism that takes over their bodies slowly transform into creatures whose sole purpose is to survive and spread. Conducted by Steven Beck (Peter Weller) the remaining crew must find a way to survive in the presence of the creature before the creature kills everyone in the ship.
After a short time after the release of Deep Star Six earlier this year (1989), Leviathan is a horror film that action increased only $ 15.7 million. It is cast consisted of Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson, and Meg Foster, to name a few. It was a breath taking photo Alex Thomson, who made history with Labyrinth and Legend and who later worked on Alien 3 & Cliffhanger, just to name a few. This film is no different than places submarines and mining facility itself become a character and the real prison from which the characters find themselves trapped.
Leviathan is a suspense filled ride from start to finish in the tradition of earlier films Cosmaos' Cobra, of unknown origin, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Tombstone, and that one of the best horror movies real submarine since Jaws.
Posted on June 9, 2010.
